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There’s no accusation that Triece mistreated or otherwise engaged in inappropriate behavior that could put kids in danger. Despite volunteering at her children's school for five years, Triece has been told she is no longer welcome.
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
In 2000 Kathleen Brose led an organization called Parents Involved in Community Schools which filed a lawsuit against the Seattle School District, challenging its tie-breaker rule in Seattle Public Schools which gave preference to racial minorities in school assignments when all else was equal. The lawsuit eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court which in June 2007 ruled in favor of Parents Involved. In the following article Brose describes the origins of the lawsuit and her attitude toward the half century struggle to integrate Seattles schools in light of that ruling. A link to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling appears at the end of this article.
In late June, 2007, I wrote the following for a Seattle Times newspaper opinion piece shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Parents Involved in Community Schools:
In 2000, Parents Involved in Community Schools, a nonprofit organization made up of diverse parents and community members sued the Seattle School District to stop discrimination against our children.
We told the School District that the use of the race of a student to decide to assign our ninth-graders to a high school was illegal, unconstitutional, immoral and just plain wrong.
Our children were denied entrance to certain high schools because of their skin color, and both nonwhite and white children were affected by this racist policy.
The Seattle schools had never been segregated and were already integrated. The use of the racial tie-breaker was not necessary. Our children just wanted to attend school along with their peers and to maintain friendships.
It is difficult enough being a teenager in our fast-paced world without being forced to go to a school you don’t want to go to, just because you have the “wrong” skin color. Our children are faced with so many more choices at an early age, which makes parenting much more difficult today than a generation ago. When you are a single parent, or a parent without a car, and your child is going to a school that is up to two hours away by
Murang'a Women Representative Sabina Chege has donated foodstuff to more than 100 commercial sex workers in the county leaving them joyous.
According to a post on her Facebook page, Ms Chege said the sex workers reached out to her for assistant.
\"The commercial sex workers through their chair Gaceri, as popularly known, reached out on me to support them with food, citing hard times during this Covid-19,\" Sabina tweeted.
According to the woman rep, they have agreed to look for long term solutions to ensure the commercial sex workers can provide for themselves and eventually quit prostitution.
\"We have agreed with them that I will find a long-lasting solution that will be putting food on their table with a promise of quitting that business.
bhamcityschools.org Birmingham City Schools will return to remote learning beginning December 7 as the number of COVID-19 cases increase in Birmingham and health officials project additional increases in the coming weeks. Superintendent Dr. Mark Sullivan said the school district will reassess the impact of the pandemic and decide on the next steps after the winter […]
In this week’s Defender… The toughness and tenacity of Dr. Grenita Lathan, former interim Supt. of HISD, is what got the school district through Hurricane Harvey, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Texas Winter Storm and getting Black schools back on track.In an EXCLUSIVE exit interview with the new Defender Education Reporter Laura Oyeneho, Dr. Lathan shows […]
The UN mission in Libya has urged leaders to stick to the December 24 timeline for presidential and legislative polls it hopes will help stabilise the war-battered nation.
In a win for anti-police violence activists in Oakland, the Oakland School Board voted unanimously Wednesday to disband the OUSD Police Dept., committing to eliminate the department that has 20 sworn officers and 120 school resource officers.
The 7-0 vote followed a two-hour debate and several weeks of a campaign to cut the department led by the Black Organizing Project (BOP), a West Oakland-based group that has been organizing against police presence in Oakland schools since 2011.
The school board passed the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department, or the George Floyd Resolution for short, which calls for the board to disband OUSD police and reallocate the resources used on police to student support personnel like social workers, psychologists and restorative justice practitioners.
According to BOP, Oakland’s school board is the first in the nation to move to disband its own police department.
The vote by the school board comes a day after the Oakland City Council voted to keep the budget for the Oakland Police Dept. largely intact, voting 5-1 to cut OPD’s budget by $2.5 million for the next fiscal year by delaying the start of a police academy.
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BLACKPAST.ORG AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS, from 2009 to the present:
The following are various awards and distinctions given to BlackPast.org since its founding.
