• America is facing an education crisis

    How many people can say their fifth grade class trip helped launch them on their path in life? I can.

  • Black Women Cannot Redeem America

    The day that Beyoncé’s most recent album Cowboy Carter was released, Vice President Kamala Harris sent a congratulatory tweet to the singer. “Thank you for reminding us to never feel confined to other people’s perspective of what our lane is,” Harris wrote from the official VP account on X (formerly Twitter). Here we have a snapshot of a world that maybe even a decade ago would’ve felt improper to envision. A Black woman occupying the second highest of the land, publicly communing with the most...

  • Educating our educators on the Enlightenment

    A copy of a speech on the topic of the missing elements from school education, given by former Prime Minister…What to read next: JK Rowling stared down hate speech laws | The Conformist – cancel culture and fascism | Julie Bishop highlights ‘female privilege’ in politics (by accident) | It can be so hard to find an honest cheater these days!

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    Black Country Music: Tracing Its Past to Beyoncé

    Beyonce’s latest album, “Act ll: Cowboy Carter,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard country albums chart this week, making her the first Black woman to ever top that chart. Alice Randall, novelist and songwriter, most recently author of My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future (Atria/Black Privilege Publishing, 2024), discusses the legacy of Black country music and traces its roots to today's historic achievement.

  • James Ramos: The journey to teaching the facts in California

    By integrating the true narratives of our Native tribes into the fabric of our education, we ensure that every child grows up with a better understanding of the state’s origins.

  • James Ramos: The journey to teaching the facts in California

    By integrating the true narratives of our Native tribes into the fabric of our education, we ensure that every child grows up with a better understanding of the state’s origins.

  • ‘They don’t want to teach Black history’

    Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled. By Frances Madeson, for Capital and Main   The protests and student walkouts have stopped as an uneasy calm settles over St. Charles County, Missouri, after the community’s all-white school board threatened to eliminate both a Black history class and Black literature class, saying the curriculum contained elements of critical race theory. As...

  • Laura Trott proudly tells a black woman what is and isn't racist

    Apparently, she studied History and Economics at Oxford. With that little nugget, I shall leave the rest to you. BTW, the noise in the background is the odious Nick Ferrari. Penny Lane If you like our content, join us in helping to bring reality and decency back by SUBSCRIBING to our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ1Ll1ylCg8U19AhNl-NoTg AND […]

  • LAURA INGRAHAM: 'Death to America' is a fact of life under Democrats' policies

    Fox News host Laura Ingraham lays out several ways President Biden's policies bring "death" to the American way of life in her opening monologue Monday on "The Ingraham Angle." LAURA INGRAHAM: Because no one who really loved America, our history and our culture, would make it his [Biden's] policy to push that or to leave our border open. No one who really wanted to help keep America safe would have appointed nincompoops to the cabinet like Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, or Jennifer Granholm. And no...

  • Alabama’s Black voters seek chance to be heard after years of being silenced

    Montgomery, the state’s capital, is included in a new congressional district, and on Tuesday, a runoff will decide who stands in NovemberMontgomery, Alabama is the birthplace of the Confederacy and of the civil rights movement. Its history speaks volumes about the state of American democracy. It is perhaps ironic, then, how the last generation of its voters have largely been silenced.For decades, Alabama’s capital city has been split between two or three different congressional districts – a...

  • Illness and death are facts of life – Buddhism teaches us to be mindful but not fearful of it

    The art of developing a healthy relationship with our own mortality lies in neither avoiding the reality of suffering nor obsessing over itOver the last year, I have spent a lot of time eating pre-packaged sandwiches in hospital cafeterias. I often joke that those of us who are lucky enough to hit 35 will have at least one, if not multiple, serious health scares every year. At some point, however, we will face much more than a simple scare – serious illness can impact anyone, any time, with...

  • Instead of bailing out student loans, America must de-bloat higher education

    A degree in accounting isn’t needed to see college and university costs don’t pencil out.