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Content warning: This story contains mentions of anti-Indigenous violence.  Nimkii Curley was excited to walk at Evanston Township High School District 202’s graduation ceremony Sunday. While he stood in line to receive his diploma, an ETHS event coordinator and a security guard pulled him out of line. Each directed him to remove his graduation cap....

For much of the past year, Asian American and African American Studies Prof. Nitasha Tamar Sharma said she felt like she failed her son. While her daughter has managed to independently finish fourth and most of fifth grade on Zoom, Sharma’s kindergartener son has struggled with isolation and remote learning. As a professor, director of African American Graduate Studies and caretaker for her mother during the pandemic, Sharma said trying to balance her many responsibilities with homeschooling has felt “impossible.” “Imagine trying to get a kindergartner and a first grader to learn how ...