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I picked the topic racial issues in schools through out the world, and the main focus of this project is going to concentrate primarily on how African Americans still face racism on every level of education. This topic is important because racism is still an ongoing problem especially in education. Many issues that involve racism is ignored by the public or the educational system, and I believe that this subject is still highly relevant in today's society. I chose this subject because as a someone who went through all the education levels, meaning elementary through high school and now to college, it's important that as individuals we are aware and don't take part in it.

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In the module People & Place it talks about how the Atlantic slave trade migrated many African Americans. These individuals were part of a diaspora, and have ended up all around the world. Due to migration, many people think that African Americans do not belong to a certain area.  This module also talks about how many individuals assume and make racial judgements to someone just based on their physical characteristics or appearance.

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Most black adults say race is central to their identity and feel connected to a broader black community

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About three-quarters of black adults in the U.S. say that being black is extremely or very important to how they think about themselves.

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Saama Sane said that when he was a junior at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts, a white student repeatedly called him the N-word as he sat at a table in the library. Sane said he responded by yelling insults back and ended up on the floor in a headlock, all while five white students, some of them laughing, stood by watching. He reported the incident, and the school, which enrolls just over 600 and charges tuition upward of $58,000 a year for boarding students, took disciplinary action against the student, he said.

But Sane felt suffocated at the school, he told NBC News. And the wounds from that incident and many others seemed to still be fresh even after graduating.

"I stopped loving myself because I realized the community did not love who I actually was," Sane said.

Since he graduated, he feels as though he can finally be himself, said Sane, a rising sophomore at Boston College. He has reclaimed his love for making music, something he felt he had to give up at Nobles, as the school is commonly known, for fear of being made fun of by classmates.

A spokesperson said the school could not comment on the specifics of the incident but said, "Noble and Greenough School takes expressions of racism - spoken or physical - with great seriousness and responds accordingly."

In recent weeks, Black students and alumni of elite private high schools, including Nobles, the Brearley School in New York, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and Trinity School in New York, have created Instagram accounts where their peers can anonymously share experiences with racism.

The accounts, with usernames that begin with the words "BlackAt," are part of a broader trend of students' exposing racism through social media, Taylor Lorenz and Katherine Rosman reported in The New York Times.

While many schools have released statements vowing to change, in some cases, the damage has been done, students and graduates say. In their posts on Instagram, Black students have described racist incidents, an inability to ask faculty for help and support, a lack of confidence and trust in authority figures and general feelings of being outsiders.

Catherine Hall, head of school at Nobles, said the school is listening to the stories shared by graduates and striving to be more equitable and inclusive.

"We are working with a group of current student leaders and have also established a Graduates of Color Task Force - a group of graduates spanning six decades - to help plan our work ahead," Hall said in a statement provided to NBC News.

The experiences detailed in social media accounts can affect Black students' mental health and how they approach education, experts said.

Black students are prepared for the academic stress of top private schools, said Howard Stevenson, a clinical psychologist and professor of urban education who researches racial trauma at the University of Pennsylvania. "But what really bothers them is the social status, having to navigate who they are as people of color," he said.

Stevenson studies racial stress and how educators, community leaders and parents can address it. He said Black students often lack a sense of belonging within their private school environments, which - in combination with the racism they experience - affects their long-term mental health.

JahAsia Jacobs, 22, is a graduate of Blair Academy, a private school of about 460 in Blairstown, New Jersey. "I don't feel like I ever belonged to a 'Blair community,'" she said. "I don't think of myself as being a part of the people who the Blair administration protects."

Jacobs said that while she was at the school, she internalized the hurt and lost a part of herself because of the constant microaggressions she battled. As a result, she said, "I really wasn't involved in much outside of classes at Blair and beyond what they required me to do."

"There were so many opportunities, and I found myself not really taking those up, because I just didn't want to endure anything that was more racist or more alienating than I already had," she said.

Jacobs said she got involved in extracurricular activities again only once she got to college, where she has worked as an activist and co-hosted a race and resistance symposium.

