http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4509965/detail.html?rss=la&psp=newsBlack Students Sue School District Over Racial Harassment
Classmates Accused Of Using Racial Epithets, Circulating Racist Literature
POSTED: 4:20 pm PDT May 19, 2005
UPDATED: 4:59 pm PDT May 19, 2005
VALENCIA, Calif. -- Black high school students who claim their complaints of being harassed by white students were ignored by a Santa Clarita Valley school district sued the district Thursday.
The civil rights lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on behalf of four black students who claim they have been subjected "to an unremitting campaign of hate and bias at Valencia High, where African-Americans are approximately 5 percent of the Valencia student population," said their attorney, Gloria Allred.
A message left with a representative for the William S. Hart Union High School District was not immediately returned. A representative for the school referred questions to the district.
Allred said some students on campus "openly espouse white supremacist values," use racial epithets and circulate racist...