georgia
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‘You Are My Slave’: Ga. Mom Furious After White Student Targets Son During School’s Civil War Day
A Kennesaw, Ga., mother is demanding answers after a white student called her son a slave during the school’s Civil War Day last month. According to the Associated Press, Big Shanty Intermediate School—which is near Kennesaw Mountain, where Confederate soldiers once fired their cannons at Union troops—encouraged fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the…
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Ga. Teacher Told 6th-Graders to Create a ‘Colorful’ Nazi Mascot as Homework Assignment
Who comes up with these ideas? With whom do they hash these out or look them over? Because any reasonable person could have seen this one coming from a mile away. Nonetheless, a Gwinnett County, Ga., schoolteacher is under scrutiny after thinking it was a great idea to give sixth-graders a homework assignment that tasked…
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Black Stacey vs. White Stacey: A Lesson in Race Politics From Ga.
“I don’t wanna vote for her just because she’s black, you know?” I hate it when I hear things like that. It drives me nuts to hear the contortions that black folks will go through to explain, rationalize and then justify creating their own political impotence. Yet there I was sitting at a small neighborhood…
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US Supreme Court Grants Last-Minute Stay of Execution for Ga. Man Convicted by a Racist Juror
Keith Tharpe, a Georgia man who was convicted of murder in 1991 and sentenced to death, did not die as scheduled Tuesday. Instead, the U.S. Supreme Court intervened at the last moment and granted Tharpe a stay of execution just three-and-a-half hours after he was scheduled to be put to death by legal injection, the…
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86-Year-Old International Jewel Thief Doris Payne Is Once Again a Free Woman
Notorious international jewel thief Doris Payne, who has stolen some $2 million in jewelry over the past 60 years, is once again a free woman. Payne, who has found it hard to to quit old habits, was last arrested back in July at a Walmart in Chamblee, Ga., after she was charged with pinching about…
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Ga. Teacher Uses Racial Slur While Attempting to Brush Off 4th-Grader’s Offensive Comments
Some people need to not open their mouths ever, and a Georgia fourth-grade teacher apparently needs to be added to the list after she apparently used a racial slur in exactly the same breath she used to dismiss another student’s controversial comments. A perfectly teachable moment, ruined. According to WTVM, the incident unfolded earlier this…
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Tracing Your Roots: Have I Found My Ancestor’s Plantation?
She found a photo of her great-grandmother in the records of a historic plantation house in Georgia, but little information about her life under slavery. Dear Professor Gates: I have located my great-grandmother Cora Lundy in the 1880 census. I would like to learn about her life before 1880 but have so few clues. She…
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Ga. Teacher Who Compared Trump Campaign T-Shirts to Swastikas No Longer Teaching Students
A Cherokee County, Ga., high school teacher who told two students that their “Make America Great Again” T-shirts were akin to wearing swastikas and, thus, were not allowed in class has been removed from the classroom, the school principal confirmed Friday. The math teacher, identified as Lyn Orletsky, was seen on a viral video telling…
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Ga. School District Apologizes After Teacher Tells Students They Can’t Wear Trump Campaign Shirts, ‘Just Like You Cannot Wear a Swastika’
A Georgia school district has issued an apology after a teacher reportedly told two students that their “Make America Great Again” T-shirts, representing President Donald Trump’s campaign, wouldn’t be allowed in the classroom. According to the Associated Press, the apology was issued after video was circulated online showing a math teacher at River Ridge High…