National Education Associations Carter G. Woodson Memorial Award
Award Ceremony: July 2, 2015
Given by the NEA for activities in Black affairs that significantly impact education and the achievement of equal opportunity. http://bit.ly/1GVidTa
Washington State Jefferson Award, 2015
Award Ceremony: April 13, 2015
Given by Seattle CityClub to our founder, Dr. Quintard Taylor, for his work on BlackPast.org. Winners represent unsung heroes; those who are making a difference in their community, the nation, and the world, through their jobs, or volunteer service. http://bit.ly/1FGKZd1
James and Janie Washington Foundation Award for Documentation, 2014
Date: November 1, 2014
Given by the James and Janie Washington Foundation, http://bit.ly/1CYKJWD
MARS Best Free Websites of 2011
Date: June 17, 2011
Given by MARS: Emerging Technologies in Reference, Reference and Users Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association (ALA), http://bit.ly/1Cqp7jL
Charles Payton Award for Heritage Advocacy, 2011
Date: Awards Ceremony, Seattle Museum of History and Industry, April 26, 2011
Given by the Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO),
http://bit.ly/1NglOlX
Best of Reference: Hybrid Print and Electronic Resources, 2009
Date: Awards Ceremony, New York Public Library, May 7, 2009
Given by the New York Public Library Association Reference and Adult Services Section,
http://bit.ly/1CYKJWD
David A. Paterson, sworn in as Governor on March 17, 2008, is the first legally blind American Governor, the first black Governor of New York State, and only the fourth black Governor of any state.
Paterson has been serving as Lieutenant Governor of New York, elected in 2006 after serving in the state Senate since 1985, representing Harlem. He became the first non-white legislative leader in New York State history when he became minority leader of the Senate in 2002. In 2004 in Boston, he was the first visually impaired person to address the Democratic National Convention. Paterson has a reputation of being open, affable, and able to work across party lines. His priorities as Lt. Governor have been reducing domestic violence, funding stem cell research, development of minority and women owned businesses, and the use of renewable energy sources. He is a member of the Democratic National Committee and is considered politically liberal.
David Paterson was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 20, 1954 to Portia and Basil Paterson. His father was the first non-white Secretary of State for New York, who had represented the same Harlem district that his son did later. Growing up in a household with powerful political connections, the younger Paterson met many of the elected leaders of the African American community. He grew up legally blind, after an eye infection as an infant left him without sight in his left eye and with limited vision in his right eye. His family moved to a school district that would educate him in regular classrooms, and he went on to graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in History from Columbia University in 1977. He obtained his Juris Doctor (law degree) from Hofstra University Law School in 1982.
Paterson, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, lives in Harlem with his wife Michelle Paige Paterson, their son Alex, and Ashley, Mrs. Paterson’s daughter from a prior marriage. Paterson completed the New York City Marathon in 1999. He is a member of
Police Commissioner Tyrone Griffith said Wednesday said there is no clear evidence at this point of a serial killer targeting sex workers in The City, following the gruesome slaying of a Jamaican woman, reputed to be a sex worker.Detectives were seeking to determine whether there are any patterns that might link her death to a rash of similar attacks on women who ply their trade at night on City streets – all between the months of July and September.But an expert on human trafficking has warned that numerous non-national women, particularly from Jamaica, are vulnerable to gross acts of violence because of their fragile economic situation.
Two white high school students from Arizona's Highland High School thought it would be funny to reenact the death of George Floyd
The DeKalb County School District will continue preparing its road map for bringing students and teachers back to classrooms for the upcoming school year, district officials said after state officials announced guidance for K-12 school systems.
“The DeKalb County School District will now align its framework plan with the state’s guidance,” Superintendent Ramona Tyson said.
“The District appreciates the fact that (the Georgia Department of Education) recognizes local school districts need the authority and flexibility to meet varying complexities.”
Should the coronavirus’ spread be considered substantial when school is set to begin, for example, school buildings would close and be disinfected, with districts implementing distance learning and delivering meals to students.
Tyson said recently she was waiting for the state’s recovery guidance to consider it with other recommendations the district has taken from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health department officials.
(AP) - Missi Magness wanted her children back in school. The parent of a first-grader and a sixth-grader who attend schools on Indianapolis’ southeast side struggled trying to oversee her children’s schooling while working from home this spring. “They need the structure, they need the socialization, they just need to go,” said Magness. “‘I love […]
A Florida principal was fired for a second time after refusing to acknowledge the Holocaust existed. William Latson of Spanish... View Article
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It is difficult enough being a teenager in our fast-paced world without being forced to go to a school you don’t want to go to, just because you have the “wrong” skin color. Our children are faced with so many more choices at an early age, which makes parenting much more difficult today than a generation ago. When you are a single parent, or a parent without a car, and your child is going to a school that is up to two hours away
A federal lawsuit accused a Minnesota teacher of assaulting and singling out several of her Black elementary school students. The lawsuit was filed by Kirsten […]
