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Cameras from Washington, D.C.s ABC affiliate, WJLA-TV, recently capturedangry protesters blocking Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from entering a DC public school.

Protesters created a barricade that blocked DeVos vehicle from entering the premises, holding up signs that read Black Lives Matter and Same on Mike Pence. The crowd chanted Stop DeVos and build black futures as they surrounded the vehicle.

Later, as DeVos was being escorted away, the crowd followed her and continuously shouted shame! as she was escorted away from Jefferson Middle School. One man yelled go back! andaccused her of buying her way into her position.

Keep giving money to Senate and buying your way into the position, one of the angry protesters said. You should be so proud of yourself!

She does not represent anything that they stand for, another protester shouted, presumably about the school she was attempting to visit.

As the car she was escorted into pulled away, one of the protesters attempted to block the car while holding up a Black Lives Matter sign.

The idea that DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist who has donated heavily to Republicans, bought her way into her position as Education Department secretary and isnt qualified for the jobispopular among her left-wing opponentsand has beencirculated in such liberaloutlets as the Huffington Post and Vox. The Rolling Stonealleges that DeVos bought herself a nice little Cabinet position and summarizes just how much money she and her family have given up to the Republican Party.

It cost her $115,000 in personal donations to sitting Republican senators; $950,000 more has flowed in from the DeVos family over the last three and a half decades. And another $8.3 million from the DeVoses has gone to Republican super PACs in the last two election cycles alone. Not cheap! But it got the job done.

Herappointment has been fraught with oppositiondue in large part to her avid support of charter and private schools and opposition federal control over state education systemsand was capped off with Vice President Mike Pences tie-breaking votein the SenateTuesday to confirm her. Aside from a change.org petition that reached over 400,000 signatures that requested she not be confirmed, many have stated they will now be homeschooling their children afterward, interestingly something that DeVos has long supported.

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Western New Mexico University students celebrated Black History Month with a Black Lives Matter talent show at the Fine Arts Center Theatre on Tuesday night. The student-initiated, student-organized event showcased 10 judged performers, as well as professional artists from Albuquerque, to acknowledge widespread violence against black Americans.

Hakim Bellamy, former Albuquerque poet laureate, television personality and friend to WNMU, opened the night with a spoken word performance with fellow Albuquerque poet Colin Diles. For the rest of the evening, the pair acted as emcees for the showcase, introducing the parade of WNMU student acts. Those ranged from emotional renditions of hit songs to recitations of original poems, performed before an audience of more than 150.

I was so happy with the turnout and the reception, said WNMU graduate student and organizer Lauren Daizey. We got our point across with that event and brought the community together, which is the most important. We saw more students at this event than at most that happen on campus.

The point Daizey referred to was that crimes against African Americans are still too prevalent and we have to stop them. Organizers illustrated that point and advertised Tuesdays event with crime scenes spread across campus, complete with the white outlines of bodies on the ground.

They were making people aware that were not talking about history. Were talking about the present, said Emma Bailey, co-founder of the WNMU Center for Gender Equity, which sponsored the event.

They wanted to celebrate Black Lives on campus, said Lydia Huerta, another Center for Gender Equity founder. They wanted to bring a perspective that needs to be heard.

While turnout and reception from the audience encouraged organizers, the event did suffer some disappointment early in the day. Late Monday night, organizers hung a #BlackLivesMatter banner high above the front steps of the Fine Arts Center Theatre. By 11:30 a.m., it had been removed and taken away. Bailey and Huerta contacted the campuss head of custodial services to find out if it was the university itself that removed the banner, which students made for an event in 2016 and previously fluttered outside the Center for Gender Equity. Bailey said that the head custodian said he knew nothing about it.

Organizers still do not know who removed the banner.

Benjamin Fisher may be reached at ben@scdailypress.com.

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A judge recently ruled that footage of Black Lives Matter protests in New York City must be released.

AManhattan Supreme Court Justice ruled this week that the New York Police Department must disclose their surveillance of Black Lives Matter protests, according toThe New York Daily News.

The NYPD must cough up the footage of Black Lives Matter protesters at Grand Central in 2014 and 2015. Department officials werereportedlydetermined not toreleasethe information withthe argument that protesters might be connected to the IslamicState.

Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez dismissedNYPD assistant intelligence chief John Donahues terrorism claims on Monday. However, his ruling didnt become available to the public untilWednesday.

His speculative and conclusive claims of potential related ongoing investigations of incidents against police officers, both in New York and outside of the state and generalized references to use of materials by the ISIS or ISIL terrorists, fail to provide a casualconnection to the protesters and are insufficient to state a generic risk, Mendezwrote.

Following the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, protesterJames Logue introduced the case by challenging the NYPDs denial of a Freedom of Information Law request for information on the rallies.

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Logue said that during the protests, he observed both uniformed and plainclothes police officers regularly and openly recording events as they were taking place.

In addition, hesaid,"The surveillance violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution."

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Rochester City School District has declared next Friday to be a Black Lives Matter day for all students.

February 17th will be Black Lives Matter at School: A Day of Understanding & Affirmation, set aside to be a day of education, dialog and action that will actively engage a significant number of educational communities throughout Monroe County in activities which support understanding and affirmation of Black Lives.

The school district also preemptively responded to criticisms that all lives matter, writing, Of course all lives matter. However, 57% of our students are black, and by almost every measure, people of color are not treated equally by our society. It is especially important to highlight the value of black lives in a society whose history involves centuries of slavery and denial of civil rights to black citizens, the impacts of which continue to this day.

Though the school tells parentsthat the event isnt connected to the national Black Lives Matter movement, links on theresource toolkit for the day include the website for the national movement and a TED talk with the founders of the movement.

The school resource toolkit splits up elementary level and secondary level students for teaching. The elementary level students are taught lessons likeLooking at Race and Racial Identity Through Critical Literacy in Childrens Books, and use coloring book pages that say Black Youth Matter.

Secondary level students must go through lessons titled, Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System, Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Racial Profiling, and What is the School to Prison Pipeline?

Students also watch Jesse Williams BET speech, as well as formulate responses as to why All Lives Matter isnt a good response.

The children will also be recommended websites discussing Michael Brown, as well as encouraged to read things like White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Womens Studies.

Finally, theres a link to the Black Lives Matter Syllabus, which touches on the moral ethics of black rage and riotous forms of protest, the hyberbolic media myth of black on black crime, and violent vs. non violent protest.

The full Google Doc for Black Lives Matter at School Resource Toolkit can be found here.

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Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh took aim at the federal judiciary on the day after the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled not to overturn a lower courts ruling on a hold on President Donald Trumps executive order that halted immigration from seven majority Muslim countries to the United States.

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Limbaugh decried the judges as left-wing liberal hacks before playing a parody mocking the federal judiciary as Black Robes Matter.

[T]hese are not judges, Limbaugh declared. These are left-wing liberal hacks who wear robes. And, in fact, you know what we have here? Its not just the Black Lives Matter; we have Black Robes Matter, and weve just seen the beginning.

After the parody, Limbaugh said to expect more of this given it is where the left has populated themselves.

This is going to continue because this is where the left has populated themselves, he added. Theyve taken over the judiciary, and they are in the bowels of the bureaucracy in unelected positions.

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