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Louisiana to get $156M in military spending
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via NOLA (Louisiana)WASHINGTON – Roughly $156 million for Louisiana military projects – and a 5.2% pay raise for enlisted service members – are among the few issues on which the U.S. House
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Have a back-to-school battle plan
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via The Washington Times, LLC (District of Columbia)Over the next month, American children will head back to school, much to their chagrin and often to the delight of parents.
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Oldest Black fraternity moves convention over Florida’s ‘racist’ policies
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)The organization — which once counted civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall among its members — has decided to relocate its convention, citing…
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Federal court deals blow to conservative group in LGBTQ-related Olentangy schools case
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)The judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have required Olentangy schools to make immediate changes to its harassment policies.
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‘120 Banned Books’ among the latest targets for Clay County parent
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via Jacksonville.com (Florida)Irony alert. One Clay County parent has become a prolific book challenger. Among his latest school book ban attempts:
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Letters: Military isn’t political
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)A military journalist rebuts a recent column about changes needed in the military such as the denial of critical race theory and gender-affirming care.
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Dallas police release body camera footage of shooting involving officer
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via CBS News (Pennsylvania)The Dallas Police Department has released body camera footage from a shooting involving a police officer on July 25.
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College Board responds to comparisons between its AP course and Florida’s Black history curriculum
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via CBS News (Pennsylvania)The College Board said Thursday it "resolutely" disagrees with any notion that enslavement was beneficial for African Americans.
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‘Disgusting’: Black Republicans livid over DeSantis’ slavery attack
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via POLITICO (New York)Most saw it as an unforced error at a time when Black Republicans feel they're making strides within the party.
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‘I’m not budging’: Ron DeSantis says he has beaten ‘left’s agenda’ at Lincoln Dinner
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via The Des Moines Register (Iowa)Thirteen GOP presidential hopefuls are speaking in front of what's expected to be a sellout crowd of over 1,000 guests in Des Moines.
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DeSantis defending new slavery teachings; civil rights leaders see pattern of ‘policy violence’
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via The News Tribune (Missouri)Civil rights leaders see pattern of 'policy violence'
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Herstory Writers Network’s Erika Duncan of Sag Harbor helps migrants, former inmates and grandmas tell their stories
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via Newsday LLC (New York)How do you encourage people to tell their personal stories in an open and honest way to elicit empathy in their readers? That is the question that has driven Erika Duncan, founder of the Herstory Writers Network, for the past 27 years.
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Who will surrender in Congress’s NDAA battle?
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via POLITICO (New York)After clearing the Senate by a wide margin, is the NDAA back on track, or are the divisive cultural issues clogging the House bill still threatening its final passage? One longtime Senate insider and retired two-star general charts the endgame.
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It’s Byron Donalds vs. Ron DeSantis in the war over slavery
Friday, July 28th, 2023
via POLITICO (New York)With help from Rishika Dugyala, Jesse Naranjo and Teresa Wiltz
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College Board rejects Florida stance that slavery was beneficial for African Americans
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via azcentral.com (Arizona)College Board says slavery was not in any way beneficial for African Americans, pushes back on Florida Gov. DeSantis.
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Florida Black History curriculum: Leaders condemn new standards
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via Palm Beach Post (Florida)West Palm Mayor Keith James says he was
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DeSantis defends new slavery teachings, civil rights leaders decry “policy violence” pattern
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via CBS News (Pennsylvania)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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Letters: Free school meals Water won’t hurt you Military abortion rules
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)A longtime schools employee writes that Orange County providing free meals to all students is a step in the right direction.
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DeSantis is defending new slavery teachings. Civil rights leaders see a pattern of ‘policy violence.’
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
via A.D.N. & Co (Alaska)Florida's teachers now must instruct middle school students that people in slavery 'developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.'
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