race and education
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Former Student Sues Illinois High School for Blatant, Widespread Racism
A former student has sued an Illinois high school, citing multiple racist incidents he experienced and observed during his time at the school. According to CBS Chicago, 19-year-old Stanley Fabian observed and personally experienced multiple instances of racism during his time at Minooka Community High School. Fabian recounted an incident he experienced last year as…
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'Something I Cannot Accept': Rihanna Urges Support for Global Access to Education in New Op-Ed
Internationally renowned entertainer, fashion and beauty icon, mogul and philanthropist: all of these describe Rihanna, but in a new op-ed for The Guardian urging all of us to get involved in the fight for equal access to education, the multi-hyphenate reflects on her childhood in Barbados, where she admits that she “did not always love…
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Educators Shouldn't Be Afraid to Teach the History of the N-Word
Omarosa Manigault Newman, the senior White House staffer turned author, said recently during her book tour that she had heard a tape of President Donald Trump using the n-word during his time on the reality show The Apprentice. Trump denied the existence of any such tape, tweeting, “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary…
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Majority-White City Hopes to Leave Its Majority-Black School District
Gardendale, Ala., is a majority-white city that happens to be located in the mostly black Jefferson County school district … however, residents are pushing to change that. According to NPR, voters in Gardendale raised property taxes on themselves several years ago in an attempt to form their own independent school district. Gardendale Mayor Stan Hogeland…