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Houghton Daily Mining Gazette HOUGHTON Four recent alumni of Houghton-Portage Township Schools have launched an initiative to get the district to add more education on racial discrimination and social justice. Three of the graduates Boris Busov, Adeline Grier-Welch and Cassandra Van Dam spoke to the Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Houghton in a virtual forum Sunday. The three 2012 graduates, along with 2016 graduate Finn Storer, began talking after the murder of George Floyd last year, Grier-Welch said. They wondered if their alma mater had done anything since they graduated to discuss racism. The students sent an email to the superintendent and school board. Both were responsive, but said with the district dealing with the more immediate challenges of COVID, it hadn’t been looked at district-wide, Grier-Welch said. ....
gneese@mininggazette.com Photo courtesy of Finn Storer Finn Storer, a 2016 graduate of Houghton High School, is one of a group of four alumni looking to help the school address racism and social justice. HOUGHTON Four recent alumni of Houghton-Portage Township Schools have launched an initiative to get the district to add more education on racial discrimination and social justice. Three of the graduates Boris Busov, Adeline Grier-Welch and Cassandra Van Dam spoke to the Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Houghton in a virtual forum Sunday. The three 2012 graduates, along with 2016 graduate Finn Storer, began talking after the murder of George Floyd last year, Grier-Welch said. They wondered if their alma mater had done anything since they graduated to discuss racism. ....