President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the Republican Party will host the first ever Midterm convention this year in Dallas, Texas.
The convention will take place later this year and run from Sept. 9-10.
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Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of “cultural appropriation.” Nutrition experts argued that preventing obesity was a form of racialized “fatphobia,” even as scientific names of songbirds were purged in a moral campaign presumably aimed at white supremacy. Meanwhile, a slew of studies and papers and articles argued that punctuality, excellence, and other forms of professionalism are “the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness.”
Today, as universities are dismantling their DEI bureaucracies, corporations are scaling back antiracism training, and academic trigger warnings and diversity pledges have become punch lines rather than cudgels, it is tempting to believe that the excesses of the woke movement have not just peaked but are a thing of the past, a passing fever dream of a peculiar era.
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One thing that Nashville is known for is its hundreds of magnificent murals inside and outside of buildings all over town. For those of us who appreciate art but can’t really create it, I thought it would be fun to get to know one of these artists.
Devin Wright originally hails from the Los Angeles area. His great-grandfather was a jazz musician from New Orleans, and his family has been involved in the entertainment business for generations. But Wright (who can also play jazz) has always focused on visual art.
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