U.S. President Joe Biden is set to give a commencement address this Sunday at Morehouse, a historically Black college in Atlanta that counts Dr. Martin Luther King among its graduates. But the president’s coming speech has sparked consternation from the graduating class. Some students see Biden using Morehouse as a political tool for Black votes in an election year, and others are considering ways to protest his Middle East policies without overshadowing the celebration for their families. NPR has more.

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#Biden #Morehouse #Commencement #Graduation #College

Latest comic: Where's the crisis?

(Drawn before events of last week, but still relevant!)

#protest #columbia #gaza #college #firstamendment #cartoon #uspol

President Biden unveils Biden-Harris administration's plan to deliver #studentloan #debtrelief to 30 million more people.

#BidenHarris2024
#college
#education #debt #studentdebt

@uspolitics

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/08/president-joe-biden-outlines-new-plans-to-deliver-student-debt-relief-to-over-30-million-americans-under-the-biden-harris-administration/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR14dzSmbF_1-oRbKomavC5ruY8E8HyOzp6VcMAEsM0IlnChWuhYx9SyT5I_aem_Aek95WuWjMUVRS13vnn2SnOhKd6Zfa4hTS-El9sFhfkePz6JaSVr9jVNU_5nfbQ66SMlqFv9rIwsQ445DTYpdnnS

President Joe Biden Outlines New Plans to Deliver Student Debt Relief to Over 30 Million Americans Under the Biden-Harris Administration | The White House

Today, Biden-Harris Administration leaders will fan out across the country as President Biden announces his Administration’s new plans to cancel student debt for tens of millions of Americans.

^{The White House}

I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic.

This is from 2016.

#uspol #cartoon #protest #college #firstamendment

In the late ‘60s, to right-wing activists, communists were over-running #college campuses and #university administrators needed to be subpoenaed and law enforcement sent in to forcibly end protests.

In 2024, to right-wing activists, antisemites are over-running college campuses and university administrators need to be subpoenaed and law enforcement sent in to forcibly end protests.

A historian of the reaction to campus protests lays out the parallels:
https://theconversation.com/college-administrators-are-falling-into-a-tried-and-true-trap-laid-by-the-right-228732 @academicchatter

College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.

^{The Conversation}