(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Boston-area fifth grade teacher who held a mock slave auction and used a racial epithet during instruction has been placed on ...

MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey (WABC) -- A school assignment about slavery at one New Jersey school has parents looking for answers from officials. "I was heartbroken, I had a knot in my stomach," said Tracey ...

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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- Posters for slave auctions created by fifth-graders have been removed from the wall of a New Jersey elementary school hallway after some parents questioned the assignment. The ...

(The Hill) – A Massachusetts elementary school teacher was placed on paid administrative leave after two incidents the district described as “disproportionately traumatic for students of color,” ...