"I am just very deeply involved in all the things that I wanted to be doing at Blair but didn't feel comfortable doing," she said.

in a recent statement to the Blair community, Chris Fortunato, Blair's head of school, revealed a plan to further diversity, equity and inclusion.

"We are all committed to more fully ensure that we are an inclusive, safe and welcoming community for every student and every adult," he said. The plan includes increased faculty training, a curriculum audit, efforts to hire a more diverse faculty and a commitment to engage with issues of bias with transparency.

The sense of belonging that Jacobs said she lacked at Blair is essential for the development of young people, said Beverly Daniel Tatum, a psychologist and author of "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race."

"When you are an adolescent in particular, trying to define your sense of identity, who you are, what you hope to be in the future - if you don't feel understood, you're likely to experience a sense of alienation and discomfort," Tatum said.

The consequences of working to fit in

Kynnedi Hines, 17, said she has hidden a part of herself to fit in at Woodward Academy, a private school near Atlanta. She self-censors her speech and tries not to bring any unwanted attention to herself.

The anxiety is the residual effect of a racist encounter with her middle school principal four years ago, Kynnedi said. In her post on the @ blackatwoodward page, she describes the time she and a classmate tried to plan a prom for their entire class. When they met with the principal to get approval, they were told they could not have an "African American-only dance" and that they would need to get signatures from their white peers supporting the event.

When reached by NBC News, the principal had no comment.

Stuart Gulley, president of Woodward Academy, said the former middle school principal retired in May. He said the school will encourage teachers and faculty to participate in "intensive diversity training," which has been offered for at least 11 years. The school will also host discussions with faculty and trained facilitators to digest their mandatory summer reading of "So You Want to Talk About Race."

"Over time, our hope is that we're going to create systemic change and that that change will be long term and regularly evaluated and reflect our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion," Gulley said.

Kynnedi, a rising senior, is captain of the basketball cheerleading team and a tour guide for prospective students, but the encounter, which happened her first year at Woodward, has stuck with her, making her feel intimidated and wary of standing out.

When Black students experience racism, they are often just as hurt by the teachers who stand by and say nothing as they are by the perpetrator, Stevenson said. Black students need to know that their teachers will stand up for them and that acts of racism are not their burden to carry alone, he added.

What has stuck with Kennedy Austin, 22, is the feeling of powerlessness in the face of authority figures.

"I don't know what it's like to be a white student, and if you feel that, but especially as a Black student, you know that [teachers] have a lot more power than you do. And a lot of times they can say or do whatever they want," she said.

Austin started in kindergarten at the Berkeley Carroll School, a private pre-K-12 school in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated in 2015. The stories she shares in the @blackatbc group span elementary through high school. Her accounts include having been hypersexualized by teachers during health class, a white classmate's insistence that she would have helped her escape slavery, having been forced to translate the word "negrita" in class and a general sense of doubt about her ability to get into the colleges of her choice from peers and teachers.

She said that by the time she was given the chance to be herself and to feel empowered, the belief that she was powerless had already been ingrained.

"I've never felt comfortable going to office hours or having those 'I need help' conversations with my teachers, because historically they had never been the ones to help me," Austin said.

The exception came in ninth grade, when Black teachers allowed Austin to feel comfortable asking for support. Even then, she said, it took until her junior year of college to really build the skill.

A representative of the school wrote in a statement to NBC News: "We have been reading and carefully processing the stories from our Black alums and students on the 'Black at BC' Instagram and share their goal of ensuring that Berkeley Carroll is a supportive and welcoming environment for the Black community."

Austin said that although her main interest is in sociology, she is more comfortable in the Africana studies department at her college because of the support she feels she will get.

Despite their traumas, students have found ways to heal. Since graduating, many have found happiness at their colleges and in new communities.

"The only reason I'm thankful for Nobles is because I had to become a way stronger kid because of that school," Sane said.

But, according to Tatum, surviving the schools is not what is in question. These students have the ability to make it through, she said.

"The question is, should it have to be that hard? It should not."

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Black students experience trauma from racist incidents at school, experts say

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Social media accounts, with usernames beginning with the words "BlackAt," have revealed Black students' accounts of racist incidents at elite private schools.

