A Florida high school paused distribution of its yearbook over coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement
CNN
Florida teacher David Fleischer says his students on the yearbook committee spent the past year carefully planning the topics and events they wanted to include in their high school's yearbook -- and they were proud of the finished product.
But on Friday, the students at West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines were told that the book's distribution had been suspended by the school district because of two pages that focused on the Black Lives Matter movement, Fleischer told CNN.Elected officials, Jewish advocacy groups and civil rights leaders are vowing to “push back” against the message of a White nationalist group that staged a march last week near downtown Columbus, Ohio, calling the demonstration an act of hate unwelcome in their community – and the United States more broadly.
Senate Democrats have confirmed some of President Joe Biden’s picks for the federal bench this week in the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s calls for a total GOP blockade of judicial nominations – in part because several Republicans involved with the Trump transition process have been missing votes.