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Screaming protestors surrounded the building as federal marshals escorted a brave six-year-old girl on her way to making history. In first grade. It was November of 1960 when Ruby Bridges became the first black student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. After many white parents chose to withdraw their children from school, […] The post Civil Rights Symbol Ruby Bridges Writes Love Letter to Teacher That Helped Her in Tumultuous First Grade appeared first on Good News Network.

Ivy League schools are aghast to learn that they really have to stop racially discriminating and start protecting Jewish students from antisemitic threats. According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, “the Department of Education sent a letter to [Harvard University] April 11 demanding the school agree to a host of reforms, including adjusting and enforcing disciplinary processes, improving screening of international students for ‘hostile’ views, and auditing ‘programs with egregious records of antisemitism.’” If the school did not comply, the Trump administration threatened to review and pull some or all the nearly $9 billion in federal grants from Harvard. Harvard President Alan Garber responded Monday by saying that the school will essentially ignore President Donald Trump’s demands. “No government,” Garber wrote, “regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” If you don’t want the conditions, don’t take the cash I’ve got news for Harvard. Like most higher education institutions in America, they take federal money. And federal money will always come with strings attached. They are used to dealing with friendly administrations happy to fork over billions to the ludicrously rich Ivy League schools without question. But now Americans are very seriously questioning the blank check they’ve handed higher education for generations. Why is it that the average American taxpayer who has never attended Harvard, whose children will never attend Harvard, and who may even be outright discriminated against by Harvard (despite the Supreme Court ruling), has to pay for a school that has an endowment larger than the GDP of many small countries? Harvard’s endowment is worth a staggering $53 billion dollars. It’s practically a hedge fund with a school attached to it. No school has a right to federal money. And if Harvard is so concerned with federal interference now that it has our money, Hillsdale College offered an excellent solution on X. There is another way:Refuse taxpayer money. https://t.co/qAtohdDE5C— Hillsdale College (@Hillsdale) April 14, 2025 Hillsdale is one of the rare academic institutions that doesn’t take federal funding, in part to avoid the strings that are inevitably attached to getting government money. That’s looking like a good decision. Obama cheers Harvard for resisting Trump Former President Barack Obama weighed in on the controversy in his typical, phony “above it all” way. He wrote on X that he’s glad that Harvard is setting an “example” for other institutions to resist Trump. Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and… https://t.co/gAu9UUqgjF— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 15, 2025 This is rich coming from Obama. In 2011 his administration used the threat of Title IX lawsuits to browbeat schools into creating rules that would deprive students accused of misconduct of due process rights. They essentially wanted to force schools into assembling kangaroo courts. Of course, many also compiled because Obama was essentially the pope of the church of liberalism at the time, with most colleges and universities being parishes of that faith. Obama’s threat was lifted by the first Trump administration. President Joe Biden brought back the Title IX blunt instrument and sued Hillsdale College over it even though it wasn’t taking federal money. The Biden administration tried to argue that it could sue the school because of its tax-exempt status, but this argument failed in court. Free speech for Leftists, but not for thee I’m going to be blunt here. The Harvard president, Obama, and most of those with power in higher education don’t care one bit about academic freedom or the ability of private institutions to operate without government interference. What they really care about is free speech for leftists and ensuring that institutions they control continue to stay on the taxpayer-funded gravy train. The idea that Ivy League schools like Harvard are truly committed to diverse speech and a vigorous exchange of ideas is nothing but a farce. They are fine allowing “conservative” opinion to exist on campus as long as it isn’t particularly conservative and never really challenges the Left’s current dogma. Harvard made the full transition over the generations from a Christian to secular institution. And now it, like higher education in general, holds dearly to an extremely narrow left-wing worldview that has become the dominant ethos of the West’s ruling elite. That ethos is very much at odds with the general American public that underwrites the institution. If they want to be like that then fine. But now thanks to the Trump administration they may not be able to do that on the public dime anymore. Higher education is both hyper-partisan and, other than Hillsdale and a handful of other schools, now hyper-reliant on government largesse. The Trump administration is doing the right thing in holding Harvard accountable to the law and accountable to the American people. The post Harvard Doesn’t Have a Right to Your Money appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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When the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC weren’t lamenting Tuesday morning the plight of their beloved “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they each complaining about the Trump administration freezing $2 billion in taxpayer funding from far-left and private Harvard University, siding with the university’s insistence it spend taxpayer dollars as it sees fit. ABC’s Good Morning America led both hours with Harvard, including a tease with co-host Robin Roberts decrying the “escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.” Later, in tossing to chief national correspondent Matt Gutman, Roberts dismissed the concerns of the Trump administration about anti-Semitism, ideological bias, and racial discrimination as merely “policy demands.”     