“We aim to create a more inclusive and equitable Bucks County by dismantling systemic barriers and ensuring everyone has access to opportunities to thrive,” says new Bucks NAACP President King.
“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.
Swegal hopes his movie will be a conversation starter that challenges viewers to feel empathy.
It’s unclear if Bucks County Sheriff’s deputies were involved.
“For a long time, people saw white supremacist politics and white nationalism as on the fringe of American politics. It has now become the mainstream of the American right, whose central foundation is within the Republican Party,” said Marc Morial, president of the Urban League.
“The DOJ seems dead set on acquiring personal information on voters, including driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers and dates of birth — records that are highly protected under federal law and under state law and which state election officials are sworn to protect,” said David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research.
“In Pennsylvania, our current law puts regulations around abortion care in the criminal code, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Health care is not a crime,” said State Senator Amanda Cappelletti.
