The Central Bucks School Board is dominated by six members whose recent policies have restricted preventative health, denied gender rights, banned books and suppressed freedom of speech. If you look at what’s happening across the country, I fear their next agenda is to remove Black History from our district’s curriculum.
As I write this, there are members within the Harrisburg legislature determined to pull the threads of Black History from Democracy’s Colorful Quilt of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Celebrations of Juneteenth which began in the South soon spread among other African American communities with parades, picnics and speeches.
Advocates for the unhoused in Bucks County weigh in on what this decision could mean for our most vulnerable community members.
The new federal standards demonstrate that the Biden administration takes clean water seriously and will continue to take necessary action to stop chemical manufacturers from endangering our most vulnerable residents.
“Keeping people in poverty is not how we move the Commonwealth forward – our current wage is immoral and unjustifiable,” said the Philadelphia County lawmaker.
Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are fear-mongering over noncitizen voting, which is among the oldest tactics in American electoral politics.
Student climate justice activist Eliana Atienza shares how the campus organization is working to create change at the University of Pennsylvania.
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