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A big controversy that surrounds racism in schools is the critical race theory. According to this idea, racism is a societal construct that is rooted in legal frameworks and policies rather than being the result of personal prejudice. Many states are currently banning this theory because some individuals insist that this theory is discriminating white people in order to achieve fairness. "As with CRT in general, its popular representation in schools has been far less nuanced. A recent poll by the advocacy group Parents Defending Education claimed some schools were teaching that “white people are inherently privileged, while Black and other people of color are inherently oppressed and victimized”; that “achieving racial justice and equality between racial groups requires discriminating against people based on their whiteness”; and that “the United States was founded on racism.” Many individuals are here for the banning of this theory while others are not.

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Idaho students fill the gallery as H377 is debated and passed by the Idaho Senate on April 26 at the Idaho Capitol in Boise. The legislation is aimed at preventing schools from "indoctrinating" students through teaching critical race theory, which examines the ways in which race and racism influence U.S. politics, culture and law. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/AP)

The nation's reckoning over race has reached thousands of U.S. schools, and so, too, has a conservative backlash.

Schools across the country are working to address systemic racism and inject an anti-racist mind-set into campus life. But where advocates see racial progress, opponents see an effort to shame White teachers and sometimes students for being part of an oppressive system.

In particular, conservatives have seized on the idea that schools are promoting critical race theory, a decades-old academic framework that examines how policies and the law perpetuate systemic racism. It holds in part that racism is woven into the fabric of the nation's history and life - a product of the system and not just individual bad actors.

Critics say this approach injects race into what should be, in their view, a colorblind system. Proponents counter that U.S. schools have never been colorblind and insist they aren't pushing critical race theory anyway. The equity work is critical, they say, to address systemic barriers holding back students of color and to create schools that are truly inclusive.

The issues are widespread. Data consistently shows that students of color are more likely to be disciplined than their White peers and receive harsher punishments for the same infractions. Black and Hispanic students are less likely to be placed in advanced or enriched classes, starting in elementary school. Many experts say school curriculums have failed to adequately reflect the perspectives of Indigenous and marginalized communities. And students and parents themselves often report that school culture does not feel welcoming.

The fight over what to do about that is unfolding in public and private schools, in state legislatures and on school boards, in private Facebook groups and statewide curriculum committees.

At a private school in Manhattan, a teacher publicly complained about efforts to encourage White students to consider their privilege and affinity groups based on race. In Moore County, N.C., school board members are rebelling over state curriculum standards, which mandate history lessons incorporate the experiences and perspectives of marginalized communities.

And in Loudoun County, Va., the school system's pursuit of equity initiatives such as anti-bias training for teachers has led conservative media and lawmakers to accuse the district of forcing students to learn about race too early and to view everything and everyone through a racial lens, sometimes basing conclusions on snatches of information, such as a short video clip of a lesson.

There's also been criticism of the Biden administration for proposing that a federal grant program for teaching U.S. history prioritize programs that "reflect the diversity, identities, histories, contributions, and experiences of all students" and "create inclusive, supportive, and identity-safe learning environments." On Friday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and 38 other Senate Republicans sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona complaining that the changes reflect "a politicized and divisive agenda."

It's no surprise that all this makes people uncomfortable, said Gloria Ladson-Billings, president of the National Academy of Education, an academic research group.

"The moment you make racism more than an isolated incident, when you begin to talk about it as systemic, as baked into the way we live our lives ... people don't like that," she said. "It runs counter to a narrative that we want to tell ourselves about who we are. We have a narrative of progress, that we're getting better."

Perspective: Critical race theory arose to explain why structural racism endures

Educators rarely use the term critical race theory, though some of their work builds on these ideas, especially that racism is systemic.

That means, for instance, a school district that punishes Black students more often than White students or puts White students in advanced classes more often than it does students of color would look for systemic explanations and solutions - perhaps teachers are less likely to encourage Black students to take high-level courses - and not just attribute the gaps to individual actions or choices of students or teachers.

