A federal lawsuit claiming an Illinois teacher gave Black students bags of cotton after a lesson about slavery drew outraged community members to their school board meeting Tuesday. The racial ...
UPDATE: This story has been updated with comments from the family’s attorney. When a 13-year-old came home from school and showed her mother the bag of cotton she had received from a teacher, her ...
A lawsuit accuses an Illinois school district of racially discriminating against two Black students and their mother. Screengrab from Candace Ward's Facebook post UPDATE: This story has been updated ...