Master, Slave, Husband, Wife: an epic journey from slavery to freedom by Ilyon Woo is the story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned enslaved woman and skilled seamstress, and her husband William, also enslaved and a skilled cabinet maker, and their 1848 flight from their masters in Macon, Georgia to Philadelphia, Boston, Canada and England. Ellen …
Continue reading During frigid temps, some non-fiction books to warm you
For decades, a generation of students, often protected by their parents from information and views that might disturb them, arrived on college campuses demanding that administrators continue to protect them from feeling hurt by uncomfortable ideas or stressed by robust discussions of the harsh realities of a complex world. They called out microaggressions and insisted on trigger …
Continue reading Student embrace of Hamas – willfully ignorant and antiSemitic
Right-wing provocateur Ann Coulter has cancelled her plan to speak tomorrow at Sproul Plaza at U.C. Berkeley, on the very spot at which the Free Speech Movement was launched more than 50 years ago. She was supposed to talk about immigration, (of great importance to the academic community) and event planners had hoped there would be a …
Continue reading College students need more, not fewer controversial ideas
Marjorie Arons-Barron 