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Metro-east civil rights leaders discuss the importance of the Juneteenth holiday
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“It’s a holiday for every person who believes the peculiar institution of slavery was wrong and that...
DeSantis selfishly guts Florida's arts and culture funding for a budget gimmick | Commentary
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWe can only guess at DeSantis' strange hostility toward arts and culture funding, but it's difficult...
Giving Continues Its Decline, Down 2.1% in 2023. Can Fundraisers Turn the Tide in 2024?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy· 8 hours agoGiving has gotten off to a strong start in 2024, and fundraisers are cautiously optimistic about the second half of the year. Many nonprofits are coming off two years when inflation wiped out ...
Was Bloomington's first gay bar in the Irish Lion building? What we found about its history
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe illicit activities on the levee continued. A later article reflected on the “Morton Street...
Liberalism Under Siege
New Republic· 4 days agoAmerican Colonial leaders did not originally set out to discover a radically new philosophy of political freedom or establish a virtually unprecedented...
Patrick Hornbeck, ReligionDispatches
The Raw Story· 2 days agoIf this happened today, university authorities would undoubtedly respond by citing Virginia’s “Contracted Independent Organizations” policy, which makes ineligible for official recognition any ...
This 1920s Debate Explains Why So Many Americans Hate the News Media
Scientific American· 1 day agoIn 1917, President Woodrow Wilson was having trouble ginning up support for the U.S. entry into the...
EDITORIAL: Juneteenth 2024 | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 6 days agoWho put Juneteenth so close to Flag Day? It's almost as if the flag of the United States was meant...
UVM plans to nearly double its graduate student population as it nears ‘top-tier’ research...
Valley News· 22 hours agoVermont’s flagship public research university, then and now, has fewer than 1,700 graduate students enrolled, according to university data, and remains an R2 institution — ...
Opinion | Three potential wild cards for a razor-close Biden-Trump election
Washington Post· 5 days agoThe Trump-Biden rematch is too close (40.8 percent to 40.3 percent in the FiveThirtyEight polling...