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Berkeley Unified School District is looking into providing cash reparations to African American students whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States, with officials saying the district “can and should lead such a change” nationally. The district is creating a task force to make recommendations to the school board by January on how to fund and implement a reparations program that is focused on cash payments, according to a district webpage explaining the effort. The task force, with 15-20 members, will include board members, district staff, teachers and community members. Kad Smith, a Berkeley High School alumnus and  former project director at Oakland social justice nonprofit CompassPoint, will be the task force facilitator. The district is recruiting community members and plans an online informational meeting Thursday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. for those interested. While the effort is still in its early stages, the district webpage says officials want to create a program … [Read more...] about This Bay Area school district could be first in U.S to offer cash reparations to some Black students

From its earliest days, when the pianist Jelly Roll Morton spoke of a “Spanish tinge,” jazz has been extraordinarily open to international influences. Now it’s official. Last fall Unesco — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — designated jazz a “universal music of freedom and creativity” and decreed that henceforth every April 30 is to be celebrated around the world as International Jazz Day. As part of the first year’s festivities — and also to show jazz’s global reach — some of the genre’s biggest names will be performing on Monday night at the United Nations headquarters, in the same space where world leaders gather each fall for the General Assembly. In addition to American players like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stevie Wonder, Wynton Marsalis and Esperanza Spalding, musicians from Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia will also be participating. On Sunday afternoon, after a custom-made stage had been installed directly under the United … [Read more...] about Where Nations Debate, Harmony of a Jazzy Kind

close Video Virginia mom speaks out against bullying after son was choked on a school bus Virginia mother Taylor Brock joins 'Fox & Friends' with her lawyer, Cheri Belkowitz, to discuss the bullying her son experienced and how the school responded to the incident. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Georgia police announced Monday that the FBI has joined the investigation into the horrific hazing of Trent Lehrkamp, 19, who remains hospitalized after a group of teens reportedly forced him to guzzle vodka, tied him to a chair and urinated on him. The shocking assault prompted hundreds of people to attend a vigil Monday night outside the Brunswick hospital, where Lehrkamp is recovering, to demand charges against his perpetrators, according to WSAV.com. Glynn County Police said in a press release that the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) are helping conduct interviews and analyze electronic evidence related to the disturbing … [Read more...] about Trent Lehrkamp hazing: FBI joins Georgia probe as depraved new details of abuse emerge

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 28 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Vail Ski Resort has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the three surviving children of a New Jersey father who suffocated to death after falling through a chairlift seat and becoming caught in his coat. Jason Varnish of Short Hills, New Jersey , was 46 years old when he died as a result of the "unnecessary and preventable tragedy" on Feb. 13, 2020, attorney Peter Burg said. "Jason Varnish was a truly remarkable human being whose death leaves a gaping hole in the hearts of his family and friends," Burg said in a statement announcing that the popular ski destination reached a confidential settlement before the case could go to trial. The statement from Burg’s firm said, "The chair that Mr. Varnish was preparing to board came into the load line with the seat in the up position against the backrest of … [Read more...] about Vail Ski Resort settles lawsuit after New Jersey father suffocated to death in chairlift accident

WASHINGTON — The old nuclear order, rooted in the Cold War’s unthinkable outcomes, was fraying before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now, it is giving way to a looming era of disorder unlike any since the beginning of the atomic age. Russia’s regular reminders over the past three months of its nuclear might, even if largely bluster, were the latest evidence of how the potential threat has resurfaced in more overt and dangerous ways. They were enough to draw a pointed warning to Moscow on Tuesday from President Biden in what amounted to a tacit acknowledgment that the world had entered a period of heightened nuclear risks. “We currently see no indication that Russia has intent to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, though Russia’s occasional rhetoric to rattle the nuclear saber is itself dangerous and extremely irresponsible,” Mr. Biden wrote in a guest opinion essay in The New York Times . “Let me be clear: Any use of nuclear weapons in this conflict on any scale would be completely … [Read more...] about Putin’s Threats Highlight the Dangers of a New, Riskier Nuclear Era

Zack Carlson is a huge fan of the 1981 horror film “The Evil Dead.” That’s why he won’t be seeing the new “Evil Dead” when it opens on Friday. “I wouldn’t watch it at gunpoint,” said Mr. Carlson, a writer for the horror movie Web site Bleeding Skull. As “High Noon” is considered a fundamental western, “Evil Dead” is a seminal horror film, and for many fans, one not to be messed with. A story of possession set in a cabin in the woods, “The Evil Dead” was part of a wave of low-budget independent horror films in the late ’70s and early ’80s that used crude effects and guerrilla filmmaking techniques to tell a scary tale saturated in outrageous gore. It was directed by Sam Raimi, who went on to direct the Tobey Maguire “Spider-Man” films and “Oz the Great and Powerful.” The original has two follow-ups: “Evil Dead 2” (1987), a dark horror-comedy that’s effectively a remake of the original, and “Army of Darkness” (1992), a horror-adventure sequel to “Evil Dead 2.” “It was … [Read more...] about New Ugliness in a Little Cabin of Horrors