After blackface incident, minority students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo say they don’t feel welcome
Aaliyah Ramos was walking through the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus last year when a prospective student approached her.
Ramos was the only black person, the young woman said, that she and her mother had seen that day. They asked about the
CAIR report shows 15 percent increase in hate crimes against American Muslims nationwide
Hate crimes targeting American Muslims increased by 15 percent nationwide in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to a report released Monday, April 23 by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a trend which members of the advocacy group say is reflected in Southern California.
The report, titled “Targeted,” bears statistics about hate crimes as well
Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds
Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to “economic anxiety.” Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington.
Opinion: Should I Give Up on White People?
You deserve to be punished with several fists to your face! You’re nothing but a troublemaker! I’ve had enough of your Racist talk! You’d better watch what you say and to whom you say it! You may just end up in the hospital with several injuries or maybe on a cold
Blackface is free speech but anti-Bush tweet is not at California university
When a white student at California State University was caught this month wearing blackface, administrators had a clear message: it was racist, but “protected by free speech”.
Days later, when a professor tweeted that the late Barbara Bush was a “racist”, the university’s tone was different: the
Racial bias in campus discipline: When will universities look in the mirror?
A new federal analysis of data on how students are disciplined in K-12 schools found that black children were far more likely than their white peers to suffer consequences for their actions in 2013-14, and the report noted that “implicit base” may be a cause.
Such K-12 data is routinely collected and analyzed
Study: Violent Behaviors, Weapon Carrying Down Among Black Youth
