He remembered classmates in huge sombreros and fake mustaches, and dressed as Border Patrol and immigration agents. He was offended seeing Latino culture reduced to caricature during the “Seniores and Señoritas” day for graduating seniors at Anaheim’s Canyon Hills High School.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0824-seniores-senoritas-20120824,0,3156091.story
“Seniores” and “Señoritas” events held at an Anaheim high school — in which students dressed as gang members and a pregnant woman pushing a baby stroller — have been canceled after officials concluded the activities were demeaning toward Latinos and their culture.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0823-high-school-event-20120823,0,5135884.story
JERUSALEM — Seven Israeli teenagers were in custody on Monday, accused of what a police official and several witnesses described as an attempted lynching of several Palestinian youths, laying bare the undercurrent of tension in this ethnically mixed but politically divided city. A 15-year-old suspect standing outside court said, “For my part he can die,
A discrimination and retaliation lawsuit has embroiled the upper reaches of the federal government’s immigration enforcement agency, contributing to a sense of turmoil in a bureaucracy that has been suffering major labor conflicts between senior officials and employees.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/us/immigration-agency-accused-of-unfairness-to-men.html?_r=1&hp
Robert D. Putnam’s research is being used to make the case that diversity is bad—and he’s not happy about it.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/robert-putnam-says-his-research-was-twisted/30357?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
WASHINGTON — A state judge has refused to block a new Pennsylvania law that requires voters to display a current government-issued photo identification at the polls, upholding a Republican-backed measure that Democrats say may prevent tens of thousands of low-income and elderly voters from casting ballots.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-pa-voter-id-20120816,0,2346712.story
The Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica and its owner discriminated against members of a Jewish organization at a charitable event two years ago, a jury in Santa Monica determined Wednesday.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hotel-shangri-la-20120816,0,327708.story
A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday refused to grant an injunction on a new voter identification law that Democrats say could harm President Obama’s re-election chances by unfairly targeting minorities, college students and others in a key swing state.
Read more in The New York Times: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/pennsylvania-judge-upholds-voter-id-law/?hp
The University of California’s president, Mark G. Yudof, convened an advisory group to study the experiences of Jewish and Muslim students on six of the system’s campuses, and some of the resulting recommendations have now drawn the ire of students, faculty members, and alumni, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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When Miranda Pakozdi entered the Cross Assault video game tournament this year, she knew she had a slim chance of winning the $25,000 prize. But she was ready to compete, and promised fans watching online that she would train just as hard as, if not harder than, anyone else.
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