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By Steve FlairtyNKyTribune columnistIf you’re a senior citizen (as I am), you may have spent your early school years reading out of a basal reading series.At Grant’s Lick Elementary,

In the 1844 edition of the McGuffey Reader, the grade-school primer, there appears a dialogue about “true and false” philanthropy between “Mr. Fantom” and…

Before the Florida Department of Education issued its curriculum directive that slavery in the United States did, after all, produce “personal benefits” for the enslaved in the form of a well-stocked resumé of trades, useful after Emancipation in 1863, the board members might have consulted a seminal document in the literature of the oppressed—Angela Davis’s 1971 essay, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.”

Enraptured in the language of white Christian nationalists, Jill Woolbright has turned her campaign into a crusade. Academics can wait.

The sci-fi droids in the Star Wars TV shows The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett are super cool, but dont reflect robotics reality.