Acknowledging their failure to stem a surge in homelessness, Los Angeles’ elected leaders on Tuesday said they would declare a “state of emergency” and devote up to $100 million to the problem. But they offered few details about where the money would come from or how it would be spent, leaving some to question the
Federal immigration agents have returned to Los Angeles County jails to seek out deportable inmates under a new policy by Sheriff Jim McDonnell that has prompted criticism from immigrant advocates who say it could lead to racial profiling.
The new Sheriff’s Department policy, made public Tuesday, comes after county lawmakers voted this year to end a
When Rini Sampath decided to run for student body president at the University of Southern California, she said some students told her she would never win. She was a young woman and a minority, and she was running on a ticket with another woman, who was also a minority.
Their advice? Choose a white, male student as
McALLEN, Tex. — At the Republican debate on Wednesday and throughout the campaign, candidates led by Donald J. Trump have assailed illegal immigration, and some have questioned whether children who are born to immigrants in this country illegally should be considered American citizens.
But here on the
This week, brown children across America learned a lesson: If you try to be like Steve Jobs, you could get arrested.
By now, you’ve heard about 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a boy who brought a homemade clock to his high school in Irving, Texas. School officials and police called the engineering project a “hoax bomb.” Late Tuesday
“We should round up all the gays and send them to Uganda to be shot!”
This was a friend of mine speaking, an educated entrepreneur in his 30s, a devout Christian from Nigeria. A homophobe.
We need to protect the children, families and the culture of Nigeria, he continued. Handing out the harshest punishments
With various working definitions of genocide, debates about the term’s application to historical events can get heated. But can such debates ever get a student kicked out of class? That’s what a sophomore at California State University at Sacramento says happened to her, after she challenged a professor who allegedly said the term “genocide” wasn’t
Dr. J. Luke Wood and Frank Harris III — two prominent education researchers — have developed a large-scale online professional development training program designed to help faculty at community colleges in California do a better job of teaching young men of color.
The initiative is a partnership between local community colleges and the Center for Organizational
For more than a decade, state educators have focused on helping black and Latino students perform as well in school as their white and Asian peers, calling the issue a social and economic imperative.
Data from a more difficult, new state testing system suggest that they still have a long way to go.
The new wave of
As students of color continue to find ways to process the events that have unfolded recently across the country, faculty and staff are also working to find ways to help students with this process—and cope themselves.
From changing curricula to even a new textbook titled Black Lives Matterto finding their places in protests with the students, the