LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — A California State University Long Beach professor is being called a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi for preaching white rights.
Read more: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/11/05/csulb-professor-under-fire-for-white-supremacist-beliefs/
In the nearly two decades since Californians voted to bar undocumented immigrants from utilizing public schools and hospitals, the state’s electorate has become increasingly tolerant toward people who are in the country illegally, although it remains tough on border security and enforcement, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows.
Read more in the Los Angeles
Nearly 50 years after the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was enacted, women continue to earn less than men do throughout their careers, and the gap is seen as soon as one year out of college, a new study has found.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Male-Female-Pay-Gap-Persists/135270/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
A decade ago, Charlie Beck watched as William J. Bratton arrived in Los Angeles and began rebuilding a department deeply tarnished by the Rodney King beating, riots and corruption scandals. Bratton made many changes as chief, but Beck was particularly taken by his aggressive effort to rebuild the LAPD’s broken relationship with the African American
There is a brutal constancy to the workweeks of these two women: 72-hour weeks piled one atop another.
In Corona, Queens, Celina Alvarez chops chayote and avocados and chickens in a dank restaurant basement. And a few blocks away, Rocio Loyola makes juice drinks.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/nyregion/for-two-women-in-queens-a-sick-day-means-youre-fired.html?ref=nyregion
KOUNTZE, Tex. — In a barrage of recent e-mails, telephone calls and letters to his office, Kevin Weldon has been called some of the worst things a Christian man in this predominantly Christian town can be called: un-Christian, and even anti-Christian.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/us/in-texas-a-legal-battle-over-biblical-banners.html
WHEN Ayinde Alleyne arrived at the Trinity School, an elite independent school on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, he was eager to make new friends. A brainy 14-year-old, he was the son of immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago, a teacher and an auto-body repairman, in the South Bronx. He was soon overwhelmed by the
KOUNTZE, Tex. — A judge on Thursday gave a group of cheerleaders here a temporary victory in their fight to display Bible verses on banners at public school football games, allowing them to continue to use the signs for the rest of the season.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/court-says-texas-cheerleaders-can-use-bible-verses.html?src=recg
More than half of the nation’s Latinos are in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a survey released on Thursday, dispelling a long-standing notion that their religious beliefs offered a safe path to Republicans looking to stake a claim in the community through shared social values….
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/gay-marriage-support-grows-among-latinos-survey-finds.html?hp&_r=0
If you’re in the area, you may want to check out this event in Riverside on Saturday, Oct. 20.
