Happening tonight, growing tensions some areas School Districts acts of racism sparking serious schools concerns. Thanks for joining us tonight at Washington Township hoy School Students are trying to put their worries aside. And come together for homecomi homecoming. Thats where we find fox 29s Joanne Pileggi with more on the story. Joanne. Reporter they did put their concerns aside, and homecoming night here at Washington Township high in south jersey is one for the history books. There were no problems. There were no incidents much thats day after a student led protest after someone posted racist comments on social media. Reporter a beautiful night for football and if there was any lingering tension over racist message on social media, you couldnt tell here at the homecoming game at Washington Township high. Like we add dreft it. People saw that we were upset about it. So we got our point across. Peopl in the school really took offense to it and as you can see thats why we had to pr
There were no incidents much thats day after a student led protest after someone posted racist comments on social media. Reporter a beautiful night for football and if there was any lingering tension over racist message on social media, you couldnt tell here at the homecoming game at Washington Township high. Like we add dreft it. People saw that we were upset about it. So we got our point across. Peopl in the school really took offense to it and as you can see thats why we had to protest because just people need to like calm down with like the bad languages we use now days. Reporter School Officials in south jersey called an emergency meeting last night after a fight broke out at the sprawling high school a fight precipitated by a social media message using the n word. Students involved were disciplined and administrators encouraged student leaders to discuss the incident at a meeting. Im glad theres awareness being brought it to. I think thats where it starts with awareness. Reporter
Forecasters are warning, it could be the most powerful storm, to make land fall in the u. S. , since 2005, and millions are in its path. We dont know what will happen, if we will come back to a home what damage we are coming home to, it is kind of sad, scary. Reporter many coastal residents are boarding up their homes and heading inland , hotels are making people check out. School buses are shuttling hundreds out of corpus christie. Thursday, babies from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit were flown north to safety but officials are concerned because not as many people are evacuating, compared with previous storms. The National Hurricane center is calling harvey life threatening and says it could leave parts of the upper texas coast uninhabitable for weeks. Harvey could deliver wind of over 110 miles an hour and 15 foot storm surge when it arrives. The issue will be when it makes land fall it is just going to sit, meander over texas coastline here. Reporter rainfall is predict to be close
Of white racism against africanamericans in this country. Up now Carol Anderson, author of white rage. I think will go ahead and get started. Hello and welcome to Left Bank Books for our event with Carol Anderson. This is of course not Left Bank Books. Imd event host for Left Bank Books and i would like to thank our cosponsor for the evening, the Ferguson Public Library library. Their work and their activism is incredible and inspiring. They are a wonderful partner to have for such an event like this Left Bank Books hosts over 300 author events each year end it is with your help that we continue bringing in your favorite authors. When you support us, you are reinvesting in your community because your tax dollars are going into your schools, parks, streets, libraries and Community Projects at an incredibly higher rate. We give back by partnering with Many Charities and organizations and also we are doing our fundraising for Readers Program and we have brochures at the back. The river ci
I think will go ahead and get started. Hello and welcome to Left Bank Books for our event with Carol Anderson. This is of course not Left Bank Books. Imd event host for Left Bank Books and i would like to thank our cosponsor for the evening, the Ferguson Public Library library. Their work and their activism is incredible and inspiring. They are a wonderful partner to have for such an event like this Left Bank Books hosts over 300 author events each year end it is with your help that we continue bringing in your favorite authors. When you support us, you are reinvesting in your community because your tax dollars are going into your schools, parks, streets, libraries and Community Projects at an incredibly higher rate. We give back by partnering with Many Charities and organizations and also we are doing our fundraising for Readers Program and we have brochures at the back. The river city readers serves st. Louis Public School children by building their own home library and encouraging l