OBERLIN, Ohio — Oberlin College, known as much for ardent liberalism as for academic excellence, canceled classes on Monday and convened a “day of solidarity” after the latest in a monthlong string of what it called hate-related incidents and vandalism.
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The numbers alone were stark and worrisome: About 41 percent of all Mexican immigrants 16 to 19 years old in New York City have dropped out of school, according to census statistics — more than double the rate of any other major immigrant group and more than four times the city’s overall rate.
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Oberlin College canceled classes on Monday and gathered students for what campus officials called a “day of solidarity” after a person wearing a hood and robe that resembled a Ku Klux Klan outfit was reportedly seen near the college’s Afrikan Heritage House. The incident was the latest in a “series of other hate-related incidents on
Minority provosts are less represented in higher education than they were five years ago, a pattern that may signal greater challenges for diversifying college presidencies in the future, a new study has found.
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The shift in favor of gay rights may have an effect on the justices. If not, it could still doom restrictive marriage laws in liberal states like California.
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McCOMB, Miss. — In the refined air of the United States Supreme Court, the questions posed by justices on Wednesday seemed so big as to be unanswerable: Are parts of the Voting Rights Act an unfair infringement on state sovereignty? How different is the South these days from other regions, and from itself in bloody
Three police officers knocked on the apartment door of a 15-year-old boy. He had already been on both sides of a police blotter: shot and stabbed, but also arrested on robbery charges. He ran in an East Harlem gang and lived with his grandmother on the seventh floor of a public housing building, where the
A letter from anti-gay former LAPD Chief Ed Davis is circulating on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ showing Davis’ harsh 1975 response to Sharon D. Cornelison, former president of the Christopher Street West Association.
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A rally for the transgender community echoed from an unexpected corner of the country this week: a Boston fraternity.
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In a Supreme Court brief backing same-sex marriage, the Obama administration makes an argument that would also affect laws in seven other states.
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