The failed effort to hire Kathleen McElroy, a journalism professor who ultimately turned down what she said was a watered-down offer, has revealed wide divisions at the school over diversity.
Tag: Black People
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Alabama Lawmakers Decline to Create New Majority-Black Congressional District
Republican lawmakers pushed through a new congressional map a month after the Supreme Court ruled that the state’s existing map diluted the power of Black voters.
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DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida’s New Standards for Black History
In one benchmark, middle schoolers would learn that enslaved Americans developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”
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The History of the Lynching Site Where Jason Aldean Filmed ‘Try That in a Small Town’
Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black man, was hanged outside the Maury County Courthouse in Tennessee in 1927 after he was falsely accused of attacking a white girl.
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Abby Phillip on Jesse Jackson’s Political Legacy
His runs for president are best remembered for moral imperatives and policy prescriptions that seem prescient compared with those of today’s Democratic Party.