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Why are Sex Worker and Public Health Advocates Annoyed with Google?

Submitted by robert_childs on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 11:22pm

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Why are Sex Worker and Public Health Advocates Annoyed with Google?
Originally composed by SWAAY (Sex Work Activists, Allies and You)
Edited by Robert Childs, Executive Director of the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition

Race and poverty

Submitted by James on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 2:23pm

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Of course, it can't have anything to do with 200 years of slavery.

The story at Indy Week

NC Dept of Public Instruction: History did not Begin in 1877

Submitted by Nina Kilbride on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 9:19am

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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is in the process of overhauling the curriculum for North Carolina Public Schools. The DPI has asked for feedback on the proposed curriculum through February 15, 2010. I reviewed the proposed curriculum. There is a glaring problem with the proposed history instruction in North Carolina high schools. The proposed curriculum eliminates the teaching of United States history prior to 1877 in North Carolina public schools. A few pre-1877 concepts are covered in other parts of the curriculum, but the proposed curriculum would not teach children:

Who came to the Americas and why
The states were once colonies of England
We fought a war to free ourselves from an imperial crown
We had a lot of discussion of how people in a democracy best rule themselves, culminating in the Constitution.
Western Expansion
Death and Displacement of Native Americans
Wars of U.S. Territorial Expansion
Slavery
Civil War
Reconstruction