Showing posts with label Bigotry and Racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bigotry and Racism. Show all posts
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Amherst College Picks Emily Dickinson as New Sports Mascot

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In Surprise Move, Amherst College Picks Emily Dickinson as New Sports Mascot Edged Out Leading Contender: “Fighting Poets” Image of Em...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Human Rights Day 2016

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This year, as every year, Amherst celebrated Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the promulgation of the Universal Declaration of H...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Rally Against Veterans' Flag Convoy and in Support of Hampshire College.

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As noted in the previous post , Hampshire College's decision to resume flying the American flag in the wake of the protest by a veterans...

From the Protest Rally Against the Hampshire College Flag Policy

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In response to students' anger and fear in the wake of the presidential election and their protests that the American flag represen...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

15 October 1830: Helen Fiske (Helen Hunt Jackson) born in Amherst

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On October 15, 1830, Helen Fiske was born in Amherst. The friend of Emily Dickinson, who was born two months later (the arrival of both chil...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Flag Day 2016: Three Flags

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On Flag Day, 2016, three flags: The first thirteen-star "Stars and Stripes," from the American Revolution: postage stamp issued ...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Japanese American Day of Remembrance, 2016 (and unintended consequences)

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Serendipity is an interesting thing. As noted in last night's post , a Minneapolis paper just ran an editorial about plans to restore hi...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Trump and Perverse Pearl Harbor Analogies

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Normally, I would reserve the time around the anniversary of Pearl Harbor for posting about the attack itself, rather than the dismaying con...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Donald Trump vs. George Washington on Muslim Immigrants

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"Religious Freedom in America" canceled? stamp commemorating the Flushing Remonstrance , 1957 The bizarre political candid...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

An Old Picture About Race in Amherst

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A year ago today, I put up a little post about a picture involving attitudes toward race in Amherst . With renewed discussion of problems ...