Thanksgiving lessons jettison Pilgrim hats, welcome truth

President Lawrence Bacow announced the funding as Harvard released a new report detailing many ways the college benefited from slavery and perpetuated racial inequality.

Conservative takeovers of local school boards have already altered lessons on race and social injustice in many classrooms.

A recommendation to abandon Native American iconography will go before the school board Monday. Resistance has been less vocal than in other districts.