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As His Term Wanes, Obama Champions Workers’ Rights

By | September 1st, 2015|Employment & Housing, Intergroup Relations|

WASHINGTON — With little fanfare, the Obama administration has been pursuing an aggressive campaign to restore protections for workers that have been eroded by business activism, conservative governance and the evolution of the economy in recent decades.

In the last two months alone, the administration has introduced

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The loaded term ‘anchor baby’ conceals complex issues

By | August 27th, 2015|Immigration, Intergroup Relations|

Donald Trump proudly throws it around. Jeb Bush stumbled over it. And Hillary Clinton and other Democrats have decried it.

The loaded term “anchor babies” has become a lightning rod of the 2016 presidential campaign.

It is used as a pejorative, often meant to conjure images of women crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to give birth to children

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San Francisco Firefighters Become Unintended Safety Net for the Homeless

By | August 27th, 2015|Disability, Employment & Housing, Health|

SAN FRANCISCO — When the emergency bell sounds at Fire Station 1 here, firefighters pull on boots and backpacks, swing into Engine 1 and hurtle out the door in almost a single motion, a blast of red lights and caterwauling sirens. More often than not, there is no fire.

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#FergusonSyllabus: How do we teach teens about injustice?

By | August 25th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

For America’s students, this last year has been a living history lesson in the making.

It’s common for the average teenager to wake up to a social media stream of dash-cam videos, hashtags and articlesdepicting police shootings and unrest in Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore, or even right here in Los Angeles.

Despite this full-on immersion, some teachers may

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Black Faculty Expected to Entertain When Presenting

By | August 24th, 2015|Education|

Black faculty members are expected to be “entertaining” when presenting their academic research to their mostly White peers.

That’s the findings of a new study conducted by Dr. Ebony O. McGee, an assistant professor of education, diversity and urban schooling at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development who co-authored the article “Entertainers or Education

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Activists come up with a plan to end police killings. Here it is

By | August 21st, 2015|Police & Community|

Have a plan, she said. On Aug. 11, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke privately with a group of Black Lives Matter protesters who had tried to disrupt one of her campaign events in New Hampshire.

Clinton said raising awareness about inequality would not be enough — there should be a specific vision to improve the lives of

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LAPD urges officers to be community guardians, not warriors on crime

By | August 21st, 2015|Police & Community|

For years, Los Angeles police officers have worked under the shadow of the department’s dark past.

The LAPD of the 1970s and ’80s acted as a hard-charging, occupying force that raided poor neighborhoods and rounded up anyone in sight. Police stormed suspected crack houses, tearing down walls with a tank-like battering ram. Officers of that era

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How Texas Could Set National Template for Limiting Abortion Access

By | August 19th, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

Efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and calls for tighter abortion laws at the Republican presidential debate have moved abortion rights back into the national spotlight. But the real fight is at the state level. The next big Supreme Court case involving abortion is expected to come from Texas, where a 2013 law led

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