1+ week, 2+ day ago  (395+ words) A school district in a deeply red state decided to ban an iconic Pulitzer-winning novel about slavery because of a single passage. Knox County Schools in Tennessee banned the 1976 novel "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," written by Alex…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (416+ words) On Thursday, the American Federation of Teachers adopted a measure encouraging its 1. 8 million members to purchase back-to-school merchandise from neighborhood retailers instead of Target. The union's grievance focuses on how Target handled'or failed to handle'aggressive federal immigration operations in Minneapolis…...