By Safire R. Sostre ·Updated August 17, 2022
A Black mother filed a civil lawsuit last week against the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Board of Education, alleging that her daughter was left traumatized after a cotton picking field was created at her elementary school in 2017 to teach students about what life was like for enslaved people.
The mother, Rashunda Pitts, said that her daughter experienced “emotional distress” as
