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BOSTON — Days after hundreds of National Football League players who took a knee or linked arms during the national anthem helped inject a healthy dose of politics into sports, representatives from New England's five major league sports franchises gathered at Fenway Park to launch a new anti-racism initiative.
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WATERVILLE, MAINE — A New England private liberal arts college's website appears to shed light on what types of student bias complaints — or "microaggressions" — may trigger an administrative investigation. Colby College, an exclusive school comprised of about 1,800 undergraduates, features a section on the school website
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BOSTON — Student activists at Boston Latin School, the embattled prestigious exam school that's already seen two top administrators leave in response to allegations the institution is rife with racism, appear to be at odds with a new movement aimed at creating an atmosphere of unity at the school.
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BOSTON — The two Boston Latin School students whose viral videos alleging racial hostility at the prestigious exam school ultimately led to the resignation of two top-level administrators declined offers to spend the summer interning at district's Office of Equity. Richard Weir, communications director for Boston Public Schools, confirmed
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black parishioners last year in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday. "The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this
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PARIS (RNS) — On a sunny spring morning, an 18-year-old college student wrapped a scarf around her head to feel what it would be like to wear a veil. "I felt stressed," said Valentine Cannepyn, who comes from a Christian background and studies at Sciences Po, an elite Paris
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Having kids who are in middle school provides a painful reminder that many children go through a phase of being cruel to others. Working in higher education is a painful reminder that some don't outgrow it. Observing my own children's experience while watching surprisingly similar conflicts
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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Kristen Coke and Jameil Brown enrolled at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University not knowing much about the school's namesake aside from his oft-touted positive accomplishments, from the changes he made as the university's president
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