Educators, students, and organizers are pushing back against school censorship and book bans by participating in the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Truth Day of Action, which includes pop-up book giveaways and screenings of documentaries about resisting curriculum censorship.
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The Post-Floyd Backslide: More Crime, and a Police Crackdown
Five years after the murder of George Floyd, the racial reckoning has come to an end, with corporations reneging on their pledges, and the Trump administration rolling back policies that were meant to address racial equity, leading to a potential increase in crime and police crackdowns.
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Healing Requires Transparency: Why Students Need Police Accountability
Black students at Northern Illinois University are concerned about the dismantling of the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which was created to track police misconduct and hold officers accountable, and are now pushing for local measures to ensure police transparency.
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Whitewashing in Real Time from Harriet Tubman to Target Stores
The U.S. National Park Service has restored its original webpage on the history of the Underground Railroad after backlash for deleting a photo of abolitionist Harriet Tubman and segments of text describing the horrors of slavery.
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Silent Crisis: When Bullying Targets Black Students
For more than a year, 14-year-old Kelaia Turner endured bullying from schoolmates and even her teacher at Turner Middle School in Greenville, South Carolina. They teased her about her looks, […]
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The Audacity of NOPE: Black Journalists Resist Trump’s NABJ Appearance
by Joseph Williams After a day of taking fire from members for inviting Donald Trump to their annual convention — and reportedly flubbing the invite for Vice President Kamala Harris — […]