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CPS set to rename three elementary schools currently named after controversial figures
CBS News· 54 minutes agoChristopher Columbus Elementary would become Ruth Bader Ginsberg Elementary after the second female...
CPS to rename 3 schools, including one named after Christopher Columbus
Chicago Sun-Times· 22 hours agoThree Chicago public schools are being renamed in the latest changes aimed at getting rid of racist or otherwise problematic namesakes. In a school system where 82% of students are Black or ...
Chicago Public Schools considers renaming three elementary schools
Chicago Tribune· 23 hours agoThe three elementary schools are named after an enslaver, a Supreme Court Justice who upheld racial...
Japanese band pulls music video with ape-like natives
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA Japanese rock band has pulled the music video for its new song "Columbus" after drawing flak for scenes that depicted Christopher Columbus with ape-like ...
10 Best Beach Towns in Costa Rica, According to Locals
Travel+Leisure via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBesides surfing, Isla Uvita has pretty beaches, colorful wildlife, and the historical claim to fame...
GOP Chair Don Tracy calls it quits
Politico· 12 hours agoQuig. — Chicago Public Schools plans to adopt new names for three elementary schools, including one named after Christopher Columbus, by the Tribune’s...
This Centre County township near State College is a foodie paradise and history lover’s dream
State College Centre Daily Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBut thank the Boal family for this one again. Around the turn of the 20th century, a...
Every senior at this Paterson charter school was accepted to college
Gannett via AOL· 2 days ago“I didn’t grow up in a faraway place — I grew up in Paterson in the Christopher Columbus Project,”...
Boy, 14, critically wounded while walking in Columbus Park on West Side, Chicago police say
ABC 7 Chicago· 2 days agoA 14-year-old boy was critically wounded in a shooting on the West Side Tuesday night, Chicago...
The Rundown: What to do with all those dead cicadas
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 4 hours ago1. The 17-year cicadas will die out soon. Experts predict periodical cicadas will die out by the end of the month — leaving millions of dead insects across suburban Chicago and northern Illinois ...
