Racial tensions inflame UCLA student body election, driving calls for more representation

By | May 9th, 2017|Education|

At UCLA, the furor started with a photo of the undergraduate student body president, making a hand sign associated with the Bloods.

Danny Siegel is white. He was wearing a suit and tie.

Many African American students were angered by what they saw as a man of white privilege mocking their community and clueless about the poverty

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Houston has become the most diverse place in America. Deal with it, Texas

By | May 9th, 2017|Intergroup Relations|

The boys sprint in white and yellow uniforms down the green turf, grunting and sweating as the coach shouts from the sidelines. “Búscalo, búscalo,” he yells in Spanish, urging the players to sprint for the ball.

Umusitari!” comes a voice on the sidelines — run down the line — from Biganiro Espoir, a

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How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality: An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices — and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class.

By | May 9th, 2017|Employment & Housing|

The son of a minister, Ohene Asare grew up poor. His family immigrated from Ghana when he was 8 and settled down in West Bridgewater, Mass., a town 30 miles south of Boston, where he was one of the few black students at the local public school. “It was us and this Jewish family,” Asare

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What it’s like to be a teen in L.A. with a parent in the U.S. illegally

By | May 8th, 2017|Education, Immigration|

It was hard not to eavesdrop in the tiny Pico-Union studio where Maria Garcia grew up.

She was around 9 when her father came home one day from his low-wage job as a garment worker and told her mother about the immigration raid at his downtown L.A. factory. She could hear their relief that her father

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Inside a Stealth Plan for Political Influence: To fight campus liberalism, a right-wing group is funneling thousands of dollars to student-government campaigns

By | May 8th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

For Charlie Kirk, higher education is a political battleground — a place where his “Team Right” has been losing for too long.

The rising young conservative star uses his frequent Fox News appearances to blast college campuses as “islands of totalitarianism” filled with liberal students and faculty members who force their worldview upon those around them.

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American University is dealing with a racist incident on its campus. It is not alone.

By | May 8th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Adonis Billizon-Johnson sat amid a sea of empty blue chairs one recent afternoon, patiently waiting for a town hall forum at American University.

“I want to make sure that I have a seat,” said Billizon-Johnson, a 19-year-old from New Orleans. “I’m pretty sure it will be filled today.”

He was right.

Read more in the Washington Post.

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An attorney for San Bernardino terrorism victims is taking on social media apps for harboring extremists. Does he stand a chance?

By | May 5th, 2017|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Like anyone else today, terror groups take advantage of social media apps to promote their work. They post violent videos on YouTube, brag about their exploits on Twitter and organize for battle on Facebook.

Technology companies say they try to banish terrorists from their apps when they’re spotted because the content is too objectionable for their

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Four California high school students sue district over suspensions for ‘liking’ racist Instagram posts

By | May 5th, 2017|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Four California high school students have sued a school district after they were suspended over their responses to Instagram posts that included a black student and coach with nooses around their necks.

The students at Albany High School in the Bay Area “liked” or briefly commented on the posts, according to the lawsuit filed this week

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1 in 8 children in California schools have an undocumented parent

By | May 2nd, 2017|Education, Immigration|

Posing significant challenges for educators, about 1 in 8 students in California schools has at least one parent who is undocumented, according to a new brief from the Education Trust-West.

Undocumented children as well as U.S. citizen children with undocumented relatives have experienced heightened anxieties for several years as a result of deportation policies begun under

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