Young players on the Watts Bears are part of a larger team effort
The squad, drawn from the projects, is coached by LAPD officers. They’re building not a gridiron dynasty but a stronger community.
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Immigration latest battle for California GOP’s soul: Thomas Elias
Repeated battles for the soul of California’s Republican Party began in earnest in 1968, when the ultra-conservative state Schools Supt. Max Rafferty bested moderate U.S. Sen. Thomas Kuchel in a June primary election and went on to lose badly to Democrat Alan Cranston, who would then be re-elected three times.
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Median Income and Poverty Rate Hold Steady, Census Bureau Finds
WASHINGTON — For the first time in half a decade, median household income did not decrease and poverty did not increase in 2012, the Census Bureau said in the release of a major annual report on poverty, insurance and earnings.
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Cracking the Door Open?
Fifty years after the notorious “stand in the schoolhouse door” to keep black students out of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, the president of the institution is trying to get sororities to open their doors.
Read more in Inside Higher Ed.
Oakland, reeling from gun violence, aims for unprecedented solution
OAKLAND — As a City Council member here, Libby Schaaf is notified each time someone is shot. That, it turns out, occurs several times each day.
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Driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants stir debate
California’s move to allow more than a million immigrants who are in this country illegally to receive driver’s licenses marks a significant but controversial advance in the long campaign to decriminalize their day-to-day lives.
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Secret Society Dips Toe in City Politics, Prompting Lawsuit
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The college students began arriving a little before lunch at Calvary Baptist Church, far more than usual for a local election. The poll workers knew immediately: the Machine was here.
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Sorority Exposes Its Rejection of Black Candidate
On the campus of the University of Alabama, accusations that traditionally white sorority chapters had turned down an apparently impeccable candidate simply because she was black hardly came as a surprise.
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College Costs Drive Record Number of High School Kids to Start Early
Bahiya Nasuuna hasn’t even started college, but she’s already got some academic credits in the bank that will save her time and money and give her a jump on graduating—as she hopes to—within four years.
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Report: Alabama Sororities Reject Black Students
An article in The Crimson White, the student newspaper of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, has set off considerable concern with its allegations that sororities at the institution reject potential members who are black.