A Freedom Rider Finds His Cause

When I first cracked open David Greenberg’s John Lewis: A Life, I had one strong concern: Please don’t make him a saint. Past book-length efforts on Lewis, while indeed valuable, wrestled with a clear hagiographic love for the subject, and the last experience I wanted was to read about a man as real as a cloud puff. I’m happy to report that Greenberg’s Lewis is human, fallible, and approachable.

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'Best Strategy Is To Keep Heads Down': Schumer Advised Columbia's Leaders To Ignore Anti-Semitism Backlash, Saying Their 'Problems Are Really Only Among Republicans'

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) quietly advised Columbia University's leaders to "keep heads down" and ignore congressional criticism of the school's handling of campus anti-Semitism, telling former university president Minouche Shafik that the school's "political problems are really only among Republicans," according to a new House Committee on Education and the Workforce report.

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Harvard Referred 68 Encampment Participants for Discipline. Now, With Classes in Full Swing, None Are Suspended.

Twelve days into the anti-Israel encampment at Harvard University, then-interim president Alan Garber said participants posed "a significant risk to the educational environment." After ending the encampment, his administration brought disciplinary cases against 68 students. Now, with fall classes in full swing, none of those students are suspended and most are in good standing, according to a House Committee on Education and the Workforce report.

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HHS Launches Investigation of Cleveland Clinic for Race-Based Treatment Programs

The Department of Health and Human Services is investigating two programs at the Cleveland Clinic that offer preferential care to minorities, the first such probe by an agency that has been loath to police racial preferences under the Biden-Harris administration.

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Harvard Must Face Anti-Semitism Lawsuit After School 'Failed Its Jewish Students'

Harvard University must face a lawsuit after it "failed its Jewish students" and neglected to address anti-Semitism on campus, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in Boston.

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America First Legal Alleges CrowdStrike Engaged in DEI Discrimination

'Specifically referenced efforts to use race as a basis for advancement in employment'

Feds Probe Chapman University for 'Unchecked Anti-Semitism on Campus'

The federal government has opened a formal investigation into allegations that Chapman University, a California-based private school, permitted "unchecked anti-Semitism on campus" that included death threats to Jewish students such as "F*** yeah I want you and all Zionist trash bags dead."

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Court Stands By Decision Rejecting Undated Pennsylvania Mail Ballots, In Blow To Left-Wing Activists

The 3rd Circuit Court rejected left-wing groups' request to reconsider a ruling that deemed undated or incorrectly dated ballots invalid.

State and Women's Groups Sue Biden Over Title IX Revamp

Red states and women’s groups hit President Joe Biden with three lawsuits Monday over his far-reaching overhaul of the federal Title IX ban on sex discrimination in schools and universities. The rule, slated to take effect August 1, replaces sex with gender identity in what the lawsuits say will allow males into female spaces and could punish staff or students who “misgender” a trans-identifying colleague or peer. 

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Biden Civil Rights Chief To Speak at Columbia Law Commencement Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal

The Biden administration's civil rights chief Kristen Clarke is slated to give the commencement address at Columbia Law School, amid a scandal over surging anti-Semitism at the university.

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