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11-21-2024 8:50 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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Zaire Byrd (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
In many schools around the country, Black students have been more likely to receive punishments that remove them from the classroom, including suspensions, expulsions and being transferred to alternative schools. A decade ago, those gaps became the target of a newly energized reform movement spurred by the same reckoning that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Emmett Louis Till (AP Photo)
Newly unearthed research notes and letters from William Bradford Huie, the journalist whose reporting on the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till helped shape the public’s understanding of the crime, reveal that Huie deliberately concealed vital details that could have implicated additional participants in the murder. These documents, recently released by the descendants of one of the lawyers involved in the case, suggest that Huie prioritized his financial interests and the protection of his sources over the pursuit of truth and justice.
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Kayleigh Butler (AP Photo/Kenya Hunter, File)
Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Shontel Brown of Ohio pressed the FDA to finalize the proposed rule soon. The target date has been pushed back to September. Rep. Nydia Velázquez of New York joined Pressley and Brown in spearheading the letter. It isn't uncommon for the FDA to have items on the regulatory agenda for years. Research has liked formaldehyde in hair-straightening products to increase rates of cancer.
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Marvin Ellison, Lowe's CEO (AP Photo, File)
Home improvement chain Lowe’s is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of a few other companies who have altered their programs since the end of affirmative action in higher education and amid conservative backlash online. In an internal memo, Lowe’s executive leadership said the company began reviewing” the company's diversity and inclusion programs in July 2023 and has made some changes to ensure the programs are “lawful” and aligned with its commitment to “include everyone.”
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Earl Lewis, director of the Center for Social Solutions (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
Nonprofits like Forward Through Ferguson see a surge in giving while their cause is in the spotlight, only to see donations quickly dry up. The racial reckoning sparked in Ferguson, Missouri, was supposed to be different. But it didn’t turn out that way, slowing or, in some cases, stopping the progress that these new community groups hoped to make by the 10th anniversary of Brown’s death.
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Educators with credentials produce better outcomes for children, according to the many studies that Usma cites. And she provides recommendations that can help lower the roadblocks early childhood teachers face to earning credentials.
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention. She takes credit for parts of President Joe Biden’s record while casting herself as a new leader who rails against “the politics of the past.” Harris so far appears to be successfully harmonizing two competing messages, much to the frustration of former President Donald Trump and his allies.
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Ellen Lo Hoffman (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
For some Christian progressives, the lack of acknowledgement by their churches or ministries of the racial reckoning in 2020 was the final push to go elsewhere.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says it's now raised $540 million for the presidential race against Donald Trump. Democrats have had no problems getting supporters to open their wallets. Her campaign said it saw a surge of donations during last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Harris and running mate Tim Walz accepted their nominations.
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Business owners who cater to Florida’s LGBTQ+ tourists said Wednesday that it was the latest attempt by officials in the state to erase the LGBTQ+ community. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis previously championed legislation to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, and supported a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
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