This just in from the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable concerning the yearbook fiasco at Charter Oak High School:
“Civil Rights Leaders Call on Black Students at Charter Oak High School to Turn Racially Offensive Yearbooks” In to School Officials
Press Conference:
When: Lucy Florence Coffeehouse, 3351 W. 43rd St., Leimert Park, L.A. 90008
When: Thursday, July 3, 10:00 AM
Civil rights leaders called on African-American students at Charter Oak High School to turn in all racially defaced Yearbooks. School officials have not told when or if the yearbooks will be replaced. “Charter Oak school officials have made a vague promise to replace the yearbooks. They have not said when that will happen. Therefore we will call on black students to turn in their defaced yearbooks to the school district office,” says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, President, Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, ” The action sends the message that the offensive year books must be immediately replaced and a formal apology issued to the parents and students by Charter Oak District school officials.”