The pews at Eddie Goldstein’s funeral were filled with Mexican Americans, reinforcing how flimsy racial and ethnic constructs can be, especially when love is involved.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-becerra-goldstein-20130113,0,2227163.story
Even after the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ same-sex marriages are still not federally recognized, restricting families’ access to services and benefits.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gay-military-spouses-20130112,0,2159295.story
Yesenia Rojas has taken it upon herself to be the voice of the working-class Latino immigrants on Anna Drive — ‘the men and women who put in long days at exhausting jobs, and their children.’
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-anna-drive-20130114,0,7387050.story
It was a reign of terror that reeked of rednecks and white hoods.
Tires were slashed, rocks hurled through windows and acid pellets fired at the car of a black family, who finally fled their neighborhood in November after months of attacks and racial taunts.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks-hatecrimes-20130112,0,3333202.column
WASHINGTON — The head of the National Rifle Assn. expressed confidence Sunday that the current Congress will not pass a new ban on assault weapons, a major aim of gun-control proponents in the wake of last month’s killing of 20 schoolchildren in Connecticut.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-nra–congress-ban-assault-weapons-20130113,0,7282562.story
The boy, who was 10 when he killed his father, could be sent to juvenile detention or be given probation, sent to live with relatives or undergo intensive counseling.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-neo-nazi-sentencing-20130114,0,4686512.story
Over the next decade, more students of color than ever before will pass through the gates of the nation’s colleges and join the ranks of its work force, according to new projections by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Wave-of-Diverse-College/136603/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
STEPHEN IRA BEATTY, a junior at Sarah Lawrence College, uploaded a video last March on We Happy Trans, a site that shares “positive perspectives” on being transgender.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/fashion/generation-lgbtqia.html?ref=education
The diversity officer, Angela McCaskill, was placed on leave in October after administrators became aware that she had signed a petition in Maryland circulated by a group seeking to overturn the state’s gay-marriage law. Voters upheld the law in November. Some people on the campus had said they were concerned that Ms. McCaskill was the
MOUNT OLIVE, W.Va. — Convicted of robbing and raping an 83-year-old woman, Joseph A. Buffey at 19 was no one’s idea of a choirboy. A marijuana smoker and high school dropout, he was out thieving on the night in question 11 years ago and broke into the Salvation Army near the woman’s home to steal