The Canadian prime minister is the latest public figure struggling to apologize for past misbehavior. A language scholar explains how to do it right.
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Recent blackface scandals that involve college yearbooks have overshadowed how yearbooks also chronicled important turning points in the history of US higher education, a historian argues.
Virginia’s stark political contradictions, reflecting centuries of racism and a new liberal majority, were on display when a blackface image was found recently on the governor’s old yearbook page.
The public was shocked by the blackface image on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook page. But if blackface is now taboo, there was a time when it played a big role in American culture.
Trying to figure out if Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam or other would-be penitents are sincere? A scholar who analyzed dozens of recent apologies offers a user’s guide.
A philosopher argues that moral responsibility for past transgressions can actually change over time. The test lies in how deeply an individual has changed.
In Virginia, suburbanites, city-dwellers and black voters together rebuffed racism as an electoral strategy and handed Dems a huge win. Is this diverse coalition the future of Old Dominion politics?
It’s time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling number of subscribers how to vote.
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Associate Professor of English Language Studies, The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Middlebury
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Associate professor emeritus, Journalism, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Professor of American Politics, George Mason University
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University Research Professor, University of Kentucky
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Associate Professor of English and American Studies, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
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Instructor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
