Attorney General Merrick Garland should act on the contempt case against Steve Bannon, Justice Stephen Breyer should retire, Democratic senators Diane Feinstein and Patrick Leahy are getting old, the filibuster should be retained but reformed and former Attorney General Eric Holder was too slow to release the report clearing former Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson. Those…
Illinois is the first state to require a media literacy unit as part of the annual curriculum for high school students. Educators are spending this year adjusting and developing their lesson plans accordingly, which advocates say will establish a new standard for US public education. Beginning next fall, students will be exposed to the following…
Ask Anna Crosslin, Gateway Journalism Review’s 2021 Freedom Fighter, about Afghan resettlement, and she paints the “big picture” from decades of public service on immigration resettlement. The retired leader of the International Institute of St. Louis, St. Louis’ immigrant service and information hub, starts out like this: “One of the things I could look…
For many journalism educators and their students, the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020 launched a year of reckoning, intensifying classrooms discussions focused on race and the media. Brandy Monk-Payton, an assistant professor In the department of communication and media studies at Fordham University, said when she returned…
A few days ago I shared an op-ed on my personal Facebook page by a doctor in Los Angeles who wrote that she was running out of compassion for the people unwilling to get the COVID vaccine. “Last year, a case like this would have flattened me,” the doctor wrote of a man who had…