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In advance of the June 22 New York City (NYC) primary election, St.

Define education?  Fischthal apologized to the student in an email and set up a private discussion online about the issue that she titled ‘Insensitive Language.’ ‘I apologize if I made anyone uncomfortable in the class by using a slur when quoting from and discussing the text,’ Fischthal wrote. ‘Please do share your thoughts.’ Six students responded, including the initial complainant. Two defended Fischthal and the rest said the N-word should not have been used. Fischthal also invited students to discuss the controversy during the next class but she said the N-word was not used...

Hannah Berliner Fischthal, an adjunct professor at St. John's University, was fired two and a half months after an incident during a remote class where she read an excerpt from Pudd'nhead Wilson.

In a twist worthy of Mark Twain himself, a St. John’s University professor has been fired for reading a passage containing the N-word from Twain’s anti-slavery novel “Pudd’nhead Wilson” in her “Literature of Satire” class.

The Tablet May 4, 2021 Vice president Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., listen to President Joe Biden addresses to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington April 28, 2021. The speech came on the eve of Biden’s first 100 days in office. (Photo: CNS/ Jim Watson, pool Reuters) MANHATTAN — President Joe Biden won 50 percent of the Catholic vote in 2020, which might lead one to conclude that half of voting Catholics approve of his performance during his administration’s first 100 days in office. Biden, the second C...