Rapper and activist Kendrick Lamar made a surprise visit to Compton College where he delivered the commencement address. Dr. Keith Curry, president of Compton College with rapper Kendrick Lamar. “I wanted to come out here just to tell y’all how much I appreciate y’all. I’m proud of the city of Compton, I’m proud of Compton College,…
The showdown between ByteDance and Congress has had people on the edges of their seats, not just to see how it plays out, but when. Mark your calendars, we are just a few months from the free speech fight many have been waiting for. From Reuters: A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set a fast-track…
* Law firms increasingly look to lateral whole groups at a time. [American Lawyer] * Attorney for the lawyer suing Netflix over Baby Reindeer thinks they can win. [Hollywood Reporter] * Lawyer shows up drunk to DUI sentencing. [CBS News] * Congress keeps throwing around contempt and it’s mostly making voters roll their eyes. [NPR]…
As we earlier reported here, both the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) ended their recent Hollywood strikes by successfully negotiating new collective agreements. However, the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) continues in parallel Canadian negotiations on a new Independent Production Agreement (IPA) with …
Y’all seeing this? (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Missouri Attorney General Andy Bailey is the thirstiest public official in the country. If he’s not hanging out with rightwing podcasters, he’s tweeting love notes to Elon Musk. If he’s not threatening Target for making child-sized Pride t-shirts, he’s suing the Biden administration over woke school…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Two prominent Republican lawmakers are accusing the U.S. Department of Education of “stonewalling” an investigation into the botched rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The U.S. Government Accountability Office opened an…
With the goal of making legal scholarship freely available outside of “proprietary and predatory frameworks,” Yale Law School has launched Law Archive, a free and open archive for publishing legal scholarship. Developed by Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library and the Center for Open Science (COS), which provides the OSF Preprints platform that hosts the site, the archive…
Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. This ambitious undertaking demands technical expertise and embodies the true essence of interdisciplinary collaboration. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet. This requires the seamless integration of knowledge and skills across various disciplines to…
Not only would this be for the benefit of society, and for the best learning experience of all students when in the UK, it would also support the higher education sector which is a key player in research & development and skills, but currently hamstrung by funding if certain income streams are capped for other…
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Education’s new Title IX rule from taking effect in four states, marking the controversial rule’s first significant legal setback. In April, the department expanded regulations…