4 ways to work toward an anti-racist allyship
Advancing Racial Equality & Social Justice
4 ways to work toward an anti-racist allyship
By Engy Abdelkader
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Over the course of the last four years, the Trump administration’s policies, practices and rhetoric not only laid bare the deleterious effects of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance, but it also revealed the manner in which ideologies of oppression anti-Black racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia and anti-Asian racism may also overlap, intersect and interlock.
For example, what was initially understood as a Muslim travel ban eventually evolved into an African travel ban. The 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh by a white supremacist who killed 11 congregants and injured six others showed how anti-Semitism and Islamophobia intersected in the mind of the alleged killer who posted xenophobic screeds about both Jews and Muslims. Notably, the attacker believed tha
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Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill requiring Wisconsin middle and high school social studies classes to teach the Holocaust and other genocides.
Evers signed the bipartisan bill on Wednesday.It passed the Legislature unanimously.
Wisconsin joins 17 other states that require Holocaust education, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. An 18th state, Arkansas, has a law taking effect next year.
Under Wisconsin s new law, public schools, charter schools and private schools in the voucher program must include instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides at least once between fifth and eighth grade and once in high school.
Holocaust education for Wisconsin students required for grades 5-12
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Holocaust education required for Wisconsin students, grades 5-12
Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill on Wednesday requiring Wisconsin middle and high school social studies classes to teach the Holocaust and other genocides.
MILWAUKEE - Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill on Wednesday requiring Wisconsin middle and high school social studies classes to teach the Holocaust and other genocides.
Wisconsin joins 17 other states that require Holocaust education, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. An 18th state, Arkansas, has a law taking effect next year. This bill will affect generations of kids in our state and bring increased awareness, and recognition in our schools to the tragedies of the Holocaust, the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism to this day, and hopefully cultivate a generation that is more compassionate, more empathetic and more inclusive, Evers said.
[Washington National Cathedral] Washington National Cathedral on April 28 announced that the cathedral has added a stone carving of Holocaust survivor and Nobel