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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…
Parent Involvement, Racism, School Board – General
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
Racism
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...
Racism
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…
Racism, Book Bans
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.
Racism
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…
Parent Involvement, Racism
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…
Racism
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.
Racism, School Board – General
The ‘parental rights’ group igniting the GOP
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
via The Washington Post (Maryland)Moms for Liberty is a conservative parental rights organization that is increasingly influencing the policies of the Republican Party. The Southern Poverty Law Center has called it an extremist group.
Parent Involvement, Racism
Decrying attempts to ‘bury history,’ Biden designates Emmett Till national monument
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via home - georgia recorder (Georgia)President Joe Biden designated a new national monument at sites connected to the Emmett Till lynching that spurred the civil rights movement.
Parent Involvement, Racism
Fact check: Does a new Florida curriculum teach that enslaved people ‘benefited from slavery?’
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via WRAL (North Carolina)By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa, Louis Jacobson, and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact reportersVice President Kamala Harris drew wide attention when she called a section about slavery in Florida's new middle school…
Racism
How the right ended up trying to softpedal enslavement
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via The Washington Post (Maryland)The debate gained fervor as Gov. Ron DeSantis's political ambitions grew.
Racism
Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via Houston Chronicle (Texas)The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave...
Racism
Biden establishes new national monument dedicated to Emmett Till
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via The Washington Post (Maryland)The monument is dedicated to Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, whose activism in the wake of her son's brutal 1955 murder helped spark the civil rights movement.
Racism
Biden honors Emmett Till and his mother with new national monument
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via abc7NY (New Jersey)President Joe Biden honors Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley in a new national monument that spans several locations in Mississippi and Illinois.
Racism
Florida approves conservative PragerU lessons for schools
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
Racism, School Board – General
US House Republicans bring culture wars into spending showdown with Senate
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via The Gazette (Colorado)Racism
US House Republicans face possible infighting as they turn to spending
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
via The Gazette (Colorado)Racism