The moderator at the 2022 General Assembly asked the people who made the statements to Eastern students and staff to come forward a second time on Monday morning. By Tuesday, one commissioner had come forward and personally apologized for making statements about “slave labor,” which he said was meant as a joke. Another apologized for the conflict with the staff […]
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A new biography maps out the moral tensions that tormented his mind and tainted his legacy. Book details Buy on: Amazon Publisher: Yale University Press (May 10, 2022) Language: English Hardcover: 320 pages ISBN-10: 0300250061 ISBN-13: 978-0300250060 Item Weight: 1.31 pounds Dimensions: 6.52 x 1.16 x 9.51 inches Thomas Jefferson continues to inspire […]
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The leading black Christian body in the UK has expressed its “shock and deeply felt outrage” over the treatment of a 15-year-old black schoolgirl who was strip searched by police. Child Q was removed from an exam and searched by officers after she was wrongly suspected by teachers of possessing cannabis. The search of Child Q was undertaken by officers […]
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A specter is haunting America, one of centuries-old pathologies never structurally addressed. When the 2020 black lives matter protests began, following the police killing of an unarmed man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, it should have been a domestic crisis. Instead, the outrage following Floyd’s death, compounded by the scandal-prone leadership of the Trump administration, has quickly turned what was originally […]
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by D. H. Dilbeck | The great abolitionist spoke words of rebuke—and hope—to a slaveholding
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