CLAYTON, Mo. — The march of clergy members, black and white and demanding a full investigation into police actions in St. Louis County, wound from the well-groomed and highly regarded high school, past the curious onlookers out for sushi or Starbucks, and finally to the county prosecutor’s office.
The New York Times
The atmosphere in a South Los Angeles church was at times tense Tuesday night as residents and activists peppered Los Angeles police officials with questions about two officers’ fatal shooting of a mentally ill man.
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FERGUSON, Mo. — Even as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was scheduled to arrive in St. Louis on Wednesday, law enforcement officials and local leaders said they were hopeful that they had turned a corner in calming the restive community of Ferguson after 12 days of protests and unrest.
The New York Times
The San Diego City Council voted Monday to override the mayor’s veto of a minimum wage increase — setting the stage for another high-profile political fight between the Democrat-controlled council versus the Republican mayor and the business establishment.
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — After years of arresting students for on-campus fights and damaging school property, Los Angeles school officials are adopting new policies to reduce the number of students who are disciplined in the juvenile court system.
The New York Times
The trigger for civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo. — the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer — has also provoked riots in American cities both small and large in the last two decades. But few of those disturbances were as stubbornly resistant to resolution as
A good colleague, Vasti Torres, wrote a piece years ago entitled “Mi Casa Is Not Always Like Your House.” In this piece she encouraged folks to use a culturally sensitive lens in the context of higher education. Most importantly, she talked about Latino students from a Latina perspective.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
SAN FRANCISCO — The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supposed to end racial discrimination, but people of color might have just as much difficulty today accessing the same health care, educational and employment opportunities as Whites as they did prior to the passage of the historic legislation.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters on Sunday to express their outrage over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 25-year-old black man who family members have described as mentally challenged.
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