The newly-appointed editor of Teen Vogue has apologised for “racist and homophobic” tweets she wrote in 2011 at the age of 19.
Staff at the magazine signed a letter in protest at the hiring of Alexi McCammond, now 29, over the comments.
The letter said it rejected her sentiments at this “moment of historically high anti-Asian violence”.
While Oprah made it clear at the beginning of the recent interview with Meghan and Harry that the couple was not getting paid (directly) for the interview, she periodically made it into an infomercial for all three of them.
The Arizona Department of Education has released an “equity toolkit” to expose and quell racism among children as young as 3 months of age. The toolkit, provided to teachers and parents, uses critical race theory (CRT) to show how white babies “remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness” by age five.
While most would consider topics like science and math to be essential components of an elementary school education, the principal of East Side Community High in New York City believes students and parents need to spend more time considering their “white identity.”
Aurora James was frustrated when she would go to stores and see a lack of Black-owned brands on shelves. It was out of that frustration that the fashion designer decided she needed to be a part of the solution by disrupting business as usual.
“I was so fed up as a woman and a woman of color, being disappointed by the choices that people or companies were making. But I also realized that I failed in a lot of ways to really ask for what I needed,” James told CBS News’ Michelle Miller.
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, she took to Instagram and demanded major retailers commit 15% of their shelf space to Black-owned brands, creating the initiative the “15 Percent Pledge.” “Black people in the U.S. make up nearly 15% of the population,” its website says.
CBS’s Magnum P.I. reboot teased viewers in Friday night’s episode, “The Long Way Home,” by making it seem like they might follow in the footsteps of their fellow cop drama Blue Bloods and depict the unfair treatment police and their loved ones are facing in today’s anti-cop culture. But sadly, they not only dropped the ball, they kicked it out of the park by instead stating, “the system is broken,” and defending BLM activism, which has led to violence and riots, as “a form of patriotism.”
Farage, 56, told Christopher Hope he feels he has achieved everything he can in electoral politics, but that he will continue to campaign on issues important to him “through media and social media.”
Specifically, Farage points to the high levels of Chinese Communist involvement in British politics, as well as social justice causes that he calls the “woke agenda.”
In a book titled “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom,” professor Asao Inoue encourages teachers to ditch grading for a “labor-based” grading system wherein students earn grades based on their effort. The quality of a student’s writing would not help or hinder their course grade.
At ANP we rarely call for boycotts and we are not calling for them now.
With that said, after reading the article below, should readers decide on their own they do not wish to do businesses with a number of corporate authoritarians, that is their call. We do realize that in some cases, folks might not have another option for certain services.
Our call to action here is to contact each of these businesses to make your opinion known. We will be providing all the contact details we can find for each, listed beneath the statements and info known about each corporations’ plans.
The businesses are: Target, Starbucks, Macy’s, Toyota, Hyatt, CVS, Walgreens, AMC, GM, Alamo Drafthouse, Kohl’s, Costco, H-E-B/Central Market, and Kroger.
The incident occurred when Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) officers were serving a search warrant related to a drug investigation on Taylor’s apartment with a team of officers on March 13, 2020.
In yet another example of the complete grip “race” has on virtually every facet of American society, Boston Public Schools officials have announced that a program with advanced learning classes for high-performing students is being canceled over concerns that the advanced classes serve “disproportionate racial groups.”
The debate over the radical Equality Act played out in the halls of Congress, on social media, and in the cookie aisle apparently.
Whenever a person is “cancelled” or “no-platformed”, a public battle is inevitably waged. On one side, there are those who uphold the value of free speech; on the other, those who insist free speech depends on what is being said, or believe the whole debate is some kind of smokescreen for smuggling extremist ideas into society. What goes unnoticed, however, is that there is a pattern to these eruptions.
The other day, I was scrolling through Twitter when I happened upon this particular tweet, directed against the former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss:
“Imagine if @bariweiss offered 10% of the defense she gives white supremacy to all the antifascist, Jewish-allied, Black and brown women of color she has made a career putting in danger,” it said. “NYT staff of color felt so unsafe around her that she had to resign.”
You’ve probably never heard of The Sketchersons, a Toronto-based comedy sketch troupe that’s been around since 2004. But obscure though the topic may seem, please indulge me as I step you through the group’s recent meltdown, for it offers an unusually fine case study in the social panic afflicting Canada’s creative class.
