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The Buncombe County Board of Education halted public comment at its June 3 meeting after a group of protesters looking to object to the district’s mask mandate swarmed the building demanding entry.
About 40 people gathered outside of the building at 175 Bingham Road to protest the mask requirement and voice approval of recently passed House Bill 324, which bans North Carolina public schools from teaching Critical Race Theory, an academic concept that asserts racism is engrained in the legal system.
After two people gave their allotted 3-minute public comment, Board Chair Ann Franklin called a recess due to yelling outside the building. Fifteen minutes later, the meeting was called back into order, and BCS attorney John Henning advised the board to stop public comment.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (Prairie News Service) – This month, agencies that help low-income residents escape poverty are being honored for their work.
That includes efforts in North Dakota, where leaders say the pandemic has provided opportunities to be more effective in the future. May is Community Action Awareness Month, and the statewide agency for North Dakota has been honored with a proclamation from the governor’s office.
Andrea Olson with the Community Action Partnership of North Dakota says despite a year in which her staff had to shift to working remotely, they still were able to serve clients for issues such as affordable housing.
Reflexions: Reading in the present tense
, established and younger writers and other creative artists will reflect on a text that moved them, intellectually engaged them, frightened them or made them laugh. Our reviewer today is Yewande Omotoso who considers four books
about childbirth and parenting
The run-up to conception was long. As a placeholder, I’ll use the word “difficult” to bracket that period of longing, compromise and loss – a lengthy reckoning with oneself and one’s complex desires. I became pregnant towards the end of 2019 as Covid was beginning to spread. With isolation, I anticipated lots of reading but what I hadn’t expected was how almost all my reading would be geared towards birth and parenting. My energies were turned towards the safe passage of the new lives and now that they were finally coming, what the hell was I going to do with them when they arrived? When I look back over my reading list through that period I see a mirror, showing me