“This topic of race needs the effort of all to overcome, heal, and create a path forward that embraces us all,” says the newly elected Sellersville Borough Councilperson.
“Repeatedly, I have heard white residents claim that there is no racism in our area. To me, this is willful blindness,” says the New Hope-Solebury School District board member.
Pennridge’s new social studies curriculum will force teachers to indoctrinate students with a whitewashed, nationalistic revisionist history.
“To be anti-racist means we need to put energy and effort into changing a broken world,” says the priest from St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in New Hope.
The coach who compared Black kids in Philadelphia to “apes in fever” is no longer employed at the school, but his basketball training business still uses the school’s facilities.
Bucks County Anti-Racism Coalition co-leader Kevin E. Leven writes about why he is grateful for how the holiday is observed and celebrated locally.
Kevin Leven caught up with Lauren Bradley, Laura Foster, and Adrienne King of the PairUP Society to talk about why they organized a protest against Pennridge’s school board.
This new Q&A by Kevin E. Leven will feature individuals from Bucks County who wish to voice their opinions and perspectives regarding race, racism, anti-racism, and racial equity.
As we work to combat racism throughout Bucks County, we would be wise to remember to first look for and combat it in ourselves.
It started well before the pandemic and continues today. A key reason is experiences of racism within the larger school district that affect Black teachers across the system, but manifest differently depending on their schools’ locations.
The U.S. Department of Energy is dangling $750 million for the buildout of a hydrogen hub around Philadelphia. But the looming Trump presidency and strong economic headwinds endanger its prospects.
Lake Angela was moved by her own experiences with schizophrenia and the stories of the treatment patients in her dance therapy groups faced at the psychiatric institution.
The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.
The Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless provides the county’s unhoused individuals with more than 1,000 bed nights each year.