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A school district removed Confederate names from buildings. Now, they might put them back
USA Today· 7 days agoA Virginia school board Thursday will reconsider – for the second time – a previous action to remove...
Reform of RI's police bill of rights is closer than ever with House approval. What to expect.
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 6 days ago...Approved on a 58-to-14 vote on Thursday after a heated two-hour debate, the long-sought compromise was born of the public anger and frustration sparked by a string of incidents of alleged police misconduct locally and nationally, including: The 2020 murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis...
A tale of two Lake Streets: One recovering, one frozen in 2020
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLast month Ruhel Islam watched a wrecking crew demolish the O'Reilly Auto Parts Store on Lake Street...
Where Lake Street rebuilding projects stand four years after the riots
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune· 7 days agoGround will be broken in July on a new $30 million Southside Community Health Services clinic. At...
How Six Sigma Racial Equity Institute Empowers Black Women
Black Enterprise· 3 days agoSigma Racial Equity Institute was founded by Joy E. Mason in spring 2021 as an offshoot of her...
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names
BBC via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA large crowd flocked to the school board's public meeting on Thursday to listen to a series of...
Virginia school district restores Confederate names at 2 schools
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSchool curriculums on Black history and slavery have been diluted and even removed in several...
What gets lost in the campus protests
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOne of the most interesting things about the protests that took place as part of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the police murder of <...
Doors Open Minneapolis gives free tours of more than 100 buildings
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 1 day agoDoors Open Minneapolis offers the keys to buildings — or spaces within buildings — that are often...
The bearing witness presidency
Politico· 2 days agoBiden, who came of age in the 1960s, said he was motivated to run for president in 2020 by the 2017 white supremacist march in Charlottesville. He took office months after the murder ...