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A Howard University professor tore into the victim-impact statement delivered by the father of slain Texas teen Austin Metcalf, arguing that the teen's death "did not begin with the knife" wielded by Karmelo Anthony but instead that his father's parenting style was to be blamed as well. Dr. Stacey Patton, a professor at Howard University's School of Communications, penned an opinion piece titled "Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries" to Substack on Wednesday on Substack, where she insinuated Anthony was acting out of self-defense. "YOU failed to teach...

The Justice Department on Wednesday indicted eight young anti-Israel activists, most of whom studied or worked at the University of Michigan, for orchestrating a criminal plot "to terrorize government officials, businesses, and the Jewish Federation" of Detroit. The defendants, many of them known campus agitators, targeted the homes of university officials and intended to use "poison, bombs, and psychological torture" on their targets. "In the dead of night, masked and hooded defendants allegedly threw noxious chemicals through the windows of families' homes and taped demand letters to their front doors," said Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the...

Two adults were arrested by ICE agents at a Maryland preschool graduation ceremony, drawing condemnation from top elected officials in the state. Children were allegedly heard 'screaming' when the arrests took place on Thursday in the parking lot of Commodore John Rodgers Elementary School in Baltimore. Video taken by a witness shows two agents holding a man down on the pavement as they tried to get his arms behind his back so they could cuff him, while the woman recording shouted, 'This is school property! It's against the law!' Last month, the City of Baltimore signed an emergency bill prohibiting...

The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether a university professor has legal standing to sue his employer after being forced to take diversity, equity and inclusion training courses. Arizona’s highest court will hear oral arguments in Anderson v. Arizona Board of Regents on Sept. 1. Arizona State University professor Owen Anderson, who teaches philosophy and religious studies, sued the Arizona Board of Regents in 2024 over being required to complete DEI training. Anderson previously told The Center Square that the DEI training he had to take singled out white skin “as something that could be...

Austin Metcalf was supposed to graduate this year. Instead, he is in a casket and has left a wave of heartbreak following his tragic murder at the hands of Karmelo Anthony. Metcalf was posthumously honored during Memorial High School’s graduation ceremony in Frisco, Texas. His identical twin brother, Hunter, accepted the diploma on his behalf. Footage of the moment has since emerged. A video shows Hunter Metcalf receiving his diploma on stage. Then he returned to the stage to get his brother’s as well. Once Austin Metcalf’s name was announced, the crowd delivered a rousing standing ovation that lasted 30...

federal judge struck down a Nebraska law that allowed illegal alien students to receive in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities, siding with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after the agency challenged the policy earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Brian Buescher ruled that Nebraska’s law violated federal immigration law by providing a higher education benefit to illegal aliens that was unavailable to American citizens from other states. The decision permanently blocks enforcement of Legislative Bill 239, a measure passed in 2006 that allowed certain illegal alien students to qualify for in-state tuition rates at Nebraska’s public institutions....

Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. The killer, 19, sobbed and his family burst into tears as the judge read the verdict on Tuesday. His mother begged a jury to show him 'mercy' ahead of sentencing. Jurors were then presented with arguments from the defense and prosecution before being sent out to deliberate on the length of his punishment. Anthony was originally warned he faced between five and 99 years behind bars for knifing Metcalf, 17, at the track event in Frisco, Texas, last year....

LIVE Updates 7:05 p.m. Sentence verdict reachedJurors reached a sentencing verdict. The court was expected to resume in about 20 minutes.

Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder for the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. There was an audible gasp in the courtroom when his 35-year sentence was passed down on Tuesday evening. He will be eligible for parole after serving half of the time. The same jury found Anthony guilty of murder earlier in the day for the stabbing death of Metcalf in 2025. When the decades-long sentence was announced two women were escorted out of the courtroom after they said 'We love you Karmelo!' following the sentencing. It came after the judge...

Austin Metcalf's dad, Jeff, just unloaded on Karmelo Anthony. "We were robbed, don't look down, of all of these things." "I said from day one, this was never about race, please don't politicize it. But what did you choose to do, both. It's about right and wrong. We're all humans. We all bleed the same color. "You're free to make choices all you want, but you're not free from those consequences. You will face those consequences starting today." "People think that grief is sadness but its not. IT"S RAGE!!! (slamming his hands on the table.) Pure unfiltered rage,' he shouts....

This video covers the murder trial of Carmelo Anthony, who is accused of fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. The defense's primary argument of self-defense appears to be failing as the trial moves toward jury deliberations. Key takeaways from the trial: Evidence of Provocation: Multiple witnesses, including some called by the defense, have testified that Anthony initiated the confrontation by refusing to leave a school tent, challenging others, and acting aggressively (1:33-1:50, 2:16-2:29). Witnesses characterized Metcalf's physical contact as a "soft shove" in an attempt to get Anthony to leave, not an act of aggression...

