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San Francisco Human Rights Commission Offers Tribute to Pioneer Community and Civil Rights Activist Dr. Espanola Jackson
Dr. Espanola Jackson was one of the original recipients of the HRC’s “HERO” Legacy Awards

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:20+00:00 January 26th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

(San Francisco, CA, Jan. 25, 2016) – The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is offering its heart-felt condolences to the family, friends, and all who knew her, on the passing of Dr. Espanola Jackson. Known as “Mother Jackson” for decades, Dr. Jackson championed the cause for human and civil rights for her beloved Bayview Hunters Point

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Massachusetts Chief’s Tack in Drug War: Steer Addicts to Rehab, Not Jail

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:20+00:00 January 25th, 2016|Police & Community|

CANTON, Ohio — Leonard Campanello, the police chief of Gloucester, Mass., took the microphone here in mid-December and opened with his usual warm-up line: I’m from Gloucester, he said in his heavy Boston accent. “That’s spelled ‘G-l-o-s-t-a-h.’”

A casually profane man with a philosophical bent, Chief

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‘Gifted’ Black Kids Not as Likely to Get Placed in Talented Programs

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:20+00:00 January 25th, 2016|Education, Uncategorized|

High-achieving, Black, elementary school students are much less likely than their White peers to receive assignments to gifted and talented programs in math and reading, according to a new study.

However, the disparities in rates of placement essentially disappear among Black students who have Black teachers.

These are among the findings published last week in AERA Open, a

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The Latino vote is bigger and better educated than ever before, a new report finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:20+00:00 January 20th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

The Latino electorate is bigger and better educated than ever before, according to a new report by Pew Research Center.

It’s also young. Adults age 18-35 make up nearly half of the record 27.3 million Latinos eligible to vote in this year’s presidential election, the report found.

But although the number of Latinos eligible to vote is surging — 40% higher

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Dearth of Faculty Diversity Leaves King Award Recipient ‘Neither Thrilled Nor Honored’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:20+00:00 January 20th, 2016|Education|

Naomi Zack is one of just six people scheduled to receive a University of Oregon award on Wednesday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

But the philosophy professor expressed mixed feelings about what the award means at a university where so few of her colleagues are minorities.

Ms. Zack, who describes herself as multiracial, said there

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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Obama Immigration Actions

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:20+00:00 January 19th, 2016|Immigration|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it would consider a legal challenge to President Obama’s overhaul of the nation’s immigration rules. The court, which has twice rejected challenges to Mr. Obama’s health care

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Oscars 2016: It’s time for Hollywood to stop defining great drama as white men battling adversity

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:20+00:00 January 15th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

The winner of the 2016 Oscar in practically every category is … white men facing adversity.

Just two years after the much-touted breakthrough of “12 Years a Slave,” the best picture nominees announced Thursday, with a few notable exceptions, follow a dishearteningly repetitive story line of white men triumphing over enormous odds: The Hollywood blacklist (“Trumbo”),

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At a Montana restaurant, talk about illegal immigration spills a revelation

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 January 15th, 2016|Immigration, Intergroup Relations|

Yeni Mora floated in from the kitchen with a smile and set two carafes of freshly brewed coffee on a table seating 20 of her most devoted patrons.

Her Mexican restaurant in this town of 4,000 is a place where locals like to say they compete to “try to tell the biggest lie,” and where what

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How to Bridge That Stubborn Pay Gap

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 January 15th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

When the comedian Ricky Gervais joked that he was paid the same to host the Golden Globes as the actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — combined — his barbed humor most likely resonated in many workplaces.

More than a

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‘White privilege’ just made an appearance in the presidential race. It’s about time.

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:21+00:00 January 13th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

In the final stretch of Fusion’s Iowa Brown and Black Forum held at Drake University on Monday night, a Drake junior stood and posed a question to Democratic presidential primary front-runner Hillary Clinton. It wasn’t long, but boy did it produce quite an answer.

“Secretary Clinton, can you tell us what the term ‘white privilege’ means

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