by Jim Heath | Jun 22, 2020 | Business, Headlines
Several leading companies have joined a call by activists to halt ad spending on Facebook over concerns the leading social network has fallen short in efforts to crack down on hate speech and incitements to violence. The sporting goods maker Patagonia added its name...
by Jim Heath | Jun 18, 2020 | Headlines, Military, Race
The Naval Academy has initiated an investigation into racist tweets made by an account identified as a midshipman first class. Members of the Naval Academy community, and others outside of it, began sharing screenshots Monday of racist tweets made from an account...
by Jim Heath | Jun 11, 2020 | Headlines, Race, Trump
President Trump says America will be done with “bigotry and prejudice” before we know it. Trump held a roundtable on police and race in Dallas, but did not invite the city’s top three law enforcement officials – the sheriff, police chief and district...
by Jim Heath | Jun 4, 2020 | Headlines, Military
Former commandant of the Marine Corps, retired Gen. Robert Neller, is urging national leaders to “speak out for justice and fairness” following George Floyd’s death in police custody. “The time for being silent has passed, at least for me,” Neller wrote in a...
by Jim Heath | Jun 1, 2020 | 2020, Ads, Headlines
The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican super PAC, today announced it will target President Trump’s record on race relations in a new TV spot. The group, co-founded by George Conway, the high-profile Trump critic who is married to White House counselor Kellyanne...
