The Associated Press and other major American media outlets have started to capitalize “black” when referring to groups in racial, ethnic, or cultural terms, in response to the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent global reckoning with race relations….
A statue of Civil War hero and abolitionist Col. Hans Christian Heg in Madison, Wisconsin, was the latest to fall victim to the wave of vandalism and destruction across the country driven by protests over the death of George Floyd….
I had just moved from Chicago’s Lawndale to North Park and ended up in Miss M’s eighth-grade class. Miss M was a fervent patriot, an admirer of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and a staunch anti-communist. She was suspicious of the new…
