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UNC Non-Tenure-Track Professor’s Nonrenewal Upheld

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] From Chavis v. UNC, decided Tuesday by Chief Judge Catherine Eagles (M.D.N.C.): Dr. Larry Chavis was a non-tenured professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School. In 2024, UNC declined to renew his teaching contract. He alleges that decision was based on his race, made in retaliation for his reports of discrimination and outspoken criticism of UNC on diversity issues, and violated his First Amendment rights…. The facts as recited are either undisputed or viewed in the light most favorable to Dr. Chavis, as required at this stage of the proceedings. Dr. Chavis began working at…

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Gerald Horne On The Real Story Of American Independence

Independent Journalism

[ad_1] Elias Isquith, Black Agenda Report. White supremacy and slavery. It’s time to revisit America’s heroic creation myth and what really happened in 1776, author-historian tells Salon. With a sweeping and widely praised new essay on reparations in the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has challenged Americans to reconsider how they view their country’s history and to place the influence of white supremacy front and center. Rather than imagine the damages inflicted against African-Americans by white supremacy as having occurred mainly during the antebellum period, Coates asks us to recognize how Jim Crow in the South and redlining in the North denied black people…

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Priapic Ambitions: Notes on George Washington

Investigative Reports

[ad_1] Portrait of George Washington (detail) by Charles Willson Peale (1776). + I excavated my way through Ron Chernow’s bulging, semi-woke (by the standards of the Texas Schoolbook Commission)  biography of George Washington. I say, “semi-woke,” because while it discreetly admits that Washington was a patrician dandy of no exceptional military or administrative genius, who abused his troops, committed war crimes, bought his first election to public office with booze, and held 100s of slaves, often treating them cruelly in response to his own ineptitudes as a gentleman planter, it is quick to balance any evidence of fault in the…

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When Children Are the Target

Propaganda & Narrative

[ad_1] Vijay Prashad Z Network The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel has released one of the most devastating reports ever produced by a U.N. investigative body on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Its title is almost unbearable to read: “The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed.” Behind the title lies an accusation of extraordinary gravity. The Commission concludes that Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children and that these actions amount to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, alongside war crimes…

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Rethinking Independence and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Independent Journalism

[ad_1] Joshua Scheer As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, politicians from across the political spectrum are invoking the familiar language of freedom, democracy and American exceptionalism. Fireworks, patriotic speeches and national celebrations present the nation’s founding as the birth of liberty and self-government. political leaders across the ideological spectrum have once again embraced the familiar language of American exceptionalism. From President Donald Trump to former President Barack Obama, the nation’s founding is celebrated as the beginning of an extraordinary experiment in liberty and self-government. This patriotic narrative leaves out some of the…

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