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Today we talk about Juneteenth and USU's corresponding events. We're joined by Cree Taylor, Lecturer in the USU English Department and event organizer, and filmmaker Mauli Junior Bonner, whose film, “His Name is Green Flake,” will be screened on Saturday.

Amid Pride Month festivities, worries about a reversal of LGBTQ+ rights loom with the possible reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Ohio University will host its second annual Juneteenth Celebration on June 18, with community events scheduled throughout the day for the OU community.

By Rajan Philips Sri Lanka became a Republic on 22 May 1972, and the fiftieth republican anniversary has come and gone largely unnoticed. The only acknowledgement of the occasion so far in the media has been the articles by Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne, which were also a reproduction of a chapter on the 1972 Constitution that […]

“Falsely shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater” is commonly used in explaining the limits of freedom of speech. Did you know there was a connection between that phrase and the

If property is inherently racist, where are the anti-racists of all races, including Professor Grundy herself, divesting themselves of their possessions?

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Among the extremely upsetting aspects of the Buffalo domestic terror shooting is the news that a great many Americans accept some version of the great replacement theory, the ideology espoused by the Buffalo shooter....

Make abortion normal again.

Fourteenth Amendment, amendment (1868) to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” In all, the amendment comprises five sections, four of which began in 1866 as separate proposals that stalled in legislative process and were later amalgamated, along with a...

The draft decision would not only abolish the federal constitutional right to abortion, but would serve as a starting gun for a race to dismantle the entire edifice of democratic legal reforms in the US.