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Kyra Harris Bolden was sworn in Sunday as the first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court in its history. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who was sworn in on Sunday for a second term, announced in November that she would appoint Ms. Bolden to succeed retiring Justice Bridget Mary McCormack. “She . . .
A reparations committee in California has suggested that descendants of slaves in the state could be compensated $223,200 each for ‘housing discrimination’. The nine-member Reparations Task Force was formed by . . .
That old phrase “history is written by the victors” has always been a fraught equation, especially when that history – constructed by those in control of the official archive – has the power to diminish or outright erase those who don’t fit the preferred narrative. It’s an issue that strikes at the heart of Western […]
I thought about this while watching director Margaret Brown’s excellent documentary, “Descendant.” My beliefs were supported when I read Brown’s comments about the Clotilda, the slave ship that is her film’s narrative focus. “The story of The Clotilda was not a ‘myth’ or a ‘legend’ as it was often referred to by white people,” she […]
But as Ford and other presidents discovered, there isn’t a lot they can do to bend the inflation curve in a better direction. The Federal Reserve Bank has the tools — and is beginning to use them — but the plan to steadily increase interest rates inevitably risks bringing on a recession. Markets have taken […]
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