School may remove Lincoln’s name because he didn’t show ‘black lives mattered to him’
San Francisco may remove Abraham Lincoln’s name from a high school, because a district committee says the 16th president — who abolished slavery — did not demonstrate that “black lives mattered to him.” Lincoln is one of dozens of historical figures who the city school district’s renaming committee argued led lives so rife with racism, …
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