WGA Deal, Kendi’s Collapse, Russell Brand Fallout, “Karen” Backlash

Updates: WGA Deal & North Carolina ESAs [00:45]
Kendi’s Collapse [06:51]

An Ambitious Antiracism Center Scales Back Amid Allegations of Poor Management (New York Times, 9/23/23)
What I Saw While Working at Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University (The Daily Beast, 9/23/23)
Is Ibram X. Kendi a Racist? (National Review, 9/21/23)
Read: Ibram X. Kendi addresses allegations about BU’s antiracist center (Boston.com, 9/25/23)
Ibram X. Kendi responds to Boston University’s antiracist center layoffs (Fox News, 9/24/23)
Ibram Kendi Anti-Racism Center Produced Just Two New Research Papers Since Founding (National Review, 9/20/23)
What Exactly Happens at the Center for Antiracist Research? (Wall Street Journal, 9/21/23)
Conservatives Hail Culture War Victory in Ibram X. Kendi Layoffs (Newsweek, 9/15/23)
Amid mass layoffs, BU Center for Antiracist Research accused of mismanagement of funds, disorganization (The Daily Free Press, 9/21/23)
The Ibram Kendi Videotape … Finally Revealed (Fairfax Schools Monitor, 5/18/22)
DEI programs in universities are being cut across the country. What does this mean for higher education? (CNN, 7/14/23)

Russell Brand Fallout [23:38]

Russell Brand and why the allegations took so long to surface (The Guardian, 9/24/23)
Russell Brand Posts First Video Since Sexual Assault Allegations: ‘It’s Been an Extraordinary and Distressing Week’ (Variety, 9/22/23)
YouTube CEO defends decision to demonetize Russell Brand’s channel amid sexual assault allegations (CBS, 9/22/23)
British Government Accused of Muzzling Media Coverage of Russell Brand (The Daily Beast, 9/25/23)
Russell Brand Fallout Continues: Australian Tour Canceled As YouTube, BBC, Publisher Back Away (Forbes, 9/20/23)
Rumble Faces Its Biggest Test in Russell Brand Fight (Newsweek, 9/21/23)
The Unspeakable Truth about Russell Brand (The Spectator, 9/22/23)
Russell Brand’s Timeline of Scandal and Controversy (New York Times, 9/19/23)
Russell Brand Content Removed From BBC Because ‘It Now Falls Below Public Expectations’ (Variety, 9/19/23)
Russell Brand: trial by media? (The Week, 9/18/23)
UK police open investigation after allegations of sexual offenses against Russell Brand (CNN, 9/25/23)
Is Russell Brand “innocent until proven guilty”? In a court of law, yes; in the court of public opinion, probably not. Sometimes that’s how justice must be done. (Words For the Wise, 9/18/23)

“Karen” Backlash [36:07]

‘Victoria’s Secret Karen’ Video: Lawsuits Show What Viewers Didn’t See (New York Times, 9/23/23)
‘Citi Bike Karen’ viral video shows why we shouldn’t rush to judgment (USA Today, 5/23/23)
Don’t Call Her ‘Karen’ (New York Times, 7/27/23)
A Nigerian American woman raised $85,000 after she appeared to be chased by a white woman
in a New Jersey Victoria’s Secret (Insider, 7/14/23)
Lawsuit Claims There’s More to ‘Victoria’s Secret Karen’ Story (The Daily Beast, 9/24/23)
Viral, Out-Of-Context Clips Make Victims Like Pregnant Citi Bike Woman Into Villains Because They’re White (The Federalist, 5/19/23)
The right’s new viral video fixation (Semafor, 5/24/23)
A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning (New York Times, 12/25/20)