"Schools are now finally looking at the data when it comes to the success of their students, and for some, they haven't been doing a very good job," said Eddie Moore Jr., a diversity consultant based in Green Bay, Wis., who works with schools.

Many school districts, and the country as a whole, see large gaps between test score results based on race. In 2019, 44 percent of White eighth-graders were deemed proficient in math on a test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress. That compares with 14 percent of Black and 20 percent of Hispanic eighth-graders.

Research shows certain disparities begin when children are young. A report last year from the Education Trust, a research and advocacy group, found that Black students represent 16 percent of all elementary school students but 9 percent of students in gifted and talented programs. An Obama administration report in 2016 found that Black children represent 19 percent of all preschoolers but nearly half of preschool children receiving at least one out-of-school suspension.

Many school systems were already working to incorporate diversity and racial equity themes into their policies and curriculum, but the effort spread after the police killing of George Floyd in May and the worldwide protests that followed. The pandemic, too, exposed and exacerbated inequities that have long coursed through the system, spurring action.

The work underway in schools takes a wide variety of forms. Officials are adding the perspectives and experiences of people of color to curriculum, challenging teachers to examine their biases, and reviewing policies on discipline, advanced coursework and other matters with an eye toward identifying and closing racial disparities. Districts are conducting "equity audits" to review their data on race. They are hiring diversity and inclusion consultants and full-time coordinators to ensure an ongoing focus on race, and they are incorporating racial equity into their district strategic planning.

The loudest critic had been Donald Trump, who as president charged that schools were spreading "hateful lies" to children by teaching about slavery and racism, saying those topics insulted the country and its founders. He was particularly fierce about the New York Times's 1619 Project, a collection of articles and essays arguing that the nation's true founding year is 1619, the year enslaved Africans were brought to the shores of what would become the United States.

Trump created a commission, since disbanded, to promote a rosier, more "patriotic" view of U.S. history.

Now conservative pundits, lawmakers and others are arguing that schools are teaching students to see race where they never would on their own and promoting reverse discrimination in an effort to unravel disparate racial outcomes.

In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called for $17 million to fund curriculums that exclude "unsanctioned narratives like critical race theory." In North Carolina, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) established a task force to eradicate " indoctrination in the classroom" after the state adopted new social-studies standards that focus on marginalized groups. The opposition filtered down to Moore County, where school board member Robert Levy is trying to hold up the new curriculum over concerns that critical race theory will infiltrate the district's work. A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia posted an education plan, and two of the seven points were devoted to combating critical race theory.

Oklahoma House OKs ban on teaching critical race theory

In Idaho, a fight over this issue was so intense that it held up passage of a routine budget bill for two weeks while critics argued that the students were being taught critical race theory in school.

To prove their claims, supporters in Idaho pointed to a school handout asking teachers to incorporate "cultural diversity" into their classrooms and an assignment that asked children to create "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters featuring explorers Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama.

"Those assignments are really the application of critical race theory," said Idaho state Rep. Ron Nate (R), who led opposition to a teacher funding bill in the Idaho House over this issue. He said under this application, explorers must be viewed as "oppressors, colonists" rather than "people who were risking their lives going across the oceans with their dream to find new lands."

He and others refused to approve the state budget for teacher salaries until the legislature fast-tracked a bill that prohibits the teaching of critical race theory in Idaho classrooms. A few dozen students, angry about the move, protested at the state Capitol, filling the gallery to watch the vote.

"I really feel they are trying to silence a lot of history that puts the United States in a bad light," said Selina Sanchez, a college student who attended the protest. "I feel we need to learn all sides of history."

Nationally, a new group called Parents Defending Education is collecting objections from parents and has filed three formal complaints with the federal Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. Among their concerns: a North Carolina district that created an "affinity space" where Black staff members can support one another and a Minnesota school district that asked employees to consider how they might have harbored racist beliefs.

In Manhattan, the private Grace Church School had always seen itself as racially progressive. Then, in the aftermath of Floyd's murder, it heard from alumni posting on Instagram, saying they felt marginalized as students there. "It was a wake-up call that we were not doing as excellent a job as we thought we were," said George Davison, the longtime head of school.

