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Duke professor’s new book explores freedom and diversity
This free process of arranging diverse elements by merit in a hierarchy is how nature finds successful solutions to problems.
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Undercover report shows DEI alive and well in Raleigh
Undercover AIM report reveals Raleigh officials secretly protecting DEI efforts by rebranding programs under new names.
Opinion
Court ruling exposes downside of corporate diversity targets
A standout employee at Novant Health lost his job because of the company's embrace of questionable diversity goals.
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Appeals Court rules fired white Novant Health executive can collect back pay
A white male executive fired from Novant Health in North Carolina in a diversity-related corporate shakeup in 2018 can collect back pay, based on a ruling Tuesday from a federal Appeals Court. But David Duvall cannot collect punitive damages. A jury initially awarded him $10 million.
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Supreme Court rejects case of NCSU professor who complained about DEI
The US Supreme Court has declined to take the case of Stephen Porter, a North Carolina State University professor who claimed he faced retaliation for critical statements involving social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion. The high court rejected Porter’s case Monday without comment. A split 2-1 panel of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled against Porter in July 2023.
Opinion
Diversity, tolerance, and liberty in NC
“That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.” — Thomas Jefferson North Carolina is...
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Earls files federal First Amendment lawsuit against state Judicial Standards Commission
State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls has filed a federal lawsuit against North Carolina’s Judicial Standards Commission. She alleges the group wants to “chill her right to speak on matters of public concern.”
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Parents suing Charlotte private school over ‘political’ shift make case to NC Appeals Court
Parents of two students expelled from the Charlotte Latin private school in 2021 hope the N.C. Court of Appeals will revive their lawsuit against the school. The parents accuse school leaders of fraud, unfair and deceptive trade practices, slander, breach of contract, and other offenses.
Opinion
Pluralistic society best argument for school choice
If drag queens are deemed a vital part of the educational experience, some parents will find a market for that.
Opinion
The beauty of American diversity
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” – The New Colossus, engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty Immigrant. What do you think of when you...
Opinion
Taking inventory of social justice teaching in public schools
Wake County parent Dina Bartus garnered national attention recently for exposing a controversial assignment given to her child and other 10th–graders at Heritage High School in Wake Forest. The “diversity inventory” assignment was a worksheet that inquired about the gender, race/ethnicity, age, sexuality, ability, religion and socio-economic status of students and their classmates, teachers, close...
Opinion
Don’t be evil? In ironic twist, Google steps all over its own motto
Last summer, Google fired a software engineer named James Damore for posting a controversial memo on an in-house message board. This week, Damore and another former Google employee filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and “all Google employees discriminated against … due to their perceived conservative political views … their male gender …...
