O Say, Can You See: Free Expression by the Light of Fiery Crosses

This Article presents a comprehensive, context-based theory which both places cross burning in its proper doctrinal framework and recognizes the history of cross burning as one of Ku Klux Klan-inspired terrorism directed at African Americans. The author prefaces critical commentary on the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Virginia v. Black with analysis of the full landscape of cross burning cases including another issue to which others have paid little attention - the ways in which state courts have negotiated First Amendment challenges to cross burning statutes. Thoroughly examining cross burning from each of these perspectives, the Article argues that cross burning should be treated as hate crime, which may be prosecuted, rather than as constitutionally protected hate speech

O Say, Can You See: Free Expression by the Light of Fiery Crosses

This Article presents a comprehensive, context-based theory which both places cross burning in its proper doctrinal framework and recognizes the history of cross burning as one of Ku Klux Klan-inspired terrorism directed at African Americans. The author prefaces critical commentary on the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Virginia v. Black with analysis of the full landscape of cross burning cases including another issue to which others have paid little attention - the ways in which state courts have negotiated First Amendment challenges to cross burning statutes. Thoroughly examining cross burning from each of these perspectives, the Article argues that cross burning should be treated as hate crime, which may be prosecuted, rather than as constitutionally protected hate speech

Legacy No Longer: Designing Sustainable Systems for Website Development

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is home to digital collections such as The Walt Whitman Archive, The Willa Cather Archive, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, and O Say Can You See. These projects contain overlap between subjects, individuals, and locations, yet are siloed, and many are built in aging, unsupported technologies with no interoperability or common search. In order to address this, the Center has developed an API (“Henbit”) as part of a modular software stack to index and display data and content

UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Special Summer Edition

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles: Street Opening Set Aug. 17 – Seventeenth Street Firm to Build 150 Units for Married Students Former Westerner is Crowned at Fair – Joanna Smith Lowell Harrison to Speak at Commencement $23 Million Budget is Approved; James Wesolowski, Burch Oglesby, Edmund Hegan Picks Bowling, Camelia. Hardin Planetarium Solves Weighty Problems 2 at Western Trying to Salvage Fountain – Fountain Square Park Croft, James. Cravens Graduate Center Open A Night Out? WSM’s Noon Show Taped at Western Kentucky University Bolling, Landrum. Educator Raps Popular Myths About Young O Say Can You See . . . a Glimmer of Hope What’s Happening – Alpha Delta Pi, Gamma Sigma Sigma Sleeping Beauty Set July 21 Westerners Star in Boone Drama – James Pickett, Miller McKee Pam Martin 2nd in State Pageant 4,078 Registered for Summer Term Football, Basketball Teams May Have Trouble Defending Ohio Valley Conference Crowns Lawrence, Fred. New Track Coach Jerry Bean a Believer in Winning Topper Cross Country Team Headed into Long Season Mitchell, Phyllis. Benny Dees Named Assistant Basketball Coach; Jim Rose Sings Pact Ray’s Drive-I

30 Minutes with John Brown at the Smithsonian

Last week, my folks were in town from Ohio visiting me and doing the \u27tourist thing\u27 in our nation\u27s capitol. On one of their days in town, I met them after work at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH). We saw the Great Garrison Flag and the gunboat Philadelphia. My mom saw the First Ladies\u27 dresses while my father and I went to the military exhibit instead (we\u27re not much for fancy dresses). And although they were tired, and by this time had had their fill of history, I convinced them to let me drag them along to see two of the Smithsonian\u27s interpretive programs. [excerpt

He Rode Alone: Francis Scott Key as an Advocate for Freedom

Recently Francis Scott Key and the Star Spangled Banner have come under increasing historical scrutiny. Claims and allegations of racism and hidden meanings behind the poem have abounded and even led to statues being torn down across the nation. But what is the truth? In reality Francis Scott Key\u27s record on race and slavery is dramatically more complex than the critics would suggest. Indeed, Key spent nearly 40 years of his life advocating in court for the freedom of slaves in Washington DC

Taking North American White Supremacist groups seriously: The scope and the challenge of hate speech on the internet

This article aims to address two questions: how does hate speech manifest on North American white supremacist websites; and is there a connection between online hate speech and hate crime? Firstly, hate speech is defined and the research methodology upon which the article is based is explained. The ways that ‘hate’ groups utilise the Internet and their purposes in doing so are then analysed, with the content and the functions of their websites as well as their agenda examined. Finally, the article explores the connection between hate speech and hate crime. I argue that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that speech can and does inspire crime. The article is based in the main on primary sources: a study of many ‘hate’ websites; and interviews and discussions with experts in the field