Archives for February 25, 2016

Carey Wedler
February 25, 2016

(ANTIMEDIA) St. Louis, MO — An African-American third-grader in St. Louis, Missouri will be unable to continue attending his charter school due to a decades-old federal court decision intended to fight segregation. Edmund Lee, a high-performing student at Gateway Science Academy, will be forced to leave the school he has attended since kindergarten because he and his mother, La’Shieka White, are moving away from the district where the school is located. Though policy guidelines, pursuant to the court decision, allow students to stay if they move, a provision specifically states he cannot — because he is black.

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Clarice Palmer
February 25, 2016

(ANTIMEDIA) In the United States, the Fourth Estate, also known as the Fourth Power or the fourth branch of government, has always been a popular label for the media’s role in a free society. But in the state of Virginia, legislators want to remove that power from the press by shielding police officers from public scrutiny.

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Jake Anderson
February 25, 2016

(ANTIMEDIA) It’s rare to get good news regarding pollution and the environment. Most stories are gloom-and-doom, and in most cases, this angle is more than appropriate. Runaway climate change and environmental degradation is, to many, the most profound problem facing the human race, and for the past few decades we’ve utterly failed to meet the challenge.

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