Boston cracks down on slamdancing, and more

Boston cracks down on slamdancing

Boston police are cracking down on aggressive dancing at heavy-metal concerts. “Mosh pits” date back to the 1970s, but police say they will no longer tolerate metal fans jumping and slamming into each other. “Dancing is a First Amendment right,” said police spokeswoman Nicole Grant, “but the behavior itself is a violation.”

Teacher's poetry coaching leads to suspension

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A Virginia English teacher has been suspended for allegedly telling a black student to read a poem “blacker.” Ninth-grader Jordan Shumate claims teacher Marilyn Bart interrupted his reading of Langston Hughes’s “Ballad of a Landlord,” and said, “Blacker, Jordan—c’mon, blacker. I thought you were black.” Bart allegedly finished the poem herself, sounding, in Shumate’s words, “like a slave, basically.”