The burning buildings, smashed police cars and scuffles between police officers and angry protesters on Milwaukee’s north
side over the weekend might have seemed like a spontaneous eruption.
Americans are more concerned about—and more supportive of—proposals to close wealth-based achievement gaps among students than they
are about Black-White or Hispanic-White gaps.
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more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Minority student at Pitzer advertised for nonwhite roommate. Her president was critical. Does reaction ignore reality that many white students get white roommates all the time?
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Use-of-force incidents at Los Angeles County juvenile halls have increased in recent months, but probation officials say it’s unclear what’s behind the rise.
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more in the Los Angeles Times.
WASHINGTON — For the past two
years, ever
since 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer, America has been enmeshed in a wrenching discussion about how the police
New study documents continuing gaps (and some progress) in educational attainment of black and Latino students compared to white and Asian students. Another
study suggests most people aren’t that worried about the issue.
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BALTIMORE — As a black man and a acheter viagra generique canada lifelong resident of this city, Ray Kelly has been stopped by the police more times than he can count. And as a community organizer who tried to document police bias after the death of Freddie Gray, Mr. Kelly, 45, had always expected
We are products of the Los Angeles public schools, longtime residents of the city, and most importantly friends. We became friends even though the odds were stacked against us. It happened in 1969 when the two of us — one black, one white — ended up at school together as the Los Angeles Unified School District finally
More than half a century after the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act, the most racially diverse county in the southeastern United States is depriving minority voters of the ability to elect local candidates of their choice, a coalition of civil rights groups has alleged in a federal lawsuit.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Roslyn Lewis was at work at a dollar store here in Tuscaloosa, pushing a heavy cart of dog food, when something popped in her back: an explosion of pain. At the emergency room the next day, doctors gave her Motrin and sent her home.
Her