Archive for March 19, 2020
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promoted On Capitol Hill This Week
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Leslie Shedd is the new Communications Director for the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Republicans, working for Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the ranking minority member. Leslie earned her BA in political science and french from Clemson University in 2001 and her law degree in 2007 from the University of the…
Read MoreOta Benga And The Untold History Of Darwinism, Eugenics And The Roots Of Scientific Racism
You’ve almost certainly never heard of Ota Benga, a diminutive young man taken from the Belgian Congo early in the first decade of the last century, and literally put on display in New York City in a cage with a monkey. There is much discussion in America’s public forums about the country’s historic racism, with…
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