An 8-year-old Black elementary student in Oklahoma was punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to school, his mother says.
Ben Stapleton wore the BLM shirt last week at Charles Evans Elementary School in Ardmore and was instructed by the principal to turn the shirt inside out during P.E. class, according to local outlet KXII. But when Stapleton wore the shirt again, the child was allegedly taken out of class and forced to sit in the principal’s office for hours in what his mother described as modern-day segregation.
“They pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shirt inside out and then I started playing,” the child said.
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It s a whole lot of stress I applied the second day the program opened, said Durham renter Kymberlee Devine.
HOPE (Housing Opportunity to Prevent Evictions) is a statewide rental assistance program funded by the federal government and opened to applicants in October. The program closed to new applicants just weeks after launching after receiving more than 42,000 applications.
Devine got her application in time and was approved for both utility and rental assistance right away.
While the utility assistance was paid, the promised rental assistance was not.
Her rent continued to be unpaid, her landlord growing impatient for the promised funds.
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