It’s time for airlines to stop ejecting passengers for looking or acting Muslim

By | April 19th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

There isn’t much that one can say conclusively about incidents in which passengers have been removed from airplanes because someone they were looking or acting in a menacing way except for these points:

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Young Girls of Color Still Facing Challenges on the Road to Higher Ed

By | April 19th, 2016|Education|

It has long been assumed that girls of color are faring much better than their male counterparts. But that’s not necessarily true, experts say, drawing new attention to the daunting challenges that young girls of color face as they progress through adolescence and go on to enroll in college.

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Mendez vs. segregation: 70 years later, famed case ‘isn’t just about Mexicans. It’s about everybody coming together’

By | April 18th, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

As a child, Sylvia Mendez thought her parents’ court case was all about a playground.

That’s because in 1944, the school bus would drop her off at the white school, which had “manicured lawns” and a “beautiful playground,” but she wasn’t allowed there. Instead, she would have to keep walking down the street to the Mexican

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UC Berkeley student says he was taken off a Southwest flight at LAX for speaking Arabic

By | April 18th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

A UC Berkeley student who fled Iraq as a teenager said he was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight at LAX two weeks ago and questioned about why he was speaking in Arabic on his phone.

 

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iddle Eastern Students Ask, Is Idaho State Safe?

By | April 15th, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

bout 50 Idaho State University students from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have reported that their homes have been burglarized over a period of several weeks, leading some to contemplate transferring and jeopardizing the university’s flow of students from the Middle East. In some cases hateful messages were left behind in the students’ homes, according to 

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Surgery unburdens transgender boy

By | April 14th, 2016|LGBTQ+|

The night before his surgery, Rancho Bernardo’s Sam Moehlig woke up several times. “Then I’d see it’s 2 in the morning and go back to bed.”

He rose at 4:30 for breakfast, his last meal before his 2 p.m. operation in a Thousand Oaks clinic. Going under the knife, the 14-year-old said later, “was kind of

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LAPD killing of unarmed homeless man in Venice was unjustified, Police Commission says

By | April 13th, 2016|Police & Community|

After fatally shooting an unarmed homeless man in the back last year, Los Angeles police Officer Clifford Proctor explained his actions to investigators by saying he believed the man was trying to grab his partner’s gun during a struggle.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

 

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Why this cop’s conviction brought thousands of Asian Americans into New York’s streets

By | April 13th, 2016|Police & Community|

On a Saturday in February, Chivy Ngo, who owns Mister Bo Ky restaurant in Brooklyn, took a rare three-hour lunch break, closed his restaurant and taped a sign to the door.

“Will be at the rally for PETER LIANG reopen at 3 p.m.”

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Inland Empire Muslim students stereotyped, ridiculed fight back with information

By | April 13th, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When Shahriyar Mustafiz started a Muslim Student Association at his high school in Moreno Valley, another student jokingly asked if they would be teaching people how to make a bomb.

A year earlier, as a Valley View High School sophomore, some students pushed and shoved him in the locker room because of his religion around the

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A disproportionate share of blacks and Latinos lose their driver’s licenses because of unpaid tickets, study finds

By | April 11th, 2016|Police & Community|

African Americans and Latinos in California are more likely than others to lose their driver’s licenses because of unpaid tickets and then to be arrested for driving with suspended licenses, according to a report released Monday.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

 

 

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