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CNN
10-07-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Largest teachers' union in the US endorses proposal that would cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League
The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, has endorsed a proposal to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights group focused on combatting antisemitism, according to an NEA spokesperson. The proposal, titled New Business Item 39, was preliminarily adopted by union delegates at the 2025 Representative Assembly, which took place in Portland, Oregon, on July 5. 'In a narrow vote of over 6,000 NEA members at the 2025 NEA Representative Assembly, delegates voted to forward to the NEA Executive Committee a recommendation that the National Education Association not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) or participate in ADL programs,' an NEA spokesperson said Wednesday. The proposal has not been officially adopted and has been referred to the NEA's Executive Committee for consideration. The committee will then send its recommendation to the union's Board of Directors, according to an NEA spokesperson. No board meeting on the proposal has yet been scheduled, the spokesperson told CNN. For years, the ADL has provided educational resources about antisemitism and the Holocaust in American schools. In an official response, the Anti-Defamation League called the NEA's endorsement 'profoundly disturbing.' 'We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year,' an ADL spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. 'It is our understanding there's an internal NEA process that deals with issues like this and it is far from a completed process.' The NEA represents approximately three million educators across the United States and has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities nationwide. 'As educators, we are committed to ensuring students of every race, religion or national origin have safe and welcoming spaces to learn and grow,' an NEA spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. 'The National Education Association and its members are unequivocally committed to the cause of educating, organizing against and combating all forms of hate and discrimination, including antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bigotry,' the statement added. 'This is a fundamental principle we will never walk away from.'
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Nation's largest teachers' union votes to endorse proposal that would cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League
The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, has endorsed a proposal to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights group focused on combatting antisemitism, according to an NEA spokesperson. The proposal, titled New Business Item 39, was preliminarily adopted by union delegates at the 2025 Representative Assembly, which took place in Portland, Oregon, on July 5. 'In a narrow vote of over 6,000 NEA members at the 2025 NEA Representative Assembly, delegates voted to forward to the NEA Executive Committee a recommendation that the National Education Association not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) or participate in ADL programs,' an NEA spokesperson said Wednesday. The proposal has not been officially adopted and has been referred to the NEA's Executive Committee for consideration. The committee will then send its recommendation to the union's Board of Directors, according to an NEA spokesperson. No board meeting on the proposal has yet been scheduled, the spokesperson told CNN. For years, the ADL has provided educational resources about antisemitism and the Holocaust in American schools. In an official response, the Anti-Defamation League called the NEA's endorsement 'profoundly disturbing.' 'We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year,' an ADL spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. 'It is our understanding there's an internal NEA process that deals with issues like this and it is far from a completed process.' The NEA represents approximately three million educators across the United States and has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities nationwide. 'As educators, we are committed to ensuring students of every race, religion or national origin have safe and welcoming spaces to learn and grow,' an NEA spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. 'The National Education Association and its members are unequivocally committed to the cause of educating, organizing against and combating all forms of hate and discrimination, including antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bigotry,' the statement added. 'This is a fundamental principle we will never walk away from.'
CNN
10-07-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Largest teachers' union in the US endorses proposal that would cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League
The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, has endorsed a proposal to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights group focused on combatting antisemitism, according to an NEA spokesperson. The proposal, titled New Business Item 39, was preliminarily adopted by union delegates at the 2025 Representative Assembly, which took place in Portland, Oregon, on July 5. 'In a narrow vote of over 6,000 NEA members at the 2025 NEA Representative Assembly, delegates voted to forward to the NEA Executive Committee a recommendation that the National Education Association not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) or participate in ADL programs,' an NEA spokesperson said Wednesday. The proposal has not been officially adopted and has been referred to the NEA's Executive Committee for consideration. The committee will then send its recommendation to the union's Board of Directors, according to an NEA spokesperson. No board meeting on the proposal has yet been scheduled, the spokesperson told CNN. For years, the ADL has provided educational resources about antisemitism and the Holocaust in American schools. In an official response, the Anti-Defamation League called the NEA's endorsement 'profoundly disturbing.' 'We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year,' an ADL spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. 'It is our understanding there's an internal NEA process that deals with issues like this and it is far from a completed process.' The NEA represents approximately three million educators across the United States and has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities nationwide. 'As educators, we are committed to ensuring students of every race, religion or national origin have safe and welcoming spaces to learn and grow,' an NEA spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. 'The National Education Association and its members are unequivocally committed to the cause of educating, organizing against and combating all forms of hate and discrimination, including antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bigotry,' the statement added. 'This is a fundamental principle we will never walk away from.'
