Tag: civil rights
4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong – why The Onion’s defence...
Stephen Skalicky, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
If you’ve read, watched and enjoyed the work of...
The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before...
Roy Jones, Clemson University
When it comes to the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme...
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to Supreme Court nomination was paved by...
Sharon D. Wright Austin, University of Florida
Just five women and two African Americans, both men, are among the...
Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil...
Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of the...
How high school sports became the latest battleground over transgender rights
Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This year, 20 states proposed to ban transgender girls – meaning those assigned male at birth but who...
How Joe Biden did so well in Georgia
Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs
For nearly 30 years, the state of Georgia has voted reliably Republican in presidential elections. Not since...
Countries around the world are using border surveillance systems against their...
Keren Weitzberg, UCL
Hamdi was just an infant when his relatives first brought him to the Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya to be registered...
John Lewis traded the typical college experience for activism, arrests and...
Jelani M. Favors, Clayton State University
As an 18-year-old student attending a training session for activists at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, John...
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Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change...
Keith M. Bellizzi, University of Connecticut
“Facts First” is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends that...
