April 23, 2026
A Black teacher in North Carolina was fired for failing to teach his students the necessary curriculum to pass their end-of-grade-level testing, not because he injected race into his lessons, the school argued Thursday in seeking a pretrial win on his discrimination claims.
June 16, 2023
A Black former teacher sued a North Carolina public school in federal court, alleging that he was fired from his job for teaching students a novel about racial justice after white parents complained that the book was too "divisive."