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More than 40 African American intellectuals are asking Smith College to end the “forced, accusatory ‘anti-bias’ training” that was mandated for campus service workers after a student falsely accused some workers of racially-profiling her. The letter, obtained by National Review, was sent on Monday to Smith College president Kathleen McCartney by Bob Woodson, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement and founder of “1776 Unites,” and 44 fellow black intellectuals. The signatories ask McCartney to “rethink how you have handled” the fallout over an alleged incident of racial profiling in the summer of 2018, and urge her to “publicly apologize”...

Parents need to reject the teaching of The New York Times' "1619 Project" because of its slavery identity, a Chicago pastor argued on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "We all know that slavery is definitely an appalling part of our nation's history, but we have to be the repairers of the breach. We have to bring restoration, we have to move forward," Latasha Fields, co-pastor of Our Report Ministries & Publications, said Saturday. Fields is a member of "1776 Unites," a project started earlier this year by African American civil rights activist Robert Woodson as a positive alternative to the Pulitzer...

... Street gangs and other criminal rings have even abandoned an implicit moral code that prohibits targeting “civilians”—women, children and others not directly involved in their “beefs.” In more than 40 years of working with local anticrime groups and documenting their solutions to youth violence, I have never witnessed the depravity that is occurring today on the streets of black neighborhoods around America. Nationwide, the tragic number of unsolved murders was documented in a 2018 study by the Washington Post that mapped nearly 55,000 homicides in 55 cities. The study identified inner-city areas “where murder is common but arrests are...

It is summer time in San Antonio. Mid-July, the 15th to be exact. The temperature approaches 100 degrees. It is a Texas summer day to be sure. Pastor Roman Herrera, instead of sitting inside enjoying lemonade and air conditioning, is instead working his way through alleyways.

Rep. Paul Ryan is meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. Let's hope they give his ideas a fair hearing. Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) is scheduled to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday to discuss his plans to address poverty and his March 12 comments in a radio interview about a "tailspin of culture" in our inner cities where "generations of men [are] not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work." Mr. Ryan's statement sparked liberal accusations of racism. Rep. Barbara Lee (D., Calif.) called it "a thinly veiled racial attack" that...

Letter to the Editor: I have known Courtland Milloy for more than 20 years, and although I have disagreed with him at times, I have always considered him to be sensible and sensitive. But his Feb. 6 Metro column about the president's call for Social Security reform causes me to highly recommend that he see a race therapist. Milloy contradicts himself. He lays out all the ways that we blacks are killing ourselves: cigarettes, unprotected sex, obesity and high salt intake. Then he indicates that somehow these self-inflicted wounds are about a "slave health deficit," and that some researchers say...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A new video documentary offers a peek into President Bush's Christian faith, recounting how it helped turn his life around and has guided his presidency. The 70-minute documentary, "George W. Bush: Faith in the White House," includes interviews with friends and religious leaders and clips from Bush himself. Available in DVD and VHS formats, it is being sold in Christian bookstores, including LifeWay Christian Stores. "He is by all accounts a deeply religious man and one who believes in the power of prayer," author Tom Freiling says in the documentary. "In fact, I have heard several accounts of...

Perhaps no political party has had a more loyal friend than the Democrats have enjoyed in the post-1970s black community. Just look at the 2000 election, when nine out of 10 African American voters backed the robotic Al Gore, even though he paid them little more than lip service. Their blanket support caused George Bush to set modern lows for a Republican presidential contender; he captured just 8 percent of the black vote—the worst showing since Barry Goldwater. Yet there is an underappreciated fact about black America that anyone armed with a decent survey could see: Black people vote like...