News From A Colorful Perspective
As public conversation over President Trump’s proposed (and rejected) inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census continues, another census is reflecting intersectional concern over critical issues facing the Black LGBT community. Related story: Republicans Are Not Giving Up on the 2020 Citizenship Question As part of the 2019…
Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson was emailing with a concerned parent in April 2018 asking about the curriculum for teaching about the Holocaust when he wrote that he wouldn’t call the genocide “a factual, historical event.” Latson added in the now-published emails that Holocaust studies are “dealt…
New York City Schools Richard Carranza was sued last month by three white, female Department of Education (DOE) officials who allege in their lawsuit that Carranza demoted them because they were white and fostered a toxic environment. “Under Carranza’s leadership, DOE has swiftly and irrevocably silenced, sidelined and punished plaintiffs and…
Second-grade teacher Tammy Jordan started in 2016 at Larchmont Elementary School in Mount Laurel, N.J. She was one of the first Black teachers at the school since 1990. But by the end of the 2018 school year, Jordan quit her job and filed a lawsuit because of the extremity of…
On Tuesday, eight school board members of the Fort Worth Independent School District unanimously voted to fire English teacher Georgia Clark for tweeting at President Donald Trump: “Mr. President, Fort Worth Independent School District is loaded with illegal students from Mexico,” Clark wrote May 17 on her now-deleted Twitter account,…
Doane University library director at its main campus in Nebraska decided to display photos showing students in blackface. The president is apologizing, meanwhile, a faculty group actually supports the decision to show the photos. “It has been brought to my attention that there was a display outside of our library in the…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is proposing to completely eliminate all federal funding for the Special Olympics. On Wednesday, DeVos faced intense backlash on Twitter from politicians (including fellow Republicans), athletes and celebrities. DeVos’ plan is to stop the funding for the Special Olympics as a part of $7 billion in…
New $1 million donation to NCFL focuses on literacy in Washington D.C.-area and northern Alabama Originally Published by Toyota Motor North America. To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), Toyota is donating $1 million to help break generational cycles of poverty through family literacy…
Fifty people, nationwide, including Hollywood heavy hitters Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Lori Loughlin, have been arrested in a sting by the FBI, which involved a large-scale university admissions scam to get affluent students accepted into elite universities by helping them cheat on college entrance exams. This new controversial…
A new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data finds that the “post-Millennial” generation, which are those born after 1996, “is already the most racially and ethnically diverse generation, as a bare majority of 6-to 21-year-olds (52%) are non-Hispanic whites.” The only population of youth that has grown substantially…
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