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Central Coast’s new culture war flashpoint: High school sex-ed

Monday, February 5th, 2024

via The Mercury News (California)

Pushback against classes that discuss LGBTQ+ issues is growing, even in progressive bastions like Santa Cruz County.

Racism, Parent Involvement, Sex Education

Francis Howell eyes revised Black history, literature, drops ‘social justice standards’

Monday, February 5th, 2024

via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)

After a tumultuous month of student protests, national headlines and community outrage, Francis Howell School District is considering revised curricula for its Black history and Black literature…

Racism, School Board – General

What role does Black History Month play in an America where truth no longer matters?

Sunday, February 4th, 2024

via San Francisco Chronicle (California)

In a modern America where truth seems to have lost its value, Black History Month takes on more meaning.

Racism

Regional myths fueled Betsy Gaines Quammen’s look at “True West”

Sunday, February 4th, 2024

via The Colorado Sun (Colorado)

The author examined how both the pandemic and political polarization, informed by those uniquely western myths, divided the country.

Racism

This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on ‘Woke Kindergarten.’ Test scores fell even further

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

via San Francisco Chronicle (California)

This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on ‘Woke Kindergarten'. Test scores fell even further

School Board – General, Book Bans, Racism

Our stories can’t be erased. They’re part of America’s history that children must know

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

via Miami Herald (Florida)

Carter Woodson, the second Black man to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard in 1912, is the scholar who launched what would become Black History Month.

Racism

Battle for Alabama libraries reaches Athens

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

via The Decatur Daily (Alabama)

ATHENS — Residents of Athens and Limestone County sparred over the propriety of library materials for children at an Athens-Limestone County Public Library board meeting this week as a statewide

Racism, Parent Involvement

Commentary: What makes sociology classes a target of political attacks?

Friday, February 2nd, 2024

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

Why is sociology a canary in a coal mine for state government?

Racism

Delaware County church-related events: Feb. 2, 2024 edition

Friday, February 2nd, 2024

via Delco Times (Pennsylvania)

Classes, sales, food banks, trips and more activities associated with churches

Racism

Gaskin: Power of Black agency something to celebrate

Friday, February 2nd, 2024

via Boston Herald (Massachusetts)

There is no issue or agenda item important to the Black community that we can't change for the better. That's efficacy, and that's what we need to work on in Boston's Black community.

Racism

How Carter G. Woodson turned February into Black History Month

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

via The Washington Post (Washington)

Carter G. Woodson's classic 'The Mis-Education of the Negro' still resonates in today's charged political debates over how Black history is taught in schools.

Racism

Your guide to the L.A. City Council District 10 race: South L.A., Mid-City, Koreatown

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

via Los Angeles Times (California)

Incumbent Heather Hutt is running for a City Council District 10 seat against challengers Aura Vásquez, Eddie Anderson, Grace Yoo and Reggie Jones-Sawyer.

Racism

She was reprimanded for teaching a book on race. Then she tried again.

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

via The Washington Post (Washington)

South Carolina teacher Mary Wood decided over the summer that she had to teach Ta-Nehis Coates' 'Between the World and Me' again.

School Board – General, Racism

Arizona now offers provocative PragerU videos to schools

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

via Arizona Daily Star (Arizona)

Arizona's schools now have the option of providing lessons that include an animated video of Christopher Columbus saying "being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I

Racism

Texas Republicans who defied Gov. Greg Abbott on school vouchers face mounting primary attacks

Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

via The Texas Tribune (Texas)

As promised, the governor is going after members of his own party after some of them tanked his top legislative priority.

Racism

January 23, 2024 CALL TO ORDER Chairpers

Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

via Mitchell Republic (South Dakota)

January 23, 2024 CALL TO ORDER Chairperson Reider called the regular meeting of the Davison County Board of Commissioners to order at 9:00 a.m. All members of the Board were present. Also present was…

Racism

How an SBC retirement agency’s investing reveals tension over conservative values

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

via Tennessean (Tennessee)

With new Methodist denomination contract, an SBC agency has become "faith-based investing" leader among conservative evangelicals. But at what cost?

Racism

St. Louis Archdiocese is slow to share its history of owning slaves

Sunday, January 28th, 2024

via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)

Black Catholics in St. Louis say this legacy still shapes the archdiocese today.

Racism

Trump in Las Vegas: ‘We are not going to allow this horror to continue’ — PHOTOS

Saturday, January 27th, 2024

via Las Vegas Review-Journal (Nevada)

Former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump spoke to supporters at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Racism