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Contributed Image / Franklin County High School s 1950 yearbook features the school s Rebel Mascot. Contributed Image / Franklin County High School s 1950 yearbook features the school s Rebel mascot. The Tennessee Department of Education s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint alleging racial discrimination in Franklin County Schools after a school board decision in October not to remove the Rebel mascot and fight song Dixi adidas originals ultraboost e from Franklin County High.The complaint, filed by Sewanee, Tennessee, resident Chris Colane on Nov. 9, 2020, claims discrimination on the basis of race by the scho nike sb dunk ol system in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a Dec. 17, 2020, letter from the state to Franklin County Director of Schools Stanley Bean.The complaint follows calls for change over the summer of 2020.Colane, who is white, filed the complaint [b]ecause of the absence of public discussion by any of the board members, I felt our petition was not given due consideration and that the Tennessee Office of Civil Rights would more thoroughly inve yeezy stigate our concerns, she said in an emailed statement. These symbols continue to be a symbol of white oppression of African American students today, she said. There can be no equality of education under such symbols and conditions. Colane said Friday she hopes the investigation can lead to a change, but more importantly I hope Viol Early voting in Tennessee surges with 51% of voters already casting Nov. 3 ballots
ORANGEBURG, S.C. - Investigators didn t buy it when a woman said her two young sons drowned after her car plunged into a river. She ultimately confessed to killing the toddlers, they say - not by dumping them in the water but by suffocating them earlier with her own hands.Broke, jobless and berated by her mother for her failings, Shaquan Duley killed the boys, ages 2 years and 18 months, then strapped their bodies into their car seats before rolling the vehicle into the North Edisto River in a desp stanley mugs erate cover-up attempt, authorities said Tuesday. She truly felt, If I don t have these toddlers, I can be free, Ora botella stanley ngeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said at a news conference. I think she was fed up with her mother telling her she couldn t take care of the children, or she wasn t taking care of the children and just wanted to be free. Coroner Samuetta Marshall said Tuesday the older boy had bruises that suggested he had been in a struggle.Monday s tragic scene of a car being pulled out of the water with children s bodies inside was eerily reminiscent of the 1994 case of another South Carolina mother, Susan Smith, who is serving life in prison for killing her young sons by rolling her car into a lake in the northwest part of the state.Duley, 29, was charged with murder Tuesday and was to be arraigned Wednesday. Authorities were not sure if she had an attorney.She lived with her sons, a 5-year-ol stanley romania d daughter and her mother in a rented home along a street filled with boarded-up,
Contributed Image / Franklin County High School s 1950 yearbook features the school s Rebel Mascot. Contributed Image / Franklin County High School s 1950 yearbook features the school s Rebel mascot. The Tennessee Department of Education s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint alleging racial discrimination in Franklin County Schools after a school board decision in October not to remove the Rebel mascot and fight song Dixi adidas originals ultraboost e from Franklin County High.The complaint, filed by Sewanee, Tennessee, resident Chris Colane on Nov. 9, 2020, claims discrimination on the basis of race by the scho nike sb dunk ol system in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a Dec. 17, 2020, letter from the state to Franklin County Director of Schools Stanley Bean.The complaint follows calls for change over the summer of 2020.Colane, who is white, filed the complaint [b]ecause of the absence of public discussion by any of the board members, I felt our petition was not given due consideration and that the Tennessee Office of Civil Rights would more thoroughly inve yeezy stigate our concerns, she said in an emailed statement. These symbols continue to be a symbol of white oppression of African American students today, she said. There can be no equality of education under such symbols and conditions. Colane said Friday she hopes the investigation can lead to a change, but more importantly I hope Viol Early voting in Tennessee surges with 51% of voters already casting Nov. 3 ballots
ORANGEBURG, S.C. - Investigators didn t buy it when a woman said her two young sons drowned after her car plunged into a river. She ultimately confessed to killing the toddlers, they say - not by dumping them in the water but by suffocating them earlier with her own hands.Broke, jobless and berated by her mother for her failings, Shaquan Duley killed the boys, ages 2 years and 18 months, then strapped their bodies into their car seats before rolling the vehicle into the North Edisto River in a desp stanley mugs erate cover-up attempt, authorities said Tuesday. She truly felt, If I don t have these toddlers, I can be free, Ora botella stanley ngeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said at a news conference. I think she was fed up with her mother telling her she couldn t take care of the children, or she wasn t taking care of the children and just wanted to be free. Coroner Samuetta Marshall said Tuesday the older boy had bruises that suggested he had been in a struggle.Monday s tragic scene of a car being pulled out of the water with children s bodies inside was eerily reminiscent of the 1994 case of another South Carolina mother, Susan Smith, who is serving life in prison for killing her young sons by rolling her car into a lake in the northwest part of the state.Duley, 29, was charged with murder Tuesday and was to be arraigned Wednesday. Authorities were not sure if she had an attorney.She lived with her sons, a 5-year-ol stanley romania d daughter and her mother in a rented home along a street filled with boarded-up,