The Trump agenda has Native American tribes feeling under siege
Every time black dust blows through the windswept Moapa River Indian Reservation about an hour’s drive from Las Vegas, residents grow more unnerved.
This tribal community of just 225 has seen more than its share of sickness. Tribal council member Vickie Simmons watched
The Gender Pay Gap: Trying to Narrow It
LONDON — A law firm is giving female lawyers more flexible work schedules. A technology giant wants to increase the ranks of its female engineers. And a media company is recruiting greater numbers of women to mirror its client base more closely.
New rules in Britain requiring
Riverside man accused of hanging noose on fence to intimidate mixed-race neighbors
A Riverside man has been accused of hanging a noose to intimidate a mixed-race family — the first prosecution of the state anti-hate law in Inland Southern California since the Legislature added nooses to the statute nine years ago.
Levi Jared Grant Lehman, 30, pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge Feb. 16. He has been
Incidences of Campus Racial Intolerance Spark Calls for Change
Some say the current racial and political climate contributes to the problem. They have “heightened the othering of people of color,” says Dr. Marybeth Gasman, director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. “I think there are Whites who consider spaces
A Woman Said She Saw Burglars. They Were Just Black Airbnb Guests.
It was an entirely routine moment: Four people exited the home they had rented on Airbnb in Rialto, Calif., and loaded suitcases into their car.
Within minutes, several police cars had arrived and the group was being questioned as a helicopter flew overhead. A neighbor who didn’t recognize them had reported a
UC Berkeley report says political clashes ‘tore at the campus’s social fabric’
Why did some students host a series of conservative and far-right speakers at UC Berkeley in 2017? Why did the left and far-left, after ignoring similar events in the past, respond with outrage and, in some cases, violence?
“Our conclusion,” wrote the campus’s Commission on Free Speech in a report sent to students Wednesday, “is
Racist behavior on campus will be discussed at upcoming Cal Poly forum
A diversity specialist and panel discussion to address a string of recent racially-charged incidents and how the campus community can move forward will be the subject of Cal Poly’s biennial Baker Forum on Friday afternoon.
The event, called “Our Collective Journey Begins: Real and Raw, An Intimate Dialogue to Get Us on Track,”
Sanctuary state fight at local level may be more orchestrated than organic
With California and the Trump administration locked in a legal battle over immigration policies, a state Republican leader and an illegal immigration critic are quietly offering to help communities fight the state’s new “sanctuary” law.
County officials are scheduled to
STATE OF CONFLICT: How a tiny protest at the U. of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics
The first month of the fall semester had not gone as Hank M. Bounds, president of the University of Nebraska, had hoped. It was shaping up to be a tough budget year, for the school and the state, and he had hoped to press the case for how valuable the university was to the state.
Instead,
California Survey on Othering and Belonging: Views on Identity, Race and Politics
In December 2017, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley and Latino Decisions fielded a statewide public opinion poll to better understand the interaction of Californian’s intergroup and identity perceptions with their attitudes towards several policy goals, social values, and responses to messages based on a strategic narrative. This