Gutman declared Harvard President Alan Garber was “the first to openly defy the Trump administration, drawing that line in the sand, saying that no government should dictate to a private university what it can teach, who it can hire, and admit.” “Harvard, America’s wealthiest university, not backing down in the face of pressure from President Trump, who is threatening to pull roughly $9 billion in federal aid...The administration ordering the school to report foreign students who commit conduct violations to federal authorities, submit to an audit to ensure academic departments have diverse viewpoints, and end all DEI program, share hiring data with the administration, and submit to an audit of admissions data,” he added. Gutman also threw in the Trump administration’s concerns with Harvard as just one of many hotbeds of anti-Semitic filth: “The administration also calling for the correction of what it calls anti-Semitism on campus, an issue which Harvard said it has already taken steps to address.” He went onto say Garber’s defense is on First Amendment grounds and that the leadership’s “defiance has been applauded here on campus by faculty and students, and the university vowing not to surrender to the Trump administration going forward.” To his credit, Gutman was the only network journalist to mention this important tidbit: “And one of the big questions going forward is Harvard going to dip into that $50 billion plus endowment to make up for that federal shortfall?” NBC’s Today had a single segment in the first hour. Co-host Savannah Guthrie teased: “And the White House’s battle with Harvard taking a dramatic new turn overnight. The administration yanking billions of dollars in funding. We’ll have the very latest.” Fill-in co-host and NBC Sports anchorman Mike Tirico had the setup for senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson: “Also this morning, a legal battle intensifying between the Trump administration and one of the most prestigious universities in the country. Harvard is now being hit with a $2 billion funding freeze after rejecting a list of demands from the White House to make sweeping changes.”     Jackson called it “a major showdown” with Trump “basically punish[ing] Harvard for not complying with that list of demands from the government by freezing more than $2 billion in grants” and thus what the school argues would be “violating [their] own constitutional rights” (click “expand”): JACKSON: This is a major showdown between the country’s oldest and richest school and the Trump administration. Overnight, you had the Trump administration to basically punish Harvard for not complying with that list of demands from the government by freezing more than $2 billion in grants. That’s because Harvard, earlier in the day, had told the administration they’re not interested in what they say amounts to a federal takeover or government control of the university. So, all of this makes Harvard now the highest profile school to go toe-to-toe with the White House, Savannah. TIRICO: Hallie, I’m going to jump in here for a second because this is significant for universities around the country. What are the specific demands the White House is making of Harvard? JACKSON: Yeah, Mike, there’s a bunch of them here. The administration wanted an immediate shutdown of DEI programs. They wanted Harvard to share hiring and admissions data and an audit on what they called viewpoint diversity. They wanted to Harvard to restrict the acceptance of international students who are, “hostile to American values and institutions,” plus an overhaul of departments and programs with anti-Semitic records, and plagiarism checks on current and prospective faculty. Now, the White House, Mike, frames this as part of its fight against anti-Semitism on college campuses. But Harvard says, wait a second. They say that’s not the intention of what the government wants to do here. They want to regulate us but they’re violating our own constitutional rights. And you saw that in a letter that the president of the school put out, writing that, “[n]o government - regardless of which party is in power - should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Mike, TIRICO: It’s the buzz of boards and administrations of universities around the country. Hallie Jackson, thanks this morning. Given that they’re still surrendering large scores of airtime to co-host Gayle King’s trip to space, CBS Mornings only had 42 seconds at the tail end of a segment lamenting the plight of illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes touted Harvard “reject[ing] demands that it institute changes in hiring and admissions” (click “expand”): TONY DOKOUPIL: Nancy, you know the Trump administration has also taken new steps against Harvard University. What do you know about that? NANCY CORDES: That’s right. Last night, the White House announced a freeze of $2.2 billion in grants and a $60 million contract for Harvard University. This comes, Tony, after Harvard rejected demands that it institute changes in hiring and admissions to ensure what the Trump administration has been calling viewpoint diversity. The White House says they’re just ensuring that taxpayer dollars do not go towards racial discrimination or racially motivated violence. But, in a statement, Harvard said that it will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. To see the relevant transcripts from April 15, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a Union Territory of India located in the Bay of Bengal, roughly 750 miles southeast of mainland India. While several of the islands are tourist attractions, there is one island that is strictly prohibited from visiting. North Sentinel Island is fiercely protected by the Indian government, as it is home to the Sentinelese tribe – an uncontacted, indigenous people who are extremely hostile to outsiders. In the 1970s, a National Geographic filmmaker was injured by an arrow while attempting to make a documentary. In 2018, an evangelical Christian missionary, who traveled illegally to the island intending to convert the tribe to Christianity, was killed after being shot with many arrows. Now, another attempt to reach the Sentinelese tribe has been made, this time by a YouTuber named Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov. On March 31, Polyakov was arrested after illegally attempting to contact the Sentinelese people. According to reports, he landed on the restricted island and filmed his visit. But if risking his neck for adventure or clicks (or both) wasn’t wild enough, the “offering” he left the Sentinelese people will truly shock you — and maybe even make you laugh. Dave Landau of “Normal World” hilariously unpacks this bizarre adventure and the absurd "offering" left behind. “He brought them a coconut and a can of Diet Coke as his offering,” Dave says, reading from reports. He’s immediately reminded of the 1980 comedy “The Gods Must Be Crazy,” where a Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane turns a Kalahari tribe on its head. “So [Polyakov] pulled a ‘Gods Must Be Crazy’ and must have thought that somebody didn't know the reference,” laughs Dave. “I know what you're doing; you're not original.” “Except in the movie, they don’t bring a coconut because they’re not stupid,” he quips. Dave’s movie reference sparks a wild panel discussion on '80s movies, cartoon chaos, and 5G paranoia. To hear it and see a picture of the fool who offered the Sentinelese tribe a can of Diet Coke and a coconut, watch the clip above. Want more 'Normal World'?To enjoy more whimsical satire, topical sketches, and comedic discussions from comedians Dave Landau and 1/4 Black Garrett, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.