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Supreme Court Rules Unanimously for Better Education for Students With Disabilities
On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that school districts must provide students with disabilities the opportunity to make “appropriately ambitious” progress in their education, and that decision will likely have an impact on the 6.5 million students with disabilities in the United States. According to NPR, Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District…
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Retired Police Chief Detained by Customs Agents at JFK Because His 1st Name Is Hassan
A retired police chief was detained and questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport upon his return from a trip abroad earlier this month because his first name is Hassan. Hassan Aden, 52, is a retired Greenville, N.C., police chief and a former deputy chief with…
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‘Trump … Will Get Rid of All of You’: Man Indicted for Kicking, Yelling Threatening Slurs at Muslim Delta Employee
A traveler who went on a racist rant at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City earlier this year was indicted Thursday on charges of unlawful imprisonment and aggravated assault for kicking and screaming at a Muslim Delta Airlines employee. Robin Rhodes, 57, was reportedly returning to the U.S. after a trip to Aruba…
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Underground Season 2 Episode 2 Recap
I’m 1:30 into episode two of WGN’s Underground and I’m already crying. Sure, Venus is in Retrograde, my car is stuck in the ice and I’m craving salty snacks but I’m mostly crying because Bokeem Woodbine’s Daniel has been teaching himself how to read and write. This is courageous AF for any slave to do…
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Grace Dolan-Sandrino
At 16, Grace Dolan-Sandrino is already leading the charge among young people in resisting Donald Trump’s agenda. In November, she and thousands of other students in Washington, D.C., walked out of their classrooms to protest the then-president elect. “We are trying to get our voices heard,” she said. “We were not able to vote. We…
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Editorial Boards Welcome ‘a Conversation About Our Nonwhite History’
“For too long, the history of Dallas’ white majority has overpowered the stories of others who helped build the city’s culture,” the Dallas Morning News editorial board declared last week, launching a project inviting readers “to help tell the story of communities often overlooked here.” “We’ve had more than a dozen thoughtful submissions in the…
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Tracing Your Roots: Was My Civil War Vet Ancestor an Overseer’s Son?
Family lore and death records contain conflicting information about the parentage of a forebear who served in the colored troops during the Civil War. Dear Professor Gates: I’m writing for help in tracing the parents of my third great-grandfather, William Owen Van Vaxen Goodlow. He lived in Missouri and Iowa, was married to Mary Nickelson…