The NYCLU highlighted research and state guidance that found classroom simulations of traumatic historical events can be distressing for students.

The NYCLU sent a letter to the Le Roy district after students, including Black children, were required to roleplay as former ...

A New York school district is under fire after a student and parent filed a complaint over a classroom history lesson about ...

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) says students in the Le Roy Central School District were forced to mimic ...

Tovia Poles said her 13-year-old daughter, Jaianna Young, came home upset one day after taking part in a class activity about ...

Although Crosby signed a lucrative, three-year extension with the team in 2025, he wasn't happy with how the last regime ...

Sharecropping is a system where the landlord-planter allows a tenant (usually a poor, Black family) to farm the land in exchange for a share of the crops they harvest. This encouraged poor tenants to ...

The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...

Sharecropping became popular after the Civil War’s end in 1865 when landowners no longer had slaves and there were millions of freed slaves looking for work. In many cases, former masters turned to ...