Tag: blackface

Racist incident provides teachable moment

Dear Tom Houlihan, I just reread your editorial “Viewpoint” in the May 1 issue of the HF Chronicle and was struck by the box reading HATE HAS NO HOME HERE.  That conviction was not shared by the boys who posted pictures of themselves in blackface on a recent Saturday night.[Read More…]

Then H-F High Principal Jerry Lee Anderson, left, and Superintendent Von Mansfield, right, welcomed Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., center, to campus in May 2019 as the school and the community wrestled with a controversial blackface incident. (Provided photo)

Rev. Jesse Jackson urges H-F students to move away from anger over racial incident

  Rev. Jesse Jackson listens as sophomore Aniya Askew,  left, asks her question during a student assembly  Tuesday at Homewood-Flossmoor High School.   (Provided photo)  It’s been more than a week since four Homewood-Flossmoor High School students posted a racist video on social media. Feeling hurt and angry about it is understandable, but students[Read More…]

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