svg]:overflow-visible">Listen to article • 0:00 minBy the time Black History Month arrived at Chesaning Middle School in central Michigan in 2024, the only Black girl in the fifth grade had already endured a string of racial slurs. On the bus, she was called a “monkey,” she said. Students hurled the n-word at her and said her skin was “burnt like a piece of chicken.”Then, apparently inspired by a February lesson about slavery, a white boy asked her, “Hey slave, where are your tools so you can get back to working?”School officials told the girl’s mom that they were dealing with the...