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-- Hedge fund manager and prominent Harvard donor Bill Ackman helped lead the charge against Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned after conservative activists revealed she had plagiarized.

-- BI analyzed Ackman's wife's doctoral dissertation and found numerous instances of plagiarism.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-mit-dissertation-plagiarism-2024-1

Bill Ackman's celebrity academic wife Neri Oxman's dissertation is marred by plagiarism

Bill Ackman used plagiarism charges in pushing to remove Harvard's president, Claudine Gay. But new reporting shows his wife, Neri Oxman, also plagiarized.

Business Insider

https://substack.com/inbox/post/138519549 .

Skeletons in the closet: then there’s the fact that Johnson was named dean of a law school that never opened, whose namesake Judge Paul Pressler was (surprise, surprise) sued over sexual abuse by multiple men, and whose president was credibly accused of misappropriating funds. Huh.

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Speaker Mike Johnson’s Past Holds Many Unanswered Questions

And the Johnsons are busily trying to scrub it all

The Status Kuo
A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him.

Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.

ProPublica

https://www.theroot.com/tulsa-race-massacre-descendent-talks-death-of-hughes-va-1850915797

#WhitePriveledge: The 1921 harrowing act of #terrorism that destroyed “Black Wall Street” in #Tulsa. A #white mob descended on the neighborhood, with around between 75 and 300 #Black people being killed. More than 1,000 homes and almost every business was destroyed, leaving thousands of Black folks reeling. Over the summer, a lower #court dismissed the case.

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Tulsa Race Massacre Descendant Talks Death Of Hughes Van Ellis, One Of Its Last Remaining Survivors

Anneliese M. Bruner, great-granddaughter of a Tulsa survivor, spoke to the The Root in order to place the loss of Van Ellis in a historical context.

The Root

#WhitePriveledge: The people who were asked to move their #boat so that the #riverboat could #dock in its reserved space should simply have complied.

#StoryOfPlace: In Montgomery…the #righteousindignation of a #community found an outlet when #Blackpeople came to the defense of a #Blackman under #attack.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opinion/montgomery-brawl.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Opinion | The Montgomery Brawl Was, for Some, a Clarifying Moment

It had a sense of historical correction.

The New York Times