Ketanji Brown Jackson Archives

An introduction to the special issue, “Teaching While Black”

Indeed, the sad truth is that many of the slights, insults, and aggressions experienced by the dedicated teachers collected here (I don’t think of the casual ugliness which many of us navigate as “micro-aggressions”) are duplicated within higher education’s administrative spaces....

Politics

Did a Republican Senator Really Say Interracial Marriage Should Be Left to States?

Republicans want to return power to the states, where those who are allowed to vote can impose discriminatory laws on minorities

March 25, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Right on cue, Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana today told a reporter that states not only should decide the issue of abortion but should also be able to decide the issues of whether interracial marriage should be legal and whether couples should have access to contraception. He told a ...