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An HC Black Music and Arts Association class on pan-African culture at the Arcata Marsh. Photo by Valetta Molofsky
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Sarah
Vevoda’s 7-year-old daughter Jaz used to say she had “up hair,”
her natural Black curls growing upward instead of hanging down like
nearly everyone else’s around her, including her family. Sarah, who
is white, says Jaz has commented on not seeing other people who look
like her. “It’s very hard for her to be in a sea of white people
everywhere she goes,” says Vevoda, noting Jaz is darker skinned ....

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'A Curriculum that Empowers'

Moorehead-Two Feathers Native American Family Services Executive Director Virgil Moorehead presents during the roundtable.
Speaking at a virtual roundtable called to discuss the systemic failures of local school districts to help Native students succeed, as detailed in a recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Humboldt State University Native American Studies Chair Cutcha Risling Baldy said it largely comes down to curriculums that disempower Native youth.
Baldy, who is of Karuk, Hupa and Yurok decent and a
Journal contributor, said the California Mission Project and Gold Rush lessons erase the history of California s attempted genocide on Native people, noting that the state legalized the enslavement of Native people and even offered bounties for killing them. ....

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