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‘I Was Stunned’: Minnesota Girl Speaks out Against BLM Poster in Classroom

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‘I Was Stunned’: Minnesota Girl Speaks out Against BLM Poster in Classroom
Protesters rally outside the Brooklyn Center police station in Minnesota on April 13, 2021. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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6/22/2021|Updated: 6/22/2021

A 9-year-old girl from Minnesota has gone viral online after confronting her local school board, which she said had contradicted its own “no politics” policy by displaying a Black Lives Matter (BLM) poster in a classroom.

The girl, who only identified herself as “Novalee,” is a student at an elementary school in Lakeview Area Schools, which serves the Dakota and Scott Counties in the southern suburbs of Minneapolis. She gained popularity on social media because of a video in which she called on the school district to remove the BLM posters.

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Bill Pan
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Bill Pan is an Epoch Times reporter covering education issues and New York news.
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