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Oscars So Very Incredibly Racist: Investigating 92 Years Of Academy Awards For Acting Slavery Abolition

Oscars So Very Incredibly Racist: Investigating 92 Years Of Academy Awards For Acting

In 2016, inspired by the #OscarsSoWhite conversation and other conversations about racial diversity at the Oscars that have started since then, I volunteered to write a post listing all the white actors who had been nominated for Oscars for playing people of color.  As I did the research for that…
bubmag
February 7, 2020
Editorial Roundup: US Slavery Abolition

Editorial Roundup: US

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:___Feb. 5The Miami Herald on Fred Guttenberg, father of a student killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, being removed from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address:House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s act of rebellion during President Trump’s State of the…
bubmag
February 5, 2020
Book Review: The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum Slavery Abolition

Book Review: The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum

In The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum offers a set of essays that take their cue from the Cynic and Stoic traditions to explore the tensions within the cosmopolitan ideal through the works of Cicero, Hugo Grotius and Adam Smith. Questioning the book’s positioning…
bubmag
February 5, 2020
“Now that the Senate, which in no way represents 700,000 DC residents, has abdicated its responsibility, why do we continue to pay taxes?” Slavery Abolition

“Now that the Senate, which in no way represents 700,000 DC residents, has abdicated its responsibility, why do we continue to pay taxes?”

Photo by PoPville flickr user Wayne Vota “Dear PoPville, Now that the Senate, which in no way represents 700,000 DC residents, has abdicated its responsibility, why do we continue to pay taxes? Curious to see whether we can have a healthy debate on this.” Ed. Note: From a press release:…
bubmag
February 3, 2020
How Betsy DeVos’s framework for ‘school choice’ ignores America’s racist history Slavery Abolition

How Betsy DeVos’s framework for ‘school choice’ ignores America’s racist history

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bubmag
February 3, 2020
Here are 6 facts about the history of presidents running for reelection: historian Slavery Abolition

Here are 6 facts about the history of presidents running for reelection: historian

As the presidential election year of 2020 begins, many news outlets will discuss the history of past presidential elections and attempt to find parallels between the past and present. Here are six interesting facts about past elections. 1. 63% of Sitting Presidents Running for Reelection Won 17 Presidents sought reelection and were rewarded with…
bubmag
February 2, 2020