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The 14th Amendment has been used to dismantle race-based programs. Historians say there are clashing...
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 3 weeks agoThe Supreme Court’s decision to gut affirmative action in college admissions one year ago has opened...
Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoFor the formerly enslaved Black people in Texas, Juneteenth meant more than freedom. It meant...
Martha-Ann Alito: Wife of Supreme Court justice at heart of flag and secret recording controversies
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoMartha-Ann Alito had kept a relatively low profile since her husband was appointed to the Supreme...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: First kids of the United States
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoPresident Barack Obama with his daughters Sasha (left) and Malia.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Children of US presidents are in the public eye almost...
Does a Criminal Conviction Bar You From Running for U.S. President?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoIn the U.S., the bar for running for president is deliberately set low – only age and citizenship...
A controversial flag thrust Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife in the spotlight. Who is she?
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoThe wife of Justice Samuel Alito has maintained a relatively low profile ever since her husband...
Calls for divestment from apartheid South Africa gave today’s pro-Palestinian student activists a...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoIn the 1980s, university administrators called the police on anti-apartheid protesters, threatened...
Campus protests are part of an enduring legacy of civil disobedience improving American democracy
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoIn most cases, it’s reasonable to expect that groups of protesters will abide by the law. But there...
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block heads to D.C. for grilling on campus antisemitism
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoThe testimony — which will take place just over two months before Block steps down as chancellor —...
Is Zionism patriotism or racism? Big disagreements over a word in use for 125 years
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoGraffiti at the Powell Library on the UCLA campus. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) In the...