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The Cherokee County School Board voted to ban critical race theory, which has become an issue for some parents and many conservative politicians, from its curriculum last week. But some are still unsure what it is. This week on Georgia Today, we examine why critical race theory has become such a hot political topic with GPB News' Donna Lowry.

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Cocoa Barometer goes multi-lingual and calls for renewed help for poor farmers By Anthony Myers The influential Cocoa Barometer, a biennial review of sustainability in the cocoa sector, is now available in French, Spanish and Dutch - in addition to the original language English version – to represent the major languages where cocoa is grown, traded or processed. Released in 2020, the latest Cocoa Barometer​ also include...

By Dan ODonnell Mar 15, 2021 Located just 70 miles from Americas southern border, McAllen, Texas has been an epicenter of the nations growing problem with a massive flood of unaccompanied migrant children overwhelming federal facilities. "Its an absolute crisis," said a source who was in McAllen last week and revealed how a group of these children were flown from McAllen International Airport to Dallas and then to various cities across the country, including a few who ended up in Milwaukee. ...

By Dan ODonnell Mar 15, 2021 Located just 70 miles from Americas southern border, McAllen, Texas has been an epicenter of the nations growing problem with a massive flood of unaccompanied migrant children overwhelming federal facilities. "Its an absolute crisis," said a source who was in McAllen last week and revealed how a group of these children were flown from McAllen International Airport to Dallas and then to various cities across the country, including a few who ended up in Milwaukee. ...

Nonprofit organizations push back on ICE detention facility increases 1 month 4 days 24 minutes ago Wednesday, March 10 2021 Mar 10, 2021 March 10, 2021 10:29 PM March 10, 2021 in News - Local Gov. Greg Abbotts calls to increase ICE detention facilities are facing pushback. Some Valley residents started a letter-writing campaign to U.S. Rep Filemon Vela (D-Brownsville).  They want all ICE detainees to be released due to COVID-19 risks.  In 2020, 33-year-old Hilder Lainez-Alvarez said he was c...

Ivory Coast Arrests 4 for Trafficking Children to Cocoa Growers Feb 07 2021, 4:03 PM February 07 2021, 3:31 PM February 07 2021, 4:03 PM (Bloomberg) -- Ivory Coast police arrested four alleged child traffickers and rescued 19 children suspected of being transported to work on cocoa plantations in the West African nation. (Bloomberg) -- Ivory Coast police arrested four alleged child traffickers and rescued 19 children suspected of being transported to work on cocoa plantations in the West Africa...

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Experts weigh in on private detention centers following Bidens executive order 2 months 1 week 4 days ago Monday, February 01 2021 Feb 1, 2021 February 01, 2021 3:19 PM February 01, 2021 in News - Local Share: Last year, when 33-year-old Hilder Lainez-Alvarez was arrested after crossing the border illegally, he was taken to the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, then the ICE Detention Center in Port Isabel. The Nicaraguan native said that both detention centers were overcrowded, and tha...

Isis Almeida and Leanne de Bassompierre, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- Nobody is suffering more from a global chocolate standoff than the Ivory Coast cocoa farmer. Less than two years after the top cocoa producer teamed up with neighboring Ghana to force companies from Hershey Co. to Nestle SA to pay more for their beans, the attempt to exert control over prices is backfiring. Buyers are refusing to pay up, beans are piling in warehouses upcountry and farmers are so desperate that some even sle...