CNN
10-07-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Largest teachers' union in the US endorses proposal that would cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League
The National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, has endorsed a proposal to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights group focused on combatting antisemitism, according to an NEA spokesperson. The proposal, titled New Business Item 39, was preliminarily adopted by union delegates at the 2025 Representative Assembly, which took place in Portland, Oregon, on July 5. 'In a narrow vote of over 6,000 NEA members at the 2025 NEA Representative Assembly, delegates voted to forward to the NEA Executive Committee a recommendation that the National Education Association not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) or participate in ADL programs,' an NEA spokesperson said Wednesday. The proposal has not been officially adopted and has been referred to the NEA's Executive Committee for consideration. The committee will then send its recommendation to the union's Board of Directors, according to an NEA spokesperson. No board meeting on the proposal has yet been scheduled, the spokesperson told CNN. For years, the ADL has provided educational resources about antisemitism and the Holocaust in American schools. In an official response, the Anti-Defamation League called the NEA's endorsement 'profoundly disturbing.' 'We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year,' an ADL spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. 'It is our understanding there's an internal NEA process that deals with issues like this and it is far from a completed process.' The NEA represents approximately three million educators across the United States and has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities nationwide. 'As educators, we are committed to ensuring students of every race, religion or national origin have safe and welcoming spaces to learn and grow,' an NEA spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday. 'The National Education Association and its members are unequivocally committed to the cause of educating, organizing against and combating all forms of hate and discrimination, including antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bigotry,' the statement added. 'This is a fundamental principle we will never walk away from.'
CBC
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Dartmouth event celebrates Black beauty on Viola Desmond's birthday
A celebration Sunday in Dartmouth to observe the birthday of civil rights icon Viola Desmond also highlighted her contributions to the Black business community in Nova Scotia. A crowd of around 200 people gathered for the event on what would have been Desmond's 111th birthday. It was dubbed Being Black and Beautiful in Downtown Dartmouth and was hosted by the Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission in collaboration with the Black Beauty Culture Association. "We're together celebrating being our own kind of beautiful," said Samantha Dixon Slawter, co-founder of the association. Desmond rose to national prominence for challenging racial segregation after being arrested for refusing to leave a "whites-only" area at a New Glasgow movie theatre in 1946. The theatre was segregated at that time, with Black patrons relegated to the balcony while floor seating was reserved for whites. But she was also a trained beautician who started her practice specifically to address the absence of hair and skincare products for Black women. She was in New Glasgow because she was on a business trip for her successful hair cosmetics company. Slawter said Desmond's legacy as a businesswoman is just as important as her activism. "Black people, we had to actually in some cases we had to do without a beautician. We had to do our own hair. And Viola came up with teaching beauty culture, especially to Black women and for Black women," she said. "She actually changed culture for us." Through the Black Beauty Culture Association, an organization with the stated goal of encouraging equality and equity in the beauty industry, Slawter said she is honouring an under-explored aspect of Desmond's legacy. Mary Lukindo, an apprentice under the Black Beauty Culture Hair Innovator program, said that prior to working for the Black Beauty Culture Association and learning from Slawter, she learned in school about Desmond's activism, but was unaware of her work as a beautician. That aspect of Desmond's life made her more identifiable in Lukindo's eyes, she said. "She really represents what most Black people are," Lukindo said. "We are multifaceted, we are passionate, we are talented." Tim Rissesco is the CEO of the Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, which helped organize Sunday's event. "With working with the Black community, we can encourage other Black entrepreneurs to come to downtown Dartmouth as a place to do business, and we also want to make sure that everybody feels welcome in downtown," Rissesco said. After Desmond's arrest, the Halifax businesswoman was left in jail for 12 hours before being fined $26 for tax evasion. The fine, based on the one-cent difference in tax paid for floor and balcony tickets, was the only way local authorities could legally justify her jailing. Desmond, who died in 1965, was given a posthumous apology and pardon for her arrest by the province in April 2010. She was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2017 and a $10 bill bearing her likeness was issued in November 2018.
