University professor and critical race theory advocate Ibram X. Kendi attacked an attempt to defend standardized testing by a New York Times opinion writer on his Twitter account Sunday. Kendi argued ...

The New York Times published an opinion article Saturday that argued against the elimination of standardized tests in order to uphold racial equity principles. The piece, written by John McWhorter, ...

A New York Times columnist has called for embattled Harvard University president Claudine Gay’s ouster amid accusations of plagiarism, writing that the situation has reached “a tipping point.” John ...

Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter is a podcast host, the author of 20 books, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His new book, Pronoun Trouble, explores the recent ...

In Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America 1, Professor John McWhorter (who is Black) argues that DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—and the Third-Wave Antiracist movement that ...

New terms — like LatinX — are often pushed by activists to promote a more equitable world. But linguist John McWhorter says trying to enforce new words to speed up social change tends to backfire.

New York Times columnist and linguist John McWhorter discusses the rise and fall of "woke," DEI and affirmative action, and his new book on the history of pronouns.

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...