This activity is an excerpt from our curriculum packet, "Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern Textile ... is our duty to question [why textile manufacturers] circulate ...

A federal lawsuit claiming an Illinois teacher gave Black students bags of cotton after a lesson about slavery drew outraged community members to their school board meeting Tuesday. The racial ...

An Illinois school district is facing accusations of racial discrimination and harassment following a viral incident where ...

3. The cotton was used in an activity where students put their hands in a box to determine what was inside, the lawsuit said. After the activity, the teacher gave the two Black students in the ...