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DeSantis is defending new slavery teachings. Civil rights leaders see a pattern of ‘policy violence’
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via The Washington Post (Maryland)Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida's new governor
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New state education office boosts conservative school board members in Florida, emails show
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)A new office in the Florida Department of Education wants to help conservative school board members across the state, emails show.
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Florida’s Black history standards continue to cause a national stir
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
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Missouri school board that voted to drop anti-racism resolution might consider revised version
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via The News Tribune (Missouri)The president of the Missouri school board that voted to revoke its anti-racism resolution now says the resolution could be kept, but revised.
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Northwest Allen County Schools board pauses vote on library conference attendance request
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via The Journal Gazette (Indiana)The Northwest Allen County Schools board wants more information about a November library conference before voting on an employee's request to attend.
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Ron DeSantis hits back at VP Kamala Harris in Black history feud
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via Register Herald (West Virginia)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is hitting back at Vice President Kamala Harris for criticizing the state's curriculum, which includes the claim that African-American slaves actually benefited from their…
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After DeSantis reboot, Florida governor sticks to familiar themes
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via Palm Beach Post (Florida)Just days after his campaign shed staff and promised a major reboot, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis strayed little from his familiar script during a speech.
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Tennessee educators file lawsuit challenging law limiting school lessons on race, sex and bias
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via The Seattle Times (Washington)Tennessee educators are pushing back again a ban on the teachings of certain concepts on race, gender and bias in classrooms by filing a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of the law.
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Missouri school board that voted to drop anti-racism resolution might consider a revised version
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via The Seattle Times (Washington)The president of the Missouri school board that voted to revoke its anti-racism resolution now says the resolution could be kept, but revised.
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Teachers sue over Tennessee law restricting what they can teach about race, gender, and bias
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via Times Free Press (Tennessee)Tennessee's largest teacher organization has joined with five public school educators to legally challenge a 2-year-old state law restricting what they can teach about race, gender and bias in their…
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Tennessee sued over ‘prohibited concept’ law regulating race …
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via The Tennessean (Tennessee)Legislative Republicans passed the measure, often referred to as the
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DeSantis: Harris trying to push ‘fake narrative’ about Florida Black history curriculum
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via The Kansas City Star (Kansas)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Vice President Harris is trying to push a 'fake narrative,' about Florida's Black history school curriculum - which has sparked criticism across the nation, including from the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus. 'She [Harris] hopped on that plane quickly on Friday to come to Florida to spew this...
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African American Policy Forum to host 4th Annual Critical Race Theory Summer School
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via WBRC (Alabama)Leading scholars and advocates will convene in five-day hybrid event series to discuss the state of racism in America and strategies to promote racial justice in a time of growing censorship and…
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Clarence Page: It is high time to put political differences aside for the good of the country
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via Press Herald (Maine)Sen. Tommy Tuberville's effort to hold military promotions hostage to politics over providing military personnel access to abortion violates his pledge to support our troops and their families.
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Decrying attempts to ‘bury history,’ Biden designates Emmett Till national monument ⋆ Michigan Advance
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via Michigan Advance (Michigan)WASHINGTON — On what would have been the 82nd birthday of Emmett Till, a Black boy kidnapped and murdered by two white men in Mississippi, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated a new national…
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July 18, 2023 CALL TO ORDER Chairperson
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via Mitchell Republic (South Dakota)July 18, 2023 CALL TO ORDER Chairperson Reider called the regular meeting of the Davison County Board of Commissioners to order at 9:00 a.m. Members of the Board present were Claggett, Kiner, Blaalid,…
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Biden authorizes monument for Emmett Till
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. (Arkansas)President Joe Biden signed Tuesday a proclamation to establish a new national monument dedicated to Emmett Till, who was brutally murdered at age 14 in 1955, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, whose…
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Francis Howell school board will revisit anti-racism resolution after outcry
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Illinois)The all-white school board has flipped to a conservative majority since passing the nonbinding resolution.
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