It’s not my habit to read nor review short stories. They are, as it says on the tin, a tad too short. Nonetheless, I really wanted to read The Comet, which is not only considered as a sci-fi classic but also written by one of the earliest Black American sci-fi writers–W.E.B. DuBois. I wasn’t disappointed.… The post W.E.B. Dubois’ Afrofuturistic short story ‘The Comet’ withstands the test of time appeared first on Black Girl Nerds.| Black Girl Nerds
A mysterious fever gripped the nation in 2020. Some called it mass formation psychosis. Others called it hysteria. It was a result of three distinct events, as well as institutional…| The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
“Anyone who looks through enough statistics will eventually find numbers that seem to confirm a given vision.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed In the ideological universe of moralistic warriors fighting against injustices operating on group characteristics, disparity always means discrimination, while correlation is definitely causation. The propensity for confirmation biases is so […]| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on May 2, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Zack De Piero, a professor suing Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for alleged racial discrimination, plans to appeal after a district court granted […]| Minding The Campus
There has been major controversy and uncertainty in higher education circles about the future of considering race on campuses. After every major Supreme Court decision, opponents will seek to minimize the ruling, while supporters will seek to expand it. So, the rules have not been clear. The day the Supreme Court decided Students for Fair […]| Minding The Campus
Following is the case brief for Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (1968) Case Summary of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.: A real estate company refused to sell a home to an African-American man, Jones, because he was African-American. Jones sued in federal court, alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1982. The lower courts denied [...] The post Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. appeared first on Legal Dictionary.| Legal Dictionary
By Dr. Bryon Greenwald, National Defense University What sounds like the opening to a very poor joke is really an interesting, but disturbing historical question. While researching American An…| Reflections on War & Society
At SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston has an interesting post on an effort by lawyers who represented Fred Korematsu and other victims of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II to persuade the Obama administration to advocate the overruling of Korematsu v. United States, the notorious 1944 Supreme Court decision that upheld the forcible internment of […]| The Volokh Conspiracy