Two men face federal hate crime charges in connection with an attack on four youths in Compton, allegedly as part of a gang’s effort to drive blacks from the area.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hate-crimes-20130210,0,4993296.story
Even if discrimination plays a role in a worker’s firing, an employer is not liable for damages if the employee would have been fired anyway because of poor performance, the California Supreme Court decided Thursday.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/discrimination-workers-firing-santa-monica.html
The standoff highlights a struggle over gay rights in Orange County’s Vietnamese community. Some cultural experts point to a set of customs on morality.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ff-0208-tet-lgbt-20130208,0,2266007.story
TUCSON — Looking back at the school desegregation case he took as a young lawyer, Rubin Salter Jr. sees a pile of wasted money and squandered opportunities. After almost four decades in court and nearly $1 billion in public spending, little has changed for the black children whose right to a good education he had
After decades of friction over immigration, the nation’s labor unions and the leading business association, the Chamber of Commerce, have formed an unusual alliance that is pushing hard to revamp American immigration laws.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/business/business-and-labor-unite-to-try-to-alter-immigration-laws.html?hp&_r=0
The university is joining a small group of other colleges, including Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, that cover at least some sex-change surgeries under their health-insurance plans, according to resources compiled by the Human Rights Campaign.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/brown-u-will-cover-transgender-surgery-under-student-insurance-plan?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
With their growth reflecting dramatic demographic change in the nation’s most populous state, Latinos this academic year became the largest ethnic group among California applicants for the 2013-14 freshman class at the nine University of California system schools. The development coincides with the number of applications from California increasing 6.2 percent over last year to
The Kappa Sigma fraternity’s chapter at Duke University set off a flood of criticism last week for inviting students to a party titled “Asia Prime,” which featured conical hats, sumo loincloths, and an invitation written in a stereotypical accent.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/racist-ragers-and-the-party-papers/55203?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The U.S. Supreme Court is being urged to add another major affirmative-action case to its docket, with proponents of Michigan’s voter-passed ban on race-conscious college admissions asking the court to decide whether such a ban is constitutional.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/US-Supreme-Court-Is-Urged-to/137159/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The ACLU of Southern California announced Wednesday that it had reached settlements with the city of Glendale and the Glendale Unified School District on behalf of eight Latino students who alleged that officials engaged in racial profiling and illegal searches during a 2010 incident at Hoover High School.