U.S. colleges and universities are experiencing increased student activism as young people protest escalating college costs and hostile racial climates on their campuses. And, findings from a new report suggest that participation in demonstrations may intensify in the coming months.
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Today’s American college freshman is more liberal, less religious and increasingly committed to civic involvement and political activism than her predecessors in previous generations, according to a national survey released Wednesday by UCLA researchers.
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teenager who was born female and uses the boys’ locker room at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego has triggered a dispute over a state law that seeks to accommodate transgender students.
A Poway Unified School District board meeting was packed Tuesday night with people raising questions about student rights.
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Rev. Fred Morris is familiar with violence in Latin America.
Morris, currently leading North Hills United Methodist Church, survived detention and torture at the hands of Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1974.
That’s one reason Morris said he’s ready to defy Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and offer his place of worship as a refuge for Central Americans
Scott N. Brooks, draped in a dapper shawl-collar sweater, looked out on the auditorium of mostly white students in puffy coats and sweats as they silently squirmed at his question. Why, he had asked, does Maria Sharapova, a white Russian tennis player, earn nearly twice as much in endorsements as
High school ethnic studies courses focusing on how race and culture can impact life and identity can sometimes improve attendance and academic performance of students who are at risk of dropping out.
That’s the finding of a recent study by Stanford University researchers who examined the effects of ethnic studies courses at San Francisco public high
Responding to calls for help from San Francisco’s mayor and Board of Supervisors, the U.S. Department of Justice has launched a review of the city’s Police Department, which has been under fire for the shooting of a young black man in December.
The two-year review will be conducted by the Office of Community
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, the leading scholar of the first half of the 20th century, defined the urgency of black social responsibility in his famous essay “The Talented Tenth” — 10 being the percentage of the African-American demographic needed to lead the race into an integrated, equal America. In
Punxsutawney Phil must have seen his shadow last year at the Oscars and decided institutional racism was going to be around for another year. For the second year in a row no people of color were nominated for the top honors in America’s entertainment industry. In a country that is 37 percent people of color,