Black mental health needs to be acknowledged in Chauvin guilty aftermath thegrio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thegrio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2020 and 2021 Honorary Degree Recipients
2020
2020 Commencement Speaker
Mary Dana Hinton became the thirteenth president of Hollins University on August 1, 2020. An active and respected proponent of the liberal arts and inclusion, her leadership reflects a deep and abiding commitment to educational equity and the education of women.
For six years Hinton served as the president of the College of Saint Benedict (Saint Ben’s) in Saint Joseph, Minnesota, and was named President Emerita upon her departure. Under her leadership, Saint Ben’s put into action a collaborative strategic plan and dynamic vision to guide the institution through 2020. During her tenure, the college
New York
The Social Order
In late January, months of feuding at New York City’s Dalton School spilled into public view. In an anonymous letter, a group of alumni and parents wrote that the school they had long loved was abandoning real education in favor of “an obsessive focus on race and identity” in every class.
In particular, the letter’s authors blame Pollyanna, a New York-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) nonprofit. The consultancy’s “racial literacy” curriculum, the letter claimed, “has already permeated Dalton classes from social studies to science” and contributed to “some of the worst abuses this year” incidents like the one in which a Jewish student was forced to play the “racist cop” in science class, or the art class on “decentering whiteness.”
Some Dr Seuss books were pulled by his estate and a cancel culture backlash erupted mcall.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mcall.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Cancel culture controversy erupts after Dr Seuss books pulled
4 Mar, 2021 07:27 PM
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If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, On Beyond Zebra! and McElligot s Pool were among the six Dr. Seuss books pulled. Photo / AP
If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, On Beyond Zebra! and McElligot s Pool were among the six Dr. Seuss books pulled. Photo / AP
New York Times
By: Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris
The beloved author s most famous books, like Green Eggs and Ham, were untouched, but his estate s decision nevertheless prompted a backlash and raised questions about what should be preserved as part of the cultural record.