Since first grade, Julian Morris, 16, has changed schools six times, swinging between predominantly white and predominantly Black classrooms. None has met all his needs, his mother said. Source link
President Biden on Thursday met with family members of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case as part of events this week aimed at shoring up his support among Black voters. Source link
President Biden on Thursday met with family members of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case as part of events this week aimed at shoring up his support among Black voters. Mr. Biden marked the 70th anniversary of the decision, which outlawed segregation in public schools, with a private […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — As North Carolina’s public university system considers a vote on changing its diversity policy, the system’s flagship university board voted Monday to cut funding for diversity programs in next year’s budget. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a change that would divert $2.3 million of diversity […]
Stonewall Jackson rides again. On Thursday, the Shenandoah County School Board, which had wiped away the names of Confederate generals from its schools in a 2020 vote, restored the names of Jackson and two other Virginia-based Confederate generals to its schools, according to WHSV-TV. The vote means that what has been known as Mountain View […]
Four years ago in the summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic and the George Floyd protests, the Shenandoah County, Va., school board met virtually and voted 5-1 to change the names of Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High. Both schools were named after Confederate officers, and in the climate in 2020, […]
The Shenandoah County Public Schools board voted 5-1 Thursday to revert the names of two schools in Quicksburg, Virginia, to those of Confederate officers during the Civil War. Mountain View High School will once again be called Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary School will return to Ashby Lee Elementary School. The latter […]
The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County for its conduct of the 2020 election and direct the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee this fall’s general election. The Georgia Recorder reported that the 2-1 vote came after investigators from the Georgia secretary of state’s office confirmed the county double-scanned 3,075 ballots […]
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday said Apple illegally interrogated staff about union sympathies in 2021. According to the ruling, Apple management at the company’s World Trade Center store in New York City violated federal labor law by questioning employees about their positions on unionization and confiscating pro-union fliers in break rooms. Monday’s decision […]
Many see the hit ’90s show “Will and Grace” as a turning point. As the first major network television show to feature homosexual characters, “Will and Grace” played a huge role in opening the floodgates for LGBT representation. In the years since, organizations like GLAAD have continued pushing for more and more LGBT characters and […]
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