POSTED BY MARTIN KICH 1. The Board of Trustees appointed a Special, Independent Working Group (“Working Group”) to oversee an independent investigation of allegations that Coach Urban Meyer failed to act appropriately regarding alleged abuse by Zach Smith of his former wife and related allegations that he misrepresented his knowledge of the alleged events at the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Reuters reports that the University of North Florida in Jacksonville has announced that “it had determined after ‘careful consideration’ that the Confucius Institute, which opened a branch there in 2014 to promote language and culture, did not meet the university’s mission”: “‘After reviewing the classes, activities and events sponsored over the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is a follow-up to Hank Reichman’s post on the news coverage of the most recent debacle at the University of Akron. John McNay, the President of the Ohio Conference, wrote a letter to the Akron administration that found its way into an article by Amanda Garrett published in the Beacon-Journal.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Almost lost in all of the attention to the special congressional election in Ohio’s 12th district has been a major push-back against the Right’s attacks on union rights. Voters in Missouri repealed, by an overwhelmingly majority in a referendum, the right-to-work statute that had been passed by the GOP dominated legislature.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This item is a news update from the Boston Globe that was distributed today: White people need to stop reinforcing the stereotype that White people are not just stupid but ridiculously so. If I feel that I need to apologize for being White, it is because some people seem almost willfully…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for Euronews, Cristina Abellan Matamoros, Natalia Oelsner, and Marta Rodriguez have reported that a Venezuelan professor’s tweet showing the cracked soles of his shoes and explaining that it will cost him four months wages just to have them repaired has gone viral. The English translation is: “I’m not embarrassed to…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH http://bostonreview.net/race/stephen-kantrowitz-white-supremacy-has-always-been-mainstream https://bostonreview.net/race-law-justice/clarence-harlan-orsi-concerned-citizens. http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/robin-d-g-kelley-births-nation. http://bostonreview.net/race/ruha-benjamin-black-afterlives-matter. http://bostonreview.net/race/ed-pavlic/baldwins-lonely-country. http://bostonreview.net/forum/walter-johnson-to-remake-the-world.
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH About a week ago, Nicole Williams contributed a short article to the CNN website with the title “He Just Graduated from College and Wants to Be an Astrophysicist. Oh, and He’s 11.” William Maillis (photo below) has received his Associate in Arts degree from St. Petersburg College in Florida. He’s planning…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the lack of both unified and resonant messaging by candidates on the Progressive side of the ideological spectrum. I personally think that the lack of resonant messaging is much more important, especially in these off-year elections. But here are three examples of very…