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The mobilisations by Dalit Ambedkarite diaspora in the West have received support from other socially marginalised communities and minority groups.

About 15 Evanston/Skokie School District 65 parents, teachers and students marched two and a half miles through hail and rain Saturday to oppose recent pushback to anti-racist District 65 curricula ahead of Tuesday’s school board election. School board candidates and their supporters from the District 65 Caregivers of Color & Our Village group assembled to...

Anya Tanyavutti stepped down as a member of the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education at its Monday meeting.  The board also swore in Tracy Olasimbo, Family Engagement Coordinator at Evanston Public Library. Olasimbo will replace Marquise Weatherspoon, a former board vice president who resigned in August. Tanyavutti served on the Board of Education...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced upcoming dates for Cook County’s fourth annual Racial Equity Week.

As schools across the country celebrate graduation, one of Quinnipiac University’s class of 2022 student-athletes is being celebrated for making an impact in...

The curriculum in the Evanston–Skokie School District is the perfect illustration of college-level Queer Theory translated into early-elementary pedagogy.

Republicans like Ron DeSantis are picking up support from parents across the political spectrum.

An Illinois public school district, located just north of Chicago, has embraced a progressive LGBTQ+ gender curriculum that it teaches to young children from pre-kindergarten through the third grade. 

US is in rapid state of moral disintegration -- and people around the world see it clearly

Evanston–Skokie’s school district adopts a curriculum that teaches pre-K through third-grade students to “break the binary” of gender.