Junior high school students in Des Moines, Iowa who had been practicing to perform a song about picking cotton were told last week that the song would be removed from the program amid criticism from ...

An Iowa junior high school dropped an American folk song from an upcoming spring concert after a parent complained the lyrics were racist, the Des Moines Register reported. >> Read more trending news ...

Mishenichnas Adar, marbim b’simcha. When the month of Adar comes, joy increases., That’s a quote from the Talmud, and the refrain of a song popular for Purim, the joyous Jewish holiday celebrated on ...

A West Des Moines junior high school dropped the song "Pick a Bale of Cotton" after a parent complained that the song's lyrics are racist. Students at Indian Hills Junior High were rehearsing the ...

Pop quiz: Do you think teachers and school officials who don’t see why African American students (and others) were upset to have been asked to sing, “Jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton” at ...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa junior high school dropped an American folk song from an upcoming spring concert after a parent complained the lyrics were racist, the Des Moines Register reported.