RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) A North Carolina women’s college basketball team forfeited a chance at its conference championship to stand in solidarity with a teammate who was disciplined for her part in an incident during which she said she was the target of racial slurs.
William Peace University junior Lauryn Cross was disciplined for the incident following Peace’s win last Wednesday against Meredith College in the division semifinals of the USA South Conference tournament, The North State Journal reported. Because of Cross’ suspension, the team decided to forfeit the East Division championship game the next night, giving North Carolina Wesleyan the title.
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EAST CHICAGO â The U.S. EPA has begun its first cleanup evaluation of the USS Lead Superfund site, a review typically done every five years so long as contaminants remain on site.
The start of EPAâs five-year review of the East Chicago marks a significant milestone in the communityâs long fight for more protections for those living within the 322-acre site bounded by East Chicago Avenue on the north, East 151st Street on the south, the Indiana Harbor Canal on the west and Parrish Avenue on the east.
EPA officials said they are in the early stage of its review, in which they will contact community members and determine which documents and data to analyze. Site inspections are also part of the agency s review.
Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Art: A UNT Speaker Series Provides a Vision for the Future
Just imagine what an equitable art world would look like.
By Kathy Wise
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Arts & Entertainment
February 4, 2021
11:37 am
A new virtual speaker series from the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design seeks to imagine a future where the art world is equitable. In such a world, the students and the teachers, the art collectors and museum directors, and the artists and the art would all better reflect the larger world.
The title of the event, 2044 Series: Anti-Racist Praxis as Futurist Art and Design Pedagogy, is a bit of a mouthful. But it’s a thoughtful nod to Bennett Caper’s law review article, “Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044.” The year 2044 is significant, Caper notes, because that’s the year the United States is projected to become a “majority-minority” country. For the state of Texas and the city of Dallas, both of which already hav