Jurors can consider manslaughter in addition to the murder charge against Karmelo Anthony, the judge said Tuesday. Anthony is charged with murder in the April 2, 2025 death of Austin Metcalf. Both were 17 at the time and were set to compete that day for different Frisco high schools at a track meet. If convicted, Anthony faces up to life in prison. The case has drawn national attention from the start and generated a flood of misinformation and racist vitriol on social media. Anthony is Black. Metcalf was white. Journalists from The Dallas Morning News will provide live updates throughout...

The left tried really hard to turn the Karmelo Anthony case into a civil rights story. They wanted Karmelo to look like some modern-day Rosa Parks, like being told to leave another team’s tent at a high school track meet was the same thing as being ordered to the back of the bus. Revolver: There’s nothing the left wanted more than to turn an everyday black thug into the next Rosa Parks. That’s what they were desperately trying to do with accused murderer Karmelo Anthony. You’ll recall that Anthony is charged with the brutal stabbing murder of young, white teen...

My most recent Martin Center column highlighted the irony, considering higher education’s formative influence on America’s prevailing anti-natalist culture, of the industry’s anxiety over declining birthrates. “Where,” I asked, “are large families less welcome, or where do they seem more culturally transgressive, than on American campuses?” I quoted briefly from Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk, who describes the book as “motivated by a single intuition: that if a phenomenon is sufficiently consequential, then its absence must also be consequential.” Current birth rates and their own responses to surveys suggest that one-in-three Gen Z...

Karmelo Anthony’s claims that he stabbed a Texas teen in self-defense may be falling apart after a witness called by his own lawyers changed their tune. Collin County prosecutors rested their case against the 19-year-old on Saturday after calling up 21 witnesses to testify about 17-year-old Austin Metcalf’s fatal stabbing at an April 2025 high school track meet, according to multiple reports covering the untelevised trial. Anthony was the aggressor throughout the deadly altercation, entering a school sports team’s tent where Metcalf was, cursing and taunting those who asked him to leave and killing Metcalf with a knife after Metcalf...

The empty desks appearing across Colorado today are the delayed consequence of decisions made years ago by politicians, educators, and cultural elites. Colorado colleges are bracing for what education experts call an “enrollment cliff.” Fewer high school graduates mean fewer college applicants, shrinking tuition revenue, budget cuts, mergers, and even campus closures. The same phenomenon is unfolding nationwide. After years of warnings, the demographic reckoning has arrived. According to recent Colorado education data, public school enrollment fell by more than 10,000 students this year, the state’s largest decline since the pandemic. State officials point to a simple explanation: there are...

The prosecution continues stacking witness after witness against Carmelo Anthony—and the testimony is becoming increasingly difficult for the defense to explain. Multiple student witnesses described Anthony refusing repeated requests to leave the Memorial High School team area, becoming increasingly confrontational, and challenging Austin Metcalf to physically remove him. Several witnesses testified that no one ganged up on Anthony, no serious fight occurred, and that the confrontation ended almost immediately after a minor shove.

A year ago, the White House was unleashing a blitz on higher education. At one campus after another, Trump officials opened investigations and cut federal funding unless schools fell in line with the Republican president’s political agenda. Now, after a campaign that put dozens of universities under investigation, President Donald Trump’s administration is taking a wider approach, moving to rewrite the federal rules that govern all of higher education. Demands that were being pressed on individual schools are being written into the fine print for thousands of U.S. universities. “We’re coming over the higher education system and course correcting,” Nicholas...

A Washington school board director who owns a sex shop is helping host a sex education event for children as young as 9 years old, drawing scrutiny over the program's content and the role of an elected education official in promoting it. Jenn Mason, the owner of WinkWink Boutique, which describes itself as a "woman-owned, inclusive, ‘not creepy’" sex shop in Bellingham, WA, about half an hour from Seattle, is hosting an "Uncringe Academy" for 9- to 12-year-old children on June 24. The event will cover gender and sexual identities, puberty, periods, the "paths to parenthood: the many ways to...

Families in a New Jersey school district were left outraged after a cafeteria menu distributed for June displayed a watermelon graphic on Juneteenth — prompting school officials to condemn the image as racially offensive and demand immediate action from the district’s food-service contractor. Montclair Public Schools said the image appeared on a June cafeteria menu prepared by food-service provider Sodexo and sparked complaints from students, families, staff and community members. Superintendent Ruth Turner said those who saw the menu were “hurt, disappointed, and offended” by the graphic’s appearance alongside the June 19 holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the...