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A $45,000-a-year school in Los Angeles is locked in a struggle with parents as administrators push for a more progressive curriculum that excludes classic modern American literature like To Kill a Mockingbird and the Lord of the Flies. Parents, faculty, staff and alums of Brentwood School began clashing over the curriculum after the school participated in #BlackoutTuesday, a social media campaign to stand against racism, just days after George Floyd died under the knee of a white Minneapolis cop last year. According to the Los Angeles Magazine, under a #BlackoutTuesday post that featured a black box, some alums criticized the...

Celebrities have taken to social media in recent days in support of Black Lives Matter as protests for racial justice have erupted across the country. And Ashton Kutcher posted to Instagram on Tuesday in support of the BLM movement and called for those who support “All Lives Matter” to be “educated.” In a long IGTV story, the That 70s Show star said “I don’t think that the people posting ‘All Lives Matter’ should be canceled. I think they should be educated.” “So, on Saturday, I posted a blackout of my social media channels, just posted ‘BLM’,” he said. “And a...

iffany Trump joined in on a viral social media trend dubbed “Blackout Tuesday” and called for justice for George Floyd. President Trump’s daughter posted a black square on her Instagram, with the Helen Keller quote, “Alone we can achieve so little; together we can achieve so much.” Hashtags #blackoutTuesday and #justiceforgeorgefloyd accompanied her post. Similar all-black posts flooded Instagram and Twitter Tuesday in a show of solidarity against police brutality against black people.