The U.S. Supreme Court’s deadlock on Thursday in a key immigration case disappointed college students who had hoped for reassurance that their parents and siblings wouldn’t be deported.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Thursday’s 4-3 Supreme Court decision upholding a racial preference program at the University of Texas at Austin is a dramatic victory for affirmative action, snatched from what once seemed a likely defeat.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-affirmative-action-20160623-snap-story.html
Millions of immigrant parents and their families lost in the misbegotten decision in U.S. vs. Texas. In a 4-4 tie, the Supreme Court returned the issue of their deportation status to the Brownsville, Texas, federal judge who had halted President Obama‘s latest “deferred action” orders in the first place.
A slender young woman with brown hair stood on a Commerce street in early March, ignoring a driver’s pleas to move.
She reached down and bent his front license plate, asked him for money and then yanked his windshield wiper off.
She appeared agitated – from drugs, mental illness or both. As Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies prepared to
Donald Trump stood fuming in the back of the hearing room on Capitol Hill for two hours, impatiently scribbling notes. Staffers had refused to move up his testimony, and no one would give up a seat for the casino mogul.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
Last Sunday morning, Americans woke up to news of a shooting at a nightclub — 49 people dead, most of them gay men. Hours after the news broke, the gunman’s father suggested to the news media that the sight of two men kissing may have prompted his son to kill.
WASHINGTON — For a fleeting moment this week, it seemed as if the massacre in Orlando, Fla., was having the unlikely and unintended impact of helping to bridge the chasm between Republicans and many in the gay community.
Read more in The New York Times.
The nation’s colleges and universities just finished a school year of extraordinary debate on questions about racial inequality, with activists demanding steps to make campuses more inclusive for minority students.
Read more in The Washington Post.
(SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA) The Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission and Office of Human Relations is releasing the following statement to join the Nation and the LGBTQ community in grieving the victims of Orlando’s mass shooting that left 49 dead and 53 injured, and condemning the unspeakable act of hate and intolerance. Harry Adams, Chair
The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism-California State University, San Bernardino expresses its shock and revulsion at the horrible hate motivated attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We reiterate our unwavering support of our friends and neighbors who are members and supporters of the LGBTQ community. We must come together as