• about-education
• racism
• slavery

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Written by Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington and Richard Handler, University of Virginia

Published: 26 September 2023

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Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

• about-gun-violence
• COVID-19
• about-vice-president-Kamala-Harris
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Written by by BOTWC Staff

Published: 26 September 2023

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The new office will focus on continuing the administration’s efforts to prevent high-profile mass shootings and local homicides that disproportionately impact Black and Latino communities.

• vaccine
• COVID-19
• pandemic
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Written by by BOTWC Staff

Published: 26 September 2023

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When reports of a new coronavirus strain that emerged in China hit airwaves in early 2020, no one could’ve guessed how it would dramatically change the world as we know it.

• about-Civil-War
• about-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.
• HPfeature
• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Written by PETER SMITH Associated Press

Published: 25 September 2023

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The new windows depict a march for justice by African Americans, descendants of the very people who would have remained in slavery after the Civil War if the side for which the officers fought had prevailed.

• about-election
• about-Democracy
• President-Joe-Biden
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Written by By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

Published: 25 September 2023

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris paid tribute to the dedication of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) in their pursuit of progress and equality.

• about-racial-discrimination
• about-hiring-descrimination

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Written by Martin Abel, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College

Published: 25 September 2023

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Discrimination happens especially when employers make decisions in a hurry − new research

• artificial intelligence
• HPfeature
• facial-recognition-technology

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Written by SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press

Published: 25 September 2023

 

A Georgia man who says authorities wrongly arrested him based on facial recognition technology has filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana detective who sought his arrest warrant.

• about-justice
• about-Supreme-Court
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Written by MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

Published: 24 September 2023

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — How important can the meaning of a single word be? In an upcoming Supreme Court case, the interpretation could affect the length of thousands of prison sentences handed down each year. The legal fight that the justices will hear on Oct. 2, the first day of their new term, depends on the meaning of “and” in a provision of a 2018 criminal justice overhaul

• about-Medicaid
• pandemic
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Written by DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press

Published: 22 September 2023

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All states are undertaking a massive examination of Medicaid rolls — the first such review since the federal government lifted a pandemic-era moratorium on removing people from the program.

• Governor-Gavin-Newsom
• self-driving-vehicles

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Written by SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America

Published: 22 September 2023

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The legislation would ban self-driving trucks weighing more than 10,000 pounds — which would include vehicles from UPS delivery trucks to massive semi-trucks — from operating on public roads unless a human driver is on board.