Anti-Bias Task Force

The Town Board has advocated for respect, collaboration, and trust regarding their decisions about the Anti-Bias Task Force. You get what you give.

Riverhead Central School District officials have opened an investigation this week into swastikas drawn on desks in a Riverhead High School classroom.

Riverhead’s newly reorganized Anti-Bias Task Force came face-to-face with a shocking racial bias incident at its first meeting Monday, hearing details of the incident from the family of children who were assaulted and called a racial slur at a highs school football game Sept. 9.

Riverhead Town’s Anti-Bias Task Force will receive more oversight from the Riverhead Town Board moving forward, according to board members, after the task force’s previous leadership was removed and replaced last week without the group's input.

The Anti-Bias Task Force's membership should look like the town, said Council Member Ken Rothwell, who is the Town Board liaison to the committee. Right now, it's "all Caucasian women in the Democratic Party," he said.

The award-winning 2004 film is about a 1998 project undertaken by middle school students in rural Tennessee to understand the magnitude of the Holocaust by compiling six million paper clips to represent the Jews who died during the genocide.

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force puts the spotlight on five local Women Making History Saturday at Riverhead Free Library.

The Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force invites the community to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with SEPA Mujer at the Riverhead Free Library, Tuesday Sept. 6 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and all are welcome. 

Experts from Family Service League will share coping skills and strategies to work through trauma.  They’ll also share information on warning signs and risk factors to look for and how to have a preventative conversation that may save a life.Free program, Monday July 11, 6 p.m. at the Riverhead library.

The Suffolk County Historical Society and Southampton History Museum are suspending their executive directors and pledging to increase the diversity of their leadership after apologizing to members of the Black community for featuring Ku Klux Klan-related content on their websites during Black History Month.