The school had already revised its curriculum. Then it hosted workshops on race and created affinity groups where students of different races could discuss their experiences.

At least one teacher, Paul Rossi, objected, both internally and, when he was not satisfied with the response, in public, including in an essay in the New York Post. He said the school requires teachers to treat students differently based on race and rejects dissenting voices.

"My school, like so many others, induces students via shame and sophistry to identify primarily with their race before their individual identities are fully formed," he wrote. "The morally compromised status of 'oppressor' is assigned to one group of students based on their immutable characteristics. In the meantime, dependency, resentment and moral superiority are cultivated in students considered 'oppressed.' "

Davison replied that no one should feel guilty about the circumstances of their birth. But he said students must face the systemic racism that surrounds them.

"Lots of people have, for a generation or two, said, 'Well, I'm not a racist, so I have done all I need to do," he said. "We have arrived at a point in our culture where we say you can't be race-neutral anymore. Either you are against racism and therefore anti-racist or supporting racism."

A heated debate in Loudoun

Perhaps nowhere has the debate over critical race theory grown so heated as in Loudoun County, a Northern Virginia district of 81,000 students that is home to some of the most affluent Zip codes in the country. It is also rapidly diversifying: White students made up 63 percent of enrollment in 2008-2009 but account for about 44 percent of the student body now.

The school system undertook equity work starting about two years ago, after a pair of high-profile reports concluded widespread racism was imperiling Black and Hispanic students' progress through the system. One of the reports came after a 2019 complaint from the county chapter of the NAACP over access to advanced programs.

Virginia AG's office finds elite Loudoun STEM school discriminates against Black, Hispanic students

Loudoun's data from 2011-2012 showed Black students made up 7 percent of enrollment but 20 percent of suspensions, while Hispanic students made up 15 percent of enrollment but 25 percent of suspensions. The authors of the school system's 2019 report on racism, which drew on interviews with several hundred students, teachers and staff members, pointed to a widespread feeling among the student body that Loudoun's discipline system is stacked against children of color.

That same review also found that just 57 percent of Black students and 45 percent of Hispanic students typically earn an "Advanced" - rather than a "Standard" - high school diploma, as compared with 80 percent of White students.

In response, Loudoun spent nearly half a million dollars to retain the consulting firm Equity Collaborative, which helped the district develop a 22-page " Plan to Combat Systemic Racism." It called for teacher trainings to develop "racial literacy" and "racial consciousness," called for forbidding students from wearing Confederate flag gear and proposed alternative forms of discipline to replace suspensions, which were being disproportionately handed to students of color.

The backlash began sometime last summer, spurred at first by the money spent on the consultants, according to interviews with Loudoun administrators and parents on both sides of the debate. Opposition built, fueled by intense coverage by conservative news outlets, as parents and pundits concluded the district was teaching critical race theory. Now a political action committee aims to recall most of Loudoun's school board over the issue.

"It is teaching kids to see other kids through a strictly identity group lens as opposed to seeing each other as individuals with their own stories to tell that are not dependent on their skin color or their ethnicity or really anything," said Ian Prior, a White Loudoun parent and former Trump administration official who has become one of the most prominent critics of the school system.

A popular video, less than two minutes, showed a teacher asking a student to interpret a photo of two women, one of whom appears White and one of whom appears Black. The photo is placed next to a question asking, "What is race?"

"It's just two people chilling," the student says.

"Just two people," the teacher repeats. "There's nothing more to this picture?"

The student persists in giving the same answer, and the teacher grows increasingly frustrated. The clip ends when the student asks whether he is supposed to talk about the women's races.

"At the end of the day, wouldn't that just be feeding into the problem of looking at race instead of just acknowledging them as two normal people?" the student asks.

The teacher replies, "You can't look at the people and not acknowledge that there are racial differences."

Loudoun spokesman Wayde Byard confirmed the video was authentic, from a college-level English class that teaches students to "explore literature through applying a variety of literary theories." The teacher was explaining how critical race theory works, Byard said, as one of several theories studied including structuralism, deconstructionism and feminism.

Interim Superintendent Scott Ziegler added that equity work and critical race theory use similar terms. "But it's certainly not taught as an academic pursuit," he said.

But for many in Loudoun, the video - posted to YouTube, with more than 200,000 views - serves as proof that the school system is teaching students to look at everything through the lens of race.

At least one teacher spoke out to denounce their new professional trainings as racist attempts at indoctrination. Monica Gill, a White Loudoun social-sciences teacher, wrote in the Federalist that the "implicit bias" trainings "accuse our community of systemic racism that needed to be disrupted." She mentioned a video she had to watch, "The Unequal Opportunity Race," that showed two White runners speeding smoothly along while Black runners stumbled and fell.

"This directly implied white America has no concern for the obstacles faced by our black brothers and sisters," she wrote. "Our equity training is guilty of the very thing it warns against" - racism.

Parents have divided into dueling Facebook groups. One supporter of Loudoun's equity work recently suggested, on Facebook, infiltrating the opposing parent group and sharing members' personal information online. There is no evidence it actually happened, but it spurred a sheriff's investigation as well as death threats aimed at the pro-equity group.

An administrator of the anti-racist Facebook group, who is White, said someone threatened to burn down members' houses and contacted their employers to complain about them. After an opponent posted her address on Twitter, she said she began planning to move across the country.

"I don't feel that my family is ever going to be safe here," she said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because she fears for her children if she is identified by name.

One Black mother, also speaking on the condition of anonymity for the same reason, said she has seen ongoing racism in the two decades since she moved to Loudoun County. She said the county chapter of the NAACP, of which she is a member, had complained about racist harassment for years before the school finally undertook its review in 2019.

She said that for several years, someone has dropped Ku Klux Klan fliers tucked into bags of birdseed outside Black, Hispanic, Asian and LGBTQ homes on holidays including Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Once in school, a White child told her son, "You can't play with us because you're dark," causing him to start sobbing.

In her son's case, the principal acted correctly, the Black mother said. But there are "instances from a lot of other Black and Brown parents where that did not happen," she said, pointing to the well-documented fact that Loudoun's students of color face disproportionately high discipline rates. That's why she thinks Loudoun's equity work is vital.

"I knew there was going to be some backlash because - let's keep it real - there are some people who don't believe racism exists," she said. "But I could have never imagined that the backlash would be like this."

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The nation's reckoning over race has reached thousands of U.S. schools, and so, too, has a conservative backlash. Schools across the country are working to address systemic racism and inject an anti-racist mind-set into campus life. But where advocates see racial progress, opponents see an effort to shame White teachers and sometimes students for being part of an oppressive system.

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In the historic case of Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court found unanimously that racial segregation of students in public schools violated the Constitution. This case was a huge movement towards racial issues throughout schools, giving african americans an advancement towards better education, public accommodations and desegregating housing.

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Black students speak out about the racism they face in school

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There are many laws in place that address the issues of discrimination through out schools. Title VI of the civil rights act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and color. This law allows for discrimination to disappear in environments like school and or the workplace. This law is very beneficial because individuals can have their own bias towards people of color and can choose to discriminate or make racial slurs towards someone and it helps to protect people of color.

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Kentucky student who repeatedly used racial slur and assaulted Black students is no longer enrolled, school says

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Sophia Rosing, 22, “is permanently banned from the campus” and “will not be eligible to re-enroll as a student” after the attack captured in a viral video, the University of Kentucky said.

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African Americans have made a lot of progress throughout the years by race and relation.  "And thus it’s news that more than 40 percent of African Americans now consider themselves members of the middle class. Forty-two percent own their own homes, a figure that rises to 75 percent if we look just at black married couples. Black two-parent families earn only 13 percent less than those who are white. Almost a third of the black population lives in suburbia." (Black Progress: How far we've come, and how far we have to go) This statistic allows for outsiders to look at how much progress African Americans have made. The schooling system to has made significant improvements decreasing drop out rates which can play a role in how people have their own bias towards African Americans.

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