When Bill O’Reilly decried on his show last week a course on white privilege supposedly starting at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, he said his working class roots make him “exempt” from white privilege. Scholars across the country could have told the Fox News commentator that he got the concept wrong.
LOS ANGELES — Elliot O. Rodger was a young college student who had few friends, detested his roommates and spent much of his time alone, reveling in the isolation of a local golf course or the beaches near Isla Vista, where he lived.
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An organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students at Louisiana Tech University hastily arranged a protest via social-media outlets on Friday after learning that the university’s commencement ceremony, on Saturday, would honor a TV personality who has come under fire for inflammatory comments about gay and black people, KNOE-TV, a CBS affiliate in
The good news, contrary to a slew of media reports, is that Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government won’t be mandating that its incoming grad students take a course on “checking your white privilege” as part of their new-student orientation.
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Fanning racial tensions at a Watts middle school, several African American parents say Latino administrators are unfairly targeting their children and unofficially suspending them from classes.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana State Legislature on Wednesday passed a bill that could force three of the state’s five abortion clinics to close, echoing rules passed in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas and raising the possibility of drastically reduced access to abortion across a broad stretch
WASHINGTON — Days after President Lyndon B. Johnson’s election to his first full term, an administration official asked a subordinate to explain the policy on firing gays. In particular, he wondered whether someone with a history of gay liaisons could, through years of marriage, be “rehabilitated” into a trustworthy civil servant.
A federal judge struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday, the latest judicial victory for gays and lesbians seeking to marry whomever they want.
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Only about half of young immigrants who grew up in the United States without legal status identify with the Democratic Party, while nearly half say they are independents or have some other non-party affiliation, according to a study published Tuesday. The findings run counter to perceptions that the young immigrants,
Amanda Bennett, a journalist and author, is a former editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
On June 2, 2003, I was named editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and became — as Jill Abramson did later at the New York Times — the first female editor in a storied institution’s hundred-year-plus history. In November 2006, I