If you haven’t heard of Kim Davis, then you must not have any form of social media or access to a TV. Davis is the clerk in Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licenses to LGBT couples.
There are...
Kim Davis is a reminder that the legacy of George Wallace lives on, though this time we’re dealing with same-sex marriage rather racial integration, and rather than standing in front of a school door,...
Tackling them one at a time, the “Rules for Dating My Daughter” list is slightly less upsetting. At the very least, some of the items on the list (the third and ninth) can be loosely translated to...
A New Hampshire jury recently made a ruling in the trial of Owen Labrie, a 19-year-old St. Paul’s prep school graduate accused of raping a girl when she was 15.
The fact that this case even made it...
Twitter has been providing users with messages no more than 140 characters since March 2006. With roughly 316 million monthly active users and 500 million tweets sent per day, Twitter’s impact on both...
The White House released its plan to curb carbon emissions and slow climate change. As expected, lawmakers in West Virginia took no time to dismiss the plan as “unreasonable, unrealistic and ultimately...
One afternoon in October of 2011, I was reading my cultural anthropology book for the introductory course here at Marshall.
This was my second year of college, so I wasn’t yet aware that most students...
With the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, many organizations are commemorating such a triumphant marker in the fight for civil rights of people with disabilities. Events...
A little more than a month after nine Charleston, S.C. churchgoers were shot dead during a Bible study session, two women were shot and killed after John Houser walked into a movie theater and opened fire.
Events...
To begin to understand my personal dilemma, you have to understand how I was raised.
As a kid, I literally grew up in church. My family hardly missed a Sunday (morning or night) or Wednesday night at...
The Framers of the Constitution probably didn’t consider Americans’ rights to water, but it is now becoming an issue that the country is going to have to address.
As with most things here in West...
Refusing to talk about race DOES NOT EQUAL the end of racism. I do not presume to know what it means to be a black woman in America, because I haven’t had those experiences. It is also not my place to...
