A school district in Tennessee has agreed to implement reforms to its practices after a federal investigation found evidence of racist harassment, which included a Black student called racial slurs and subjected to a mock slave auction where he was “sold” to his white peers.
In a settlement with the Hawkins county school district in eastern Tennessee, the US Department of Justice said it had secured significant changes to school policies after it found the district was “deliberately indifferent to known race-based harassment in its schools, violating the equal protection rights of Black students”.
