Luther College pays tribute to James Baldwin during Black History Month
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January 27, 2021
Luther College has events planned throughout the month of February to encourage everyone to celebrate the work and achievements of people of color during Black History Month. Viewing information and links to attend all of the live, virtual events can be found on Luther s online events calendar at luther.edu/events.
This year s events feature author and activist James Baldwin. Through film showings, lectures, discussions and performances, audience members will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge about the struggles and hardships that came and still come from being Black in America and gain a historical perspective that can be used to better understand recent events.
Died: Nov. 7
Jones had plenty she loved in life: cooking, playing bingo, karaoke and watching Colts football with her husband, Paul.
She was witty. She was caring. She was selfless, according to her obituary. But above all, she was strong.
Her family saw her at her weakest point, afflicted by the novel coronavirus and forced to be on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit.
She was on the ventilator 41 days, off the vent for 10 days, but then back on the breathing machine before she died, her daughter, Lori Anthony, said.
She just missed – by less than two weeks – celebrating her 72nd birthday.
My Turn: Jan. 6 and the path of Christian nationalism
Published: 1/24/2021 6:40:04 AM
On Jan. 6, the white nationalist group Proud Boys assembled near the White House, bowed in prayer. Other supporters of President Donald Trump in combat gear or T-shirts saying “God, guns and Trump” milled about. Not long afterward, they stormed the Capitol building in an insurrection that left five people dead. Crosses, images of Trump as Jesus, and a banner reading “Jesus 2020” appeared in the mob.
Violence is a long thread in American religious history. It goes back to the separatists landing in Massachusetts and the treatment of slaves brought to Virginia, the Salem witch trials, and the lynch mobs in the South that burned crosses.
Purdue University Global bolsters leadership team with innovation catalyst
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Purdue University Global has bolstered its executive team with the hiring of Maricel Lawrence as its inaugural innovation catalyst, effective March 1.
In this position, Lawrence will unite teams to imagine, design and implement new strategies, programs, modalities, processes and initiatives. Her work will be focused on Purdue Global’s mission to provide personalized online education tailored to the unique learning and career needs of adults who have work or life experience beyond the classroom, and to meet the needs of employers for ongoing employee professional development that responds to changing environments and supports the growth and retention of employees.
These Textbooks In Thousands Of K-12 Schools Echo Trumpâs Talking Points
Their religion-centered, anti-Democrat, anti-science, anti-multicultural message mirrors the Christian nationalism seen at the U.S. Capitol riot.
Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/HuffPost; Photo: Getty
Christian textbooks used in thousands of schools around the country teach that President Barack Obama helped spur destructive Black Lives Matter protests, that the Democratsâ choice of 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton reflected their focus on identity politics, and that President Donald Trump is the âfighterâ Republicans want, a HuffPost analysis has found.
The analysis, which focused on three popular textbooks from two major publishers of Christian educational materials â Abeka and BJU Press â looked at how the books teach the Trump era of politics. We found that all three are characterized by a skewed version of history and a sense that the country is experiencing an urgent