Trump Thinking About "Changing" the First Amendment
As a student in a course entirely devoted to discussing the First Amendment, its importance, and its implications, one can imagine my...
The March on Washington
On a sweltering August day in the middle of summer of 1963, 250,000 demonstrators gathered on the Washington Monument to March for "Jobs...
UC Berkeley Protests
As a California citizen, I can tell you with full certainty that we are not crazy liberals that hate conservatives and Donald Trump and...
Proponents for Anti-Civil Rights
You know the names of the Civil Rights leaders. MLK. Malcom X. Medgar Evers. Rosa Parks. They're infamous, written all over history books...
Board of Regents v. Bakke
The side arguing for the Board of Regents at University of California at Davis brought up many valid points regarding Mr. Bakke's claim...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6th of 1965, as a response to assaults on protesters in...
Plessy v. Ferguson rehashed
Homer Plessy was a 7/8's white man that, under Louisiana law, was considered a black man. That meant that he, as a train passenger, was...
State v. Mann
A two-hundred-year-old court case was rehashed in Talking About Freedom today, as we staged a Mock Trial of the State v. Mann case. The...
The Supreme Court
The Judicial Branch of our government is by far the smallest, but perhaps the most closely correlated with the fundamental principles of...
Welcome to Women of Wisdom
Though Professor Smith grouped us together based on our seating arrangements, the Women of Wisdom became fast friends today. Huddled...
