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Forever Stamp for Harper Lee | Guest Commentary
Santa Maria Times· 8 hours agoPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee, who died in 2016, received many honors during her long life. Lee’s 1960 book, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” set in...
LZ Granderson: Whose lives matter to Texas' governor?
The Bryan-College Station Eagle· 7 days agoThis is a tale of two pardons in Texas. The first was requested for George Floyd, the Black man...
I’m Worried About Overfishing. Should I Give Up Fish?
New York Times· 4 hours agoThere are good and bad ways of doing aquaculture, of course; recently there has been a growth in...
Granderson: Whose lives matter to the Republican governor of Texas?
San Jose Mercury News· 6 days agoThis is a tale of two pardons in Texas. The first was requested for George Floyd, the Black man...
A concentrated dose of history: The class of 2024 looks back : Consider This from NPR
NPR· 7 days agoIt was a concentrated dose of history for these students. Student movements and protests, starting...
The Texas School District That Provided the Blueprint for an Attack on Public Education
The New Yorker· 4 days agoRace and Identity, and the New War for America’s Classrooms,” Southlake’s long-awaited diversity plan happened to emerge in July, 2020, shortly after the murder of George ...
Distrust of police persists. This Georgia city may show a solution.
The Christian Science Monitor· 1 hour agoAfter a LaGrange resident’s car was repossessed, the man’s entire family – his son, his son’s...
Meet our new K-12 education reporter
Texas Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJaden also wrote movingly about the concerns of Black Texans two years after the murder of George Floyd. Jaden grew up in Chicago until fourth grade, when ...
Activists call to rename the Francis Scott Key Bridge because he owned enslaved people
NPR· 1 day agoThe names were changed in 2020 amidst reaction to protests after the George Floyd murder by police...
Why progressive DAs are clinging to survival
Politico· 6 days ago“As a public university, UCLA is subject to a dual legal mandate: we have a legal obligation under the First Amendment to protect free speech on campus,...