Ben Rappaport
Reporter, Border Belt Independent
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A recent report by the ACLU found that Black students are referred to police far more often than White students in North Carolina, largely as a result of a 2016 law that criminalized disruptive classroom behavior. WHQR’s Kelly Kenoyer interviewed Ben Rappaport of the Border Belt Independent about what that looks like in his region.
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Bladen County is one of the first counties in North Carolina to require participants in its parks and recreation programs to play on sports teams aligned with the sex they were assigned at birth.