An NC Senate committee on May 13 unanimously advanced a bill that which would create the state’s first systematic K-8 math intervention program, modeled on Read to Achieve.
Ten years after Eric Garner was killed by the NYPD for supposedly selling menthol cigarettes, it must be said that a menthol ban won't save lives. Public education, however, will.
The pending ban has become a political tool amid partisan efforts to appeal to Black voters.
Tobacco control leader Carol McGruder explains why a menthol cigarettes ban is needed, addresses racial factors and allays policing concerns.