HISD principals can now stop online classes for struggling students. But will they?
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Students attend a ninth-grade world geography class Wednesday at Houston ISD’s Austin High School. Under a new HISD policy, some struggling online-only students who refuse to return to campuses for class could be forced to un-enroll from the district.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Students make their way to classes Wednesday at Houston ISD’s Austin High School. Under a new HISD policy, some struggling online-only students who refuse to return to campuses for class could be forced to un-enroll from the district.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Local leaders compare police response to Capitol riots and BLM protests
Local police, leaders respond to protest comparisons By DeAndria Turner | January 7, 2021 at 7:37 PM CST - Updated January 7 at 7:43 PM
COLBERT COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF) - Over the summer demonstrations for Black Lives Matter spread across the nation including right here in the Tennessee Valley.
In Huntsville, protestors were met with riot gear, pepper spray and tear gas from officers.
In Florence they were met with counter-protestors.
When Camille Bennett, Executive Director of Project Say Something, saw videos of pro-Trump rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday she said, to her, the disparity was clear between this riot and Black Lives Matter protests that happened over the summer.
Hateful tweet about Stacey Abrams costs university football coach his job
Neil Vigdor, New York Times
Jan. 8, 2021
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An assistant football coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga lost his job after smearing Stacey Abrams and the state of Georgia in a Twitter post that perpetuated unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, university officials said Thursday.
The coach, Chris Malone, was in his second season as an assistant and offensive line coach for the Mocs, according to a biography that was removed from the university’s athletics website.
Malone made the disparaging comments about Abrams, a former gubernatorial candidate and onetime Democratic House leader in Georgia, on Tuesday night after the runoff elections for the U.S. Senate in Georgia races won by Democrats that will give them control of the Senate.
Watch: Panel discusses vaccine hesitancy in communities of color
Experts to discuss roots of phenomenon, why it fuels health disparities
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Lindsay Kolysko, nurse educator in emergency room, right, administers one of the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Cynthia Tanksley, patient associate specialist in emergency room, at Albany Medical Center on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in Albany, N.Y. The hospital staff started vaccinating their health care workers on the first day the vaccine was administered in the United States. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union
ALBANY The problem of vaccine hesitancy among communities of color across the nation is a threat that has hobbled past responses to health crises as mundane yet deadly as the annual flu, and presents a far more grave risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has done disproportionate damage to Black and Latino Americans.