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A decade after Decatur fracas, racial gap in school discipline widens
Springfield :: MO :: USA | 1 day ago
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In 2003-04, the state stopped collecting figures on suspensions lasting 11 or more days. In the decade since mass protests over the punishment of six black students in Decatur, the state's racial gap in discipline has split wide open. It's such a gaping...
Tags: Latino Chicago Public Schools, Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, Illinois Education Association, minority students, racial gap, black students, Esther Golar, white suspensions, Jeffrey Jordan, Springfield, School punishment, Chicago Public Schools, Race and intelligence controversy, Civil rights movement, Employment, Punishments, Suspension, Education, Social Issues
The Police Are Rioting: A Report from the G-20 Streets, Pittsburgh 2009
by David Rovics, professional musician & G-20 protester. There is a popular assumption that, although other countries such as Iran or China don't have freedom of speech and of assembly, we do. And that it's what makes us so great. Anybody...
Tags: Cindy Sheehan, David Rovics, G-20, protest, Bill of Rights, Joshua White, Sarah Wellington, Civil Rights movement, Shays' Rebellion, Pittsburgh, Kevin Rudd, police, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, ACLU, BBC, NPR, CNN, martial law, Secret Service, FBI, LRAD, Holiday Inn, rubber bullets, tear gas
Emmett Till's Original Coffin to be on Display at Smithsonian
In 1955 in Money, Mississippi, fourteen year old Emmett Till was senslessley murdered in an act of racial voilence that lead to the galvanization of the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett's mother, Mamie Till, requested that her son have na open coffin so...
Tags: racism, african americans, mississippi, civil rights movement, chicago, smithsonian, washington d.c., Emmett Till
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