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A film Directed by Ari Luis Palos                                                                           The film presents a series of Raza studies controversy that led to the bill’s introduction that would ban these ethnic studies programs. Raza studies were gaining popularity in 1997 in Tucson, Arizona. The Tucson Unified School District data reported a forty-eight percent dropout rate in graduation among the Latino student population.   In response, the district created a study group that identified different variables that caused the diminishing graduation rate among Latinos. Eventually, a social justice pedagogy gained traction. Raza’s studies made it through the school district governing board recommendation. The goal is to lower the Latino dropout rate. In 2002, the Tucson Unified School District conveyed a substantial ninety-three percent progress on graduation rate among Latino students. The film illustrates the classes taught in the Raza studies program. In addition,

"Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools" Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library The film conveyed a topic on Abolitionist Teaching: " This teaching method, according to Bettina Love, comes from a critical race lens and applies methods like protest, boycotting, and calling out other teachers who are racist homophobic, or Islamophobic. She added that this method teaches about Black joy and always putting love at the center of the strategy. Abolitionist teachers encourage educators to talk about racism and homophobia in their classrooms; they organize marches and boycott," she added. https://abolitionistteachingnetwork.org/ The Speakers Tina L. Love, Goldie Mohammed, and Tina Simmons expressed concerns that the current US curriculum is not responsive to the black histories and identities and their desired future selves. "The hiring practice does not reflect explicit, black-oriented questions to teach black stu

  The author James Baldwin's documentary film "I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO," aims to reckon with the lives and deaths of Martin, Medgar, and Malcolm. He wanted to share the dreadful journeys of these leaders to expose the racism that is ravaging the country, the United States of America. As a speaker in one of the debates, Mr. Baldwin reiterates what Mr. Robert Kennedy mentioned, "It was conceivable that in 40 years in America we might have a Nigger president." Mr. Baldwin answers , "That sounded like a very emancipated statement, I suppose. To white people, we are not in Harlem when this statement was first heard. Not here and possibly will never hear the laughter and the bitterness in the school which is taken was greeted on the point of view of Harlem barbershop. Bobby Kennedy only got here yesterday, and he is already on his way to the presidency. We have been here before 100 years, and now he tells us that maybe in 40 years if you are good, you might become