Florida lawmakers got a taste of the bigotry their legislation has helped to legitimize in the past two years of warring against so-called “woke” culture. The latest effort, a bill to prohibit local governments from removing historic monuments, appears to have floundered after a heated Senate committee hearing on Tuesday. The bill would prevent local […]
Feb. 8—MORGANTOWN — The House of Delegates got mired Thursday in a nearly hour-long debate over an amendment to remove three words from a 14-page bill concerning the hiring of school security officers. The Democrats, being a super-minority, lost the debate but exacted retribution by exercising the constitutional right to have every subsequent bill, but […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four years after South Carolina removed the Confederate battle flag from its Statehouse grounds, Nikki Haley offered two separate explanations of the flag’s meaning in less than a week. Haley, the state’s governor when the flag was pulled in 2015 from its place of honor in Columbia, said in a 2019 […]
Donald Trump has found a new racist name to call his rival Nikki Haley, who is Indian American. Trump is no stranger to turning to racism and name calling against his political foes. A political science professor told BI the tactic often backfires against the candidate. He’s doing it again. Donald Trump is reaching for […]
Former basketball player and CNN host Charles Barkley laughed after reviewing a recent clip of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, in which she said the United States has “never been a racist country.” During a Tuesday interview on “Fox & Friends,” Haley claimed the U.S. is not a racist country and never has been one. […]
Diageo has settled a dispute with Sean “Diddy” Combs after the US rapper accused the UK spirits giant of racism. Mr Combs withdraw his legal action and all allegations as part of the resolution. Last year, the music mogul’s business began legal action claiming that the DeLeon tequila brand co-owned by the two groups, and […]
To the editor: Rabbi Danny Burkeman’s article (Dec. 31) on the rise of anti-Jewish racism and discrimination, and the widespread indifference to it in Greater Boston and nationally, resonated painfully for me. As someone who grew up in Greater Boston and who has always had a deep love for Massachusetts and New England, it has […]