The Austin City Council voted Thursday on a resolution that condemns displays of Confederate statues, artifacts, and memorabilia. In a three-page document, council members call Austin a “welcoming city to people of all backgrounds” where Confederate iconography is “harmful to the peace and tranquility of the city.”
The Good Schools Guide is to examine how ‘transgender-friendly’ schools are in future, its director has said, praising “fabulous efforts” by some institutions.
Around 200 people gathered Saturday afternoon in Dallas at Lee Park to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and an unknown soldier. Peaceful protesters stood in the blistering 90-plus degree heat while facing the barren pedestal where Lee’s bronze, 14-foot tall, six-ton equestrian likeness stood from 1936 until Thursday. Dallas officials sent in city work crews to warehouse the statue.
City councils are being harassed to approve new apartment developments by residents who are angry about spiking rents and screaming “Yes in My Back Yard” YIMBY) to generate competition to rein in greedy landlords.
Antifa violently attacked police and right-wing demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, just weeks after the group imilarly attacked peaceful protesters in Berkeley, California.
In a move that appears to put political correctness above public safety, the police department in Portland, Oregon, will be stopping the practice of identifying gang members in their databases. The department will purge their records in response to strong community concerns about the labels that have disproportionately affected minorities.
The University of California has sued the Trump administration for its decision to rescind the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.
A 33-year-old man’s parents flew from India to Florida to beat their son’s wife after he said she was “disobedient” towards him, police said.
The New Republic published an article recently claiming that algorithms used in artificial intelligence systems are racist.
Despite the media and their Democratic counterparts working full speed to spin the lie that threats of political violence are on the rise in a polarized Trump era – with the Confederate monuments, they claim, serving as an “obvious flashpoint” – the events that took place in Charlottesville on August 12, and what President Trump said or didn’t say in the days after, did not lead to this.
If MTV thought the promise of a Sunday night Trump-Hate-Athon (which we all knew was coming) would draw eyeballs, the leftwing music network was sadly mistaken. In fact, the promise of such a hyper-politicized spectacle appears to have turned people away in droves. Simply put, the final ratings are not only a disaster, they hit an all-time low.
A study published Monday in the Journal of Homosexuality claims that social justice activism circles are “rife” with internal discrimination.
It could cost millions of dollars to remove and relocate Confederate monuments and statues standing in Dallas public parks. It remains unclear who will foot the bill for this undertaking, says Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway.
A North Texas man wants to rename sections of two local freeways that bear the name of a past Democrat Dallas mayor who was a prominent member of the Ku Klux Klan. He kickstarted a campaign to sway city officials into renaming the roadways to honor former President Barack Obama.
Police ‘Hate Crime Ambassador’ Sergeant Peter Allan has praised a complaint about toilet signs depicting a woman and baby, asserting that the ‘sexist’ imagery “should not be happening in 2017”.
The Google employee behind a ten-page viewpoint diversity manifesto that went viral online has been fired.
Dallas proclaimed itself the first “human rights county” in Texas. The commissioners court embraced the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an initiative that claims to cultivate communities worldwide, although the Geneva-based Human Rights Council (HRC) has come under fire for anti-Israel bias and member countries with poor records.
The Fourth of July was America’s 241st birthday, celebrated across the country with parades, barbecues, and fireworks. But to some on Twitter, including Chance the Rapper, think it would be better to celebrate the date as the birthday of Barack Obama’s older daughter, Malia.
A Labour MP described as “the British Obama” has questioned Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s ability to lead the Grenfell Tower inquiry as “a white, upper middle class man”.
Brighton College will become the first private school in Britain to join a Pride parade, with pupils making “peace and love” banners for a float in the city’s LGBT parade.
The left wing government in Berlin is planning to roll out a citywide ban on “sexist” billboards, prohibiting firms from portraying women as “nurturing” or happy to do housework.
Amazon is mobilizing a July 12 collective “Day of Action” for tech corporations and social justice warriors to unite in rebelling against the FCC’s efforts to overturn Net Neutrality. The 12th falls on the 96th anniversary of Lenin’s call to deploy Russian communists to start civil wars around the world.
A student at James Madison Memorial High School in Madison, Wisconsin is seeking to change the name of the school, citing that President James Madison was a slave owner, a fact she says makes the school “unsafe” for black students.
The Democrat-controlled Legislature’s efforts to establish ‘Healthy California Act’ as a $400 billion a year takeover of state’s $400 billion in healthcare is about to pass.
A group of feminist performing artists ‘galloped’ seven kilometres through Stockholm past a number of the city’s statues on Saturday to protest “patriarchal” statues of men on horseback.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has started a marketing team to increase the number of food stamp recipients by 50 percent to make sure the Trump administration’s spending cuts do not slow the flood of federal dollars.
Bank of America just warned that America’s next social justice movement will be “Occupy Silicon Valley,” which will demand a redistribution of wealth from liberal tech moguls to workers.
A pared-down version of the transgender “bathroom bill” passed in the Texas House Sunday by a vote of 91-50.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The monument to General Robert E. Lee was removed from its pedestal in Lee Circle at the heart of the city of New Orleans. Mayor Mitch Landrieu used the event to claim victory for political correctness.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Upon taking down the third Civil War-era monument, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said the process of removing four historical was necessary to “stand up to hate.”
More than 100 schools in Britain have signed up, primaries “faster than secondary schools”, to an LGBT “best practice” programme under which separate boys’ and girls’ uniforms are ditched, and material promoting gay and transgender lifestyles is injected into every part of the curriculum.
One of Britain’s top private schools is bringing in ‘gender-neutral’ uniforms that would allow boys to wear skirts, as teachers report growing numbers of children ‘questioning their gender identity’.
Governor Jerry Brown warned in his May Revised Budget last week that California is expected to suffer a $20 billion tax crash in it next recession.
A 2014 “guidance” from the Obama administration that threatens school districts whose data showed a higher proportion of minority students are administered disciplinary measures is still in effect in the Trump administration.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – As New Orleans monument supporters chanted “Mitch for prison!” the City of New Orleans removed the second Civil War-era marker under orders by Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D).
Despite being the #1 selling movie on YouTube, beating Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars, Cassie Jaye’s documentary, “The Red Pill” was declined for inclusion by Netflix.
Donald Trump’s name was only mentioned once during this year’s MTV Movie & TV Awards, but that didn’t mean Sunday night’s ceremony shied away from hot-button political issues.
UC Santa Cruz surrendered to the demands of the Afrikan Black Student Alliance (ABSA) after a three-day occupation of the administration building — and after ABSA activists harassed Jews.
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — John Legend is expected on a Massachusetts college campus this week to receive a social justice award.
Students at Bucknell University are claiming victim status after violating school chalking guidelines, which requires students to obtain permission before taking chalk to campus pavement.
