Mount Vernon Teacher Earns Anti-Defamation League 'Gold Star' Award
Josephine Kirkland-Hudson, of Rebecca Turner Elementary School in Mount Vernon, brought "No Place for Hate" to all 16 Mount Vernon schools. MOUNT V...

Josephine Kirkland-Hudson, of Rebecca Turner Elementary School in Mount Vernon, brought "No Place for Hate" to all 16 Mount Vernon schools. MOUNT VERNON, NY — A Mount Vernon teacher who helped to share a lesson that will inarguably make the world a better place for the next generation, has been honored for her efforts. At its first in-person banner ceremony since the COVID-19 pandemic, the ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) New York/New Jersey just announced the recognition of an educator who has gone above and beyond to make her school community "No Place for Hate.