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Mr. President, As we are painfully aware, the war in Ukraine continues to rage. Since I briefed this Council on 24 August, because of the fighting, at least 104 civilians, including 10 children have died and at least 253 civilians, including 25 children have been injured according to the Office of the High Commissioner for […]
Black scholars and students from across Canada met at UBC Robson Square on Saturday to discuss creating community and space for Black people at post-secondary institutions. The Community Making and Black Flourishing Through the Scarborough Charter symposium — which UBC and SFU cohosted — closed out the universities’ two-day Inter-Institutional Forum of the Scarborough National […]
Panellists at the first-ever forum on the Scarborough National Charter are hoping to address how to make campuses more inclusive for Black students and staff. The event, Community Making and Black Flourishing Through the Scarborough Charter, is being hosted by the University of British Columbia on May 13 and 14 at the Robson Square campus. Handel Wright, senior advisor to UBC’s president […]
On Wednesday, an estimated 1,000 parents and advocates from across the country rallied at the Education Department and the White House in opposition of the rules. Malachi Armstrong, the father of a kindergartner who attends a charter school in Philadelphia, was among the participants, who held signs, wore T-shirts with protest messages and repeated chants […]
Former President Donald Trump implemented the order, known as Title 42, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. His administration said the order was to help prevent the spread of the virus across the US’ borders with Mexico and Canada, but public health officials, at the time, suspected political motivations. The Biden . . .
The students — all minors and unnamed in the suit — are all current or former students at one of two campuses run by Duluth Edison Charter Schools, or DECS. The suit alleges that the school disproportionately disciplines Black students, who make up less than 3% of the student body, often disciplining only them in […]
Global supply-chain delays are so severe that some of the biggest U.S. retailers have resorted to an extreme—and expensive—tactic to try to stock shelves this holiday season: They are chartering their own cargo ships to import goods. Port delays, Covid-19 outbreaks and worker shortages have snarled the flow of products between Asia and North America, […]
Teacher at North Carolina charter school resigns after claims of ‘field slave’ comments
Black Hot Fire Network
October 9, 2021
In an eighth-grade class at Winterville Charter Academy during a lesson regarding the importance of the US Constitution, parents claim the teacher allegedly asked Black students to stand up, telling them that if it wasn’t for the Constitution, they would be her “field slaves.” The school said it acted immediately and is working to address […]