Report: Americans More Concerned About Wealth-based Achievement Gaps Than Racial Inequities

By | August 15th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

Americans are more concerned about—and more supportive of—proposals to close wealth-based achievement gaps among students than they

are about Black-White or Hispanic-White gaps.

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Probation statistics show increase in use of force at L.A. County juvenile halls

By | August 12th, 2016|Police & Community|

Use-of-force incidents at Los Angeles County juvenile halls have increased in recent months, but probation officials say it’s unclear what’s behind the rise.

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Some Women Won’t ‘Ever Again’ Report a Rape in Baltimore

By | August 12th, 2016|Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — For the past two

years, ever

since 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer, America has been enmeshed in a wrenching discussion about how the police

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Findings of Police Bias in Baltimore Validate What Many Have Long Felt

By | August 10th, 2016|Police & Community|

BALTIMORE — As a black man and a acheter viagra generique canada lifelong resident of this city, Ray Kelly has been stopped by the police more times than he can count. And as a community organizer who tried to document police bias after the death of Freddie Gray, Mr. Kelly, 45, had always expected

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Op-Ed: How LAUSD successfully tackled the racial divide in 1969

By | August 9th, 2016|Education|

We are products of the Los Angeles public schools, longtime residents of the city, and most importantly friends. We became friends even though the odds were stacked against us. It happened in 1969 when the two of us — one black, one white — ended up at school together as the Los Angeles Unified School District finally

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District mapping is diluting minority votes in this Georgia county, civil rights groups allege in lawsuit

By | August 9th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

More than half a century after the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act, the most racially diverse county in the southeastern United States is depriving minority voters of the ability to elect local candidates of their choice, a coalition of civil rights groups has alleged in a federal lawsuit.

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Minorities Suffer From Unequal Pain Treatment

By | August 9th, 2016|Health|

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Roslyn Lewis was at work at a dollar store here in Tuscaloosa, pushing a heavy cart of dog food, when something popped in her back: an explosion of pain. At the emergency room the next day, doctors gave her Motrin and sent her home.

Her

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San Bernardino County reaches resolution with federal government over disabled students

By | August 8th, 2016|Disability, Education|

San Bernardino County has reached an agreement with the

federal government after an investigation found that it violated

federal law by not having a system in place to identify students with disabilities in

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