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    Some in California Want to Legalize Racial Discrimination—Yet Again

    California Democrats’ incorrigible obsession with racial preferences is the definition of insanity: They keep trying and failing to legalize racial preferences, and yet, they expect a different outcome each time. When will they learn from their failures? Not any time soon. Their futile cycle has restarted with another effort to legalize racial preferences. The California…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Is Stanford Still Discriminating on Basis of Race?

    In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court last June banned schools from discriminating on the basis of race in admissions. In response to that decision, many left-wing administrators launched what in an earlier era was called “massive resistance.” For example, University of California-Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and University of Michigan…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Challenging ‘Racial Profiteers’

    The national tragedy of more drug overdose deaths, suicides, and homicides won’t be solved “if we have to look at each other through the prism of race,” activist Bob Woodson says. “There are people who are profiting from the grievance of our society, and we must challenge these racial profiteers,” says Woodson, an author and…
    Virginia Allen
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    Navy’s STEM ‘Equity’ Program Prioritized Candidates, Internships Based on Race, Documents Show

    The U.S. Navy approved more than $750,000 for a project that, while purporting to “equitably” increase the number of students interested in serving in the Navy’s STEM fields, prioritized recruiting underrepresented minority students, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) proposed a way to encourage students to pursue…
    Micaela Burrow
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    Judge NFL Coaches on Their Record, Not Their Race

    Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin stormed out of Monday’s post-game news conference when a reporter began to ask about his soon-to-expire contract. Tomlin’s team had just lost to the Buffalo Bills, marking another early exit from the NFL playoffs. The episode elicited plenty of commentary from pundits, including Sports Illustrated’s Michael Rosenberg, who urged readers…
    Rob Bluey
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    Latinx Engineers and ‘Systemic Racism’: Government Grants Inject Race Into Science, Tech

    The federal government is pouring large sums of taxpayer dollars into pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives—known as DEI—on academic science, technology, engineering, and math programs, or STEM. The National Science Foundation, a government agency, is funding a slate of programs aimed at addressing alleged racism in environmental and civil engineering, making the field of…
    Robert Schmad
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    SPLC Steps in to Protect ‘Patently Unlawful Racial Discrimination’ at Progressive

    The Southern Poverty Law Center is stepping in to defend a grant program for black-owned small businesses after a white business owner sued Progressive Insurance, alleging racial discrimination. Left-wing groups, including the SPLC, filed an amicus brief supporting Hello Alice, a platform delivering grants to black entrepreneurs, and Progressive. Progressive and Hello Alice jointly awarded…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Shocking Poll Reveals Extent of Critical Race Theory Brainwashing

    A new survey has exposed the extent of the moral rot that America’s universities and K-12 schools have wrought on society. According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, a large majority of young Americans think that white people and Jews are “oppressors” and that the mass killing and kidnapping of civilians can be politically justified. When…
    Jason Bedrick
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    Oregon Training Teachers to Dismantle Racial ‘Systemic Inequities’ in Math Classes

    The Oregon Department of Education is instructing teachers on the keys to dismantling “systemic inequities” in the math classroom. High school math teachers should “support equitable discourse and foster positive mathematical identities,” according to a series of teacher training slideshows from the Department of Education reviewed by The Daily Signal.  The Department of Education’s Math…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Mississippi Governor’s Race Called in Reeves vs. Presley Contest

    Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves appears to have won reelection Tuesday, fending off a challenge from Democrat Brandon Presley, a second cousin of Elvis Presley. The Associated Press called the race at 12:35 a.m. Wednesday for Reeves, about an hour after Presley conceded the race. Reeves first won the 2019 governor’s race beating Democratic Attorney…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘REVOLUTION AGAINST AMERICA’: Skillet’s John Cooper Explains Why Critical Race Theory Must Be Taken Seriously

    The lead vocalist, bassist, and songwriter for a top Christian rock band is sounding the alarm about the “woke” ideology of critical race theory and transgender identity, insisting that Christians cannot afford to sit on the sidelines as this competing worldview takes over the culture. Skillet’s John Cooper will release a new book this month…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    House Speaker Race: Nine Republicans Vie for Leadership

    After over 20 days without a speaker of the House of Representatives, the GOP hopes this week to finally fill the vacancy. Nine Republicans are currently running for the position. On Monday evening at 6:30 p.m., Republicans will hold a closed-door meeting in the Longworth House Office Building where they will listen to two-minute speeches…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    California’s Race Obsession: New Amber Alert Searches Only for Black Youths—and No One Else

    The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides all Americans with “the equal protection of the laws.” But California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom seems to think this doesn’t apply to the once “Golden” state, since he has now signed into law a bill that creates a special emergency alert—but only for missing black children and no…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Hollywood’s Oppenheimer Biopic a Historical Travesty

    Writer-director Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster, the biopic “Oppenheimer,” has grossed nearly $1 billion in global ticket sales, a staggering number including over $320 million from North American theaters and over $600 million internationally. That’s far better box office than other films Hollywood had counted on to offset the devastating, five-month strike by the Writers Guild…
    Allan Ryskind
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    US Naval Academy Is Sued Over Use of Race in Admissions

    A couple of weeks ago, Students for Fair Admissions sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Now, it’s suing the U.S. Naval Academy, claiming the academy’s race-based admissions practices are unconstitutional. The group was already successful in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, in which…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    FAA Should Rely on Ability, Not Race, in Hiring Air Traffic Controllers

    Tragedy nearly struck about six months ago when a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest jet came within 100 feet of each other. An air traffic controller somehow had cleared both planes for takeoff and landing on the same runway at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas. Disaster was averted Feb. 22 only because of the…
    Sean Nation
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    NASCAR Driver Out of Races After ‘Liking’ Insensitive George Floyd Meme

    NASCAR driver Noah Gragson has been suspended indefinitely after he “liked” a meme on Instagram on Saturday that made light of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis while in police custody on Memorial Day 2020. Legacy Motor Club announced Tuesday that it would replace Gragson, 25, in the seat of its No. 42 race car…
    Elise McCue
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    Will Hollywood Learn From Disappointing ‘Barbie’ Payoff for Pandering to China?

    Last weekend, the highly anticipated film “Barbie” made a killing at the global box office. One country where it didn’t do so well, however, was China. That’s unfortunate for the producers, who worked so hard to please Beijing, only to watch the film come in sixth place in opening-day ticket sales in China. Though viewership…
    Megan Litz
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    A Case Study in Hollywood Hypocrisy: How It Deals With Stars From the Left and Right

    As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the superhero movie “The Flash,” it is hoping you forgot all you’ve heard about the star, Ezra Miller.  Or, at the very least, Hollywood hopes you forgive him quicker than the conservative actors it has canceled. You may know Miller, 30, as Patrick from the 2012 young…
    Elise McCue
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    Reading and Math Scores Plummet as Racial and Sexual Activism Replace Academics

    As America’s public education system reports the worst literacy and math performance in decades, its schools dedicate increasingly immense portions of their time to lessons on the supposed virtues of racial and gender segregation. With only eight hours per day and 180 school days per year, one would think that everyone from the newest teacher’s…
    Tony Kinnett
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