Tag: racism

By segregating races, Alaska Humanities Forum rejects Rev. King’s ‘Dream’

CultureJuly 14, 2022

By excluding white people from day one of its upcoming forum on racial relations next month, the Alaska Humanities Forum has signaled its allegiance to the poisonous and divisive theories that underpin critical race theory. The idea that we must segregate the

AK pastor: Critical Race Theory & BLM oppose MLK’s dream for children

CultureFebruary 17, 2022

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series on critical race theory and the Black Lives Matter movement by Anchorage pastor Prince Nwankudu. Read part one here and part two here. I urge everyone reading this article to take a few minutes and

Anchorage libraries hosting 2021 events that cast America as racist at heart

CultureJanuary 1, 2021

The radical woke agenda of Anchorage area libraries will be on full display this year as the publicly funded institution begins a community-wide program for adults and children which consists of reading and discussing a book that claims America was founded

Anchorage pastors issue call to reject racism because all are ‘created in God’s image’

CultureOctober 10, 2020

Editor’s note: A group of 21 Anchorage pastors issued a joint letter introducing a new initiative that aims to combat racism by building relationships across racial divides and affirming that all people have inherent dignity because they are created in

Assemblyman Constant derides Anchorage as a racist city

PoliticsSeptember 1, 2020

Anchorage is a city in which racism and disrespect are baked into the community, according to Anchorage Assemblyman Christopher Constant. Speaking Aug. 31 at the first Assembly meeting open to the public in more than a month, Constant used his closing

Let’s cancel the cancel culture

CultureJuly 24, 2020

Cancel culture destroys empathy and compassion for others. President Obama addressed this disturbing trend in 2019. Speaking last October at an event in Chicago, the former president criticized the desire of many young people to demonstrate how “woke”

Monday: Juneau residents invited to weigh in on mask mandate & racism review board

FreedomJuly 18, 2020

Juneau residents have a chance to share their thoughts on two important ordinances under consideration by the Juneau Assembly. On Monday, July 20, they will consider an emergency ordinance requiring face masks in certain indoor settings during the 5:30 p.m.

‘Can we ever pull the weed of racism out?

CultureJune 10, 2020

Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd has caused us once again as a culture, a country and as a community to reel back and contemplate how this kind of evil can still be in our midst. For a police officer with 17 complaints

Seven hate crimes reported in Alaska last year

CrimeNovember 19, 2019

While hate crimes in Alaska are extremely rare, the number increased slightly from 2017 to 2018 according to the FBI’s latest Hate Crimes Statistics released this month. Nationally, however, the number of hate crimes decreased – from 7,175 in 2017 to

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