“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.
Even though President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that made Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021, too many Americans are still unfamiliar with the day or its significance.
The Mercer Museum has partnered with the PairUP Society, Bucks County Anti-Racism Coalition, NAACP Bucks, and the African American History Museum to bring the first annual Juneteenth celebration to Upper Bucks.
Celebrations of Juneteenth which began in the South soon spread among other African American communities with parades, picnics and speeches.
In a new Bucks County Beacon column, Race Matters, Kevin E. Leven examines the meaning of being racist.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
