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May 2, 2024

Guest Commentary

Campus Student Protests

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

A university’s role is to teach students how to think critically and courageously.

To say that the following academic year has been riveting for higher education is an understatement. When Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of the…

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Commentary

Not Just Magic, but Hard Work Repels Misogynoir

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Misogynoir takes misogyny to another level, with a special hatred, contempt for or prejudice against Black women and girls.

Pennsylvania Democrat Summer Lee won her primary election on April 23, repelling an opponent who challenged her partly because of her criticism of Israel’s brutal war…

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Guest Commentary

Bittersweet Arab American Heritage Month

By Farrah Hassen, Foreign Policy in Focus Guest Commentator

We need enduring collaboration between Arab Americans and policymakers, educators, and community members to defend our rights, create a more equal America,

I’ve always known my Arab culture is worth celebrating. I heard it in Syrian tenor Sabah Fakhri’s powerful voice reverberating in my mom’s car on the…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

America’s Era of Great White Hopes Has Arrived, Again

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Their stranglehold on power, fueled by bigotry and nostalgia for a whitewashed past, serves as a chilling reminder of the depths to which our nation can sink.

Once again, America finds itself engulfed in the suffocating fog of yet another “Great White Hopes” era, another grim resurgence of privilege and prejudice that routinely…

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