Thomas Hubbard
A professor who does controversial research on age of consent is suing a graduate student who publicly criticized his writing and pedagogical choices.
The new libel lawsuit parallels two others the professor filed earlier this year. Both of those were against undergraduate students.
The professor, Thomas Hubbard, a classicist at the University of Texas at Austin, says he’s been unfairly maligned to the point of becoming a target of violence. As proof, he points to an early-morning protest outside his home last year, during which his property was vandalized. He says he so fears for his safety in Texas that he’s relocated to California.
Branko Milanović is a visiting professor at the City University of New York. Prior to that, he was, among other things, senior economist of the research department at the World Bank. For his book Global Inequality. A New Approach for the Age of Globalization he won the Hans-Matthöfer-Prize awarded by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Most recently he published Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World.
Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer was illuminated in the names of victims lost to COVID-19 in an online ceremony called “For Every Life” that paid tribute to the 60,000 victims lost in Brazil and 500,000 lost worldwide. About 87,000 Brazilians heard messages of hope and solidarity combined with music and prayer in a live broadcast over social media. It recognized the losses of families and selfless work of healthcare workers and others helping the country through the pandemic. July 2020. Credit: UNIC Rio
Published date: 10 December 2020 22:01 UTC | Last update: 4 months ago
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Muslim Americans who were placed on the FBI s no-fly list after refusing to spy on their communities are allowed to sue individual FBI agents who allegedly violated their religious freedoms.
In a unanimous decision, the court ruled in favour of lead plaintiff Muhammad Tanvir, a legal permanent New York resident from Pakistan, who refused to spy on his Muslim community and suffered from a travel blacklist as a result.
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A new study from the Center for an Urban Future found that the public City University of New York (CUNY) nearly doubled the amount of STEM graduates in the past decade, but racial and gender disparities persisted, The City reported. Women make up 58% of the CUNY student population, and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) students make up 55% of the population, but those same groups only represent 19% and 31% of the STEM program, respectively. While progress is being made, The University nonetheless recognizes that more work needs to be done to achieve fully representative outcomes and is firmly committed to building on the outstanding progress of the past 10 years in creating access to technology careers for New Yorkers from lower-income, diverse backgrounds, said CUNY spokesperson Frank Sobrino. (See WiCipedia: Is there an alternative t