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Y at Virginia Tech to host a summer tea fundraiser

The YMCA at Virginia Tech will host its first annual Summer Tea on Saturday, June 17, in honor of the birthday of Lucy Lee Lancaster, whose family lived in the

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Aledo moms speak out on racial bullying

5 hrs ago Two Aledo ISD mothers who said their sons were the target of racial bullying addressed the school board publicly Thursday night, expressing concern over their children s well-being and protection. “We — our families and our sons who are being put through this because of the stance that you all failed to take — feel that you all failed them,” one mother said during the special called meeting. The mothers said they were notified about the incident on March 25 when screenshots of a Snapchat group surfaced. “It was a post from a Snapchat entitled ‘(N-word) Auction,’” one of the mothers said. “As I looked down on the screen at the various name changes of the group, it included ’Slave Trade,’ it included ’(N-word) Farm’ and then I saw my son’s name.”

Texas students created Snapchat group to buy black classmates for $1

Texas High Schoolers Set Prices for Classmates in 'Slave Trade' Chat

Texas High Schoolers Set Prices for Classmates in ‘Slave Trade’ Chat A school district in Aledo, Texas, said it had meted out “disciplinary consequences” after ninth graders assigned dollar values to students of color in private Snapchat messages. Some parents were critical of the school’s principal for not explicitly calling the contents of the group message racist.Credit.NBC April 14, 2021 A North Texas school district said this week that it had disciplined a group of students at a predominantly white school who had assigned prices to students of color in a Snapchat group message called “Slave Trade.” Messages sent by students at the high school in Aledo, Texas, about 20 miles west of Fort Worth, said one student was worth “100 bucks” while another was worth a dollar — a price that “would be better if his hair wasn’t so bad,” according to a photo of the group chat seen by The New York Times.