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Has an updated take on red lining, this time targeting a new racial demographic. a new bill filed in a state senate aims to ban citizens, governments, and entities of china from purchasing any property in texas, including residential property. unsurprisingly, texas governor greg abbott has already unequivocal-y said that he will sign the bill. as republicans point to the geopolitical tension between the united states and china after the u.s. military shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon over south carolina earlier this month, chinese citizens are not the only ones being singled out. the b...

Dispute at the college board. this is what they wrote. in light of the conservative criticism, the college board seems to opt out. slavery, reconstruction of the civil rights movement, red lining, as well as stories of individual achievement and heroism. but the study of contemporary issues including black lives matter, incarceration, queer life, and the debate over reparations is downgraded. the subjects are no longer part of the exam and are simply offered as a list of options for a required research project and even that list could be refined by local states and districts. what's your respo...

Politicians who provided input into what should or should not be in the course. the framework was complete before that. and our framework is actually available. if people want to gee to our website and download it. when i look at page 218 of the framework, i see topics listed in a research project, a research project which is more than just a survey. it allows you to go very deeply into a topic. those topics include affirmative action, black lives matter, reparations debates in the u.s., the legacy of red lining, crime, criminal justice, and incarceration. movements led by black women includin...

>> 404 years later, the united states is still a land of subjects and citizens. it's more subtle, of course, but the basic structure is still the same. white americans unless you were poor or disabled, enjoy the full benefits of citizenship. you can generally vote without impediment as long as you're not a woke student who prefers the convenience of a drop box. your fam alhe's nev faced violent reprisals for trying to go to school or work. you can live wherever you want without fear of red lining artificially reduced property values or your neighbors calling 911 because they don't believe you ...

Made money off of the slave trade. so, those are things that since 2006, the city and the county is trying to look at and understand what financial institutions, what insurance companies, who are the folks that have been able to benefit and prosper off of this, and perhaps that's something that the committee could look at. >> john, it sounds like this is very much a work in progress and a conversation in the making and it relies on a number of stakeholder, does that change your perception of where things stand right now? >> no, i'm afraid not. the report is terribly muddled, it largely focuses...