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Public schools offer guides to 'decolonized' Thanksgiving

Public schools offer guides to 'decolonized' Thanksgiving

A number of public school districts across the country are encouraging students and staff to "rethink" the Thanksgiving holiday because of the colonial oppression of Native Americans by English settlers.

Several school districts in multiple states are providing teachers and students with resources that criticize Thanksgiving as a colonial holiday and claim the day known for roast turkey, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie is a reminder to Native Americans of genocide inflicted by English settlers.

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Skunk stuck in peanut butter jar spotted in Montgomery Count

The skunk is fine and ran off after being freed.

A skunk aimlessly roaming around a front yard in Willow Grove, Pa. caught neighbors by surprise as it was stuck with a jar on its head.

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Philly Attorney Satirizes The Courtroom With First Novel

By James Boyle (November 10, 2022, 3:00 PM EST) -- A fresh-faced class action attorney finds himself lost in the darker corners of the American legal system in a new book co-authored by a lawyer from the Philadelphia suburbs....

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Visiting Bryn Athyn Cathedral: Pennsylvania’s European Cat

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Kansas Men’s Basketball Adds Three in Early Signing Period

Three guards – Elmarko Jackson (Marlton, New Jersey), Chris Johnson (Fort Bend, Texas), and Jamari McDowell (Manvel, Texas) – have signed National Letters of Intent to play basketball at Kansas, KU head coach Bill Self announced Wednesday. The three will be freshmen at KU for the 2023-24 season. The Kansas class ranks 10th nationally according to 247sports.com. “I feel like all three together give us probably about as good a trio that we have signed on the perimeter since maybe a Frank (Mason), Wayne Selden, Brannen Greene or a Mario Chal ... Read more

Jill Biden heading back to Philadelphia, this time for World

First lady Jill Biden will attend Game 4 of the World Series in Philadelphia on Wednesday.

Biden, who has called herself a “Philly girl” having grown up in nearby Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, will participate in Major Le ... Read more

Congresswoman Madeleine Dean

Born and raised in Glenside, Pennsylvania, to Bob and Mary Dean, Madeleine got her start in politics around the dinner table with her five older brothers and one older sister. She was graduated from Abington High School, and at age 18 won election to ... Read more

Rebecca Kohn selected as Elon University’s next provost

The senior vice provost at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, brings more than 20 years of academic and administrative leadership to the position.

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