(7 Jun 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nolensville, Tennessee - 14 April 2023
1. Wide of football field during flag football practice
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Harmony Kennedy, High school student:
“Something happens everyday. But it’s kind of hard to report on it if we don’t have the right ears or right witnesses.”
3. Wide of flag football team practice
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Harmony Kennedy, High school student:
“I was in the sixth grade in the gym and someone had dropped their trash. And I was on my way to pick it up because I don’t like when there’s trash on the floor, so I’m going to pick it up. So a kid, it was in P.E. class and we were in the gym, and he was like, pick up my trash because you’re a slave and I was like… excuse me? Like, is this real?”
5. Mid of team member braiding Kennedy’s hair
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Harmony Kennedy, High school student:
“One of the worst instances I probably had was when someone said they were going to call the KKK on me at school. I was at my locker and I was like, just get out of my face.”
7. Mid of sign for Nolensville Knights football
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Harmony Kennedy, High school student:
“I feel like them taking away African American history is not teaching the students how to respect African American people or sympathize with them on a level like, when they see someone getting bullied or when someone’s being racist towards somebody, they’re not going to call them out on it.”
9. Mid of flag football team members’ shoes
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Harmony Kennedy, High school student:
“African American history would give us a bit of a background of where we’ve come from and how we came together as a whole and as a community and what accomplishments we’ve done. But it’s kind of hard to know where we came from when they’re not teaching it.”
11. Mid of Kennedy walking into her home with her backpack after school
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Harmony Kennedy, High school student:
“Growing up as a Black girl in Williamson County, it’s hard. It really did affect my image and I used to cry to my mom. I used to be like, I used to cry thinking I looked crazy just going to school. Like I don’t understand what’s wrong with me?”
13. Mid of Kennedy with her friend and sister at home
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Harmony Kennedy, High school student:
“When my sister comes to high school, I want her to have a good experience without anybody telling her her hair looks funny or without anybody telling her her skin looks funny. I also want her to be taught real African American history. I want her to know about where she came from.”
15. Close of flag football team members’ shoes
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Harmony Kennedy, High school student:
“When I heard they were removing African American history, and like, banning LGBTQ, I almost started crying. It’s definitely emotional because we’re not doing anything to anybody. Why do they care what we personally prefer or what we look like?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee - 14 April 2023
17. Close of sign for The Education Trust
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Meili Powell, The Education Trust Advocacy & Partnerships Manager:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucks County, Pennsylvania - 15 November 2022
19. Close of Leo Burchell driving to Bucks County School District board meeting
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Leo Burchell, High school student:
21. Close of items on Leo’s desk at home
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Leo Burchell, High school student:
“The people at my school have been very supportive, but there are policies in the school district that might make them less supportive.”
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