The president and the dean of Johns Hopkins Medicine said that they "repudiate" language in a newsletter from the school’s Office of Diversity that used a "definition of privilege that runs counter to ...
On January 19, in Trump v. Thompson, the Supreme Court rejected a request by former president Donald Trump to prevent the National Archives from releasing White House records that the House January 6 ...
After outrage on social media, a diversity, inclusion and health equity office at Johns Hopkins University on Thursday retracted a definition of privilege that included English speakers, Christians, ...
Doctors and lawyers, priests and spouses _ our secrets are safe with them. When it comes to telling all to a court or jury, certain relationships have special legal protections or privileges that ...
In recent years, I strive to listen for intent and not impact. This has allowed me to suppress my immediate gut reaction or visceral response to an incorrectly used word or turn of phrase, and instead ...
Executive privilege: George Washington invoked it, Dwight Eisenhower named it and Richard Nixon abused it. Now it looms as the nuclear option in George W. Bush’s battle with Congress over its ...
Your Response: Sometimes when a person is confronted with white privilege, they hear it as “you’re a privileged white person.” This is an easy mistake to make, but it’s a crucial misinterpretation.
My last post on shaming privilege received considerable news media attention (like this Salon article, for example), and the ensuing discussions raised some timely and important questions about the ...