In public discourse, there are two forms of narrative. The standard narrative is a detailed account of an incident; the viewpoint narrative presents a situation in a way that promotes a political position. The public first learned that a mentally ill homeless black man named Jordan Neely died on a…

Doug Williams was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1978, making him the first black quarterback picked in the first round of the NFL draft. Williams was selected from a historically black college. During that era, bigotry made black quarterbacks uncommon. However, drafting black players from HBCUs was commonplace…

Five years ago, The College Fix reported “11 times campus speakers were shouted down by leftist protesters” between 2017 and 2018. Ever since pundits debated whether cancel culture actually existed. Ernest Owens, a journalist, attempted to settle the dispute in his 2023 book, The Case for Cancel Culture: How This…

Amazon decided in 2019 not to construct a second headquarters in New York. Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, stated that Amazon would have brought 25,000 to 40,000 well-paying jobs and nearly $30 billion in new revenue to finance transit improvements, new housing, schools, and numerous other quality-of-life improvements. Cuomo…

Activists and legislators have different functions, but what happens when an activist becomes a legislator and continues functioning as an activist? Headlines like this appear: Tennessee GOP expels Democratic lawmakers for anti-gun protest. On March 27, a mass shooting at a private elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, shocked the nation…

Last year, ABC suspended Whoopi Goldberg from hosting The View after Goldberg insisted the Holocaust wasn’t about race. Goldberg’s television co-hosts told her that the Nazis considered Jews a different race. Goldberg replied that these were two groups of white people demonstrating man’s inhumanity to man. ABC stated that Goldberg’s…

When human rights and traditional values clash — Uganda decided in February to close the UN human rights office that was in their country. This office was set up in 2006 to keep an eye on human rights violations in Ugandan areas that were at war. In 2009, the office’s mandate was expanded to cover all human rights…

In a recent interview, black theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates was asked why black students don’t do as well on standardized tests. Gates stated that test scores measure the intrinsic capacity for students to excel, but test scores also measure the investment a society has made in those students. Then…

Democratic Delegates in Maryland proposed bill that will prohibit anyone under the age of 25 from being charged with felony murder? — The latest studies in neuroscience suggest that the frontal lobe of the human brain doesn’t fully develop until the age of 25. However, in 2022, Kate Mills, a neuroscientist, said, “We’re still not there with the research to say the brain is mature at 25 because we don’t have a…