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MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. – Calling it “a unique chance to interact with the community and discuss issues they face daily,” the Mount Vernon City school board recently began hosting monthly weekend conferences with students, parents and community members.
In an official document released September 26th, the school board provided a schedule of the upcoming monthly events for October 2014 through June 2015.
Topics of the first conference, which took place on October 18th, were “Should the Longfellow Elementary and Middle Schools be Renamed for Benjamin Turner and Rebecca Turner…” and “Multi-Cultural Awareness Conference: Reparations for Mount Vernon.”
In preparation for the October conference, attached to the district’s schedule was 37 pages of history and information on Benjamin and Rebecca Turner and a 48-page document titled “The Case for Reparations.”
Written earlier this year by Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic, The Case for Reparations ultimately supports the passage of H.R. 40, a bill that has been introduced by Rep. John Conyers at the start of every Congress since 1989.