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Some places in the USA are trying to minimize how much African-American Studies appears on school curriculums, but not San Francisco.
@SFPublicPress reports on how a half dozen high schools in the Bay Area will offer the subject as an Advanced Placement course in the upcoming school year, and why educators are enthusiastic about this.
Palestinians look at the aftermath of the Israeli attack on a UN-run school that killed dozens of people in the Nuseirat refugee camp [Ismael Abu Dayyah/AP]
Imad al-Maqadmeh, a wounded Palestinian boy, says his father was killed in the Israeli attack on the UN-run school.
“What did we do? There are no armed people in the school. There are children playing. We play together … Why did they bomb us?” he said, his face bruised and bleeding.