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Recently, the University of North Carolina voted to “ban” the requirement of politically charged prompts, like diversity statements, from any considerations for admission, hiring, promotion, and tenure. Such statements were deemed “compelled speech” and therefore antithetical to intellectual...

Opinion. At the 2022 Conference on College Composition and Communication, the flagship conference in the field of rhetoric and composition, prominent scholars participated in a panel on proper learning outcomes and anti-racist teaching practices.

On the left, people considered “the wrong kinds of Black people,” because their views don’t align with certain racial orthodoxies, are treated worse than problematic whites. Their refusal to toe the woke line is seen as betrayal. At best, they are accused of “multicultural whiteness,” i.e.,...

Stream Ep 149 I spoke with Jake Mackey about academia, and how it has gotten to the state it’s in. The slowly building pushback to authoritarianism within the academy and some of the initiatives involved. Do we have to rebuild, or can we save our institutions?

My race is meaningful but does not define me. I have had this conversation frequently: “How do we get more diversity and engagement from more people of color?”

Listen now (141 min) | An interview with Dumisani Washington, CEO and Founder of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel

(1994). “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena,” Rationality and Society...

“[I]n the words of the Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar, we all have “power, poison, pain, and joy” inside us — regardless of our racial identity. We are all assailed by the fear of death, haunted by the specter of insignificance, and...

What the world needs now, is… a dope antiracism practice. Learn how to cultivate unity in your workplace, with a diversity & inclusion program that teaches love.

Diversity training has become a standard feature of American corporate culture. Its origins date to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which codified protecting employees against discrimination and resulted in numerous lawsuits filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the...

Hearing the words “white power” is deeply painful for me as a black woman. But it’s worse for the broken people chanting them.

Listen now | An interview with FBT co-founder and former DEI Director at De Anza College Tabia Lee

The sociologist Musa al-Gharbi on empire, Islam, and the hypocritical liberalism of Manhattan.

The lucky and the privileged can work at home and keep earning—but for a whole class of service workers that’s not an option.

True equality is now within reach

Listen now | An interview with Christian thought leader Virgil Walker

Listen now | An interview with FBT co-founder and editor-in-chief Jake Mackey

A conversation with Teva Johnstone, LCSW

When Wink Twyman responded to Jen Richmond’s article decrying a diversity training program she participated in he didn’t know it would kickoff a letter correspondence that spanned the course of years. Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race in America is the compendium of these...

Listen now (110 mins) | An interview with FBT co-founder and true neutral Michael David Cobb Bowen

Listen now (73 mins) | An interview with parental rights warrior and OG black homeschooler Latasha H. Fields

Listen now | An interview with family and education news commentator Orietta Rose

Listen now | An interview with author, speaker and education reformer Charles Love

Discriminatory practices are clearly being encouraged as part of DEI in academic publishing. I do not welcome this for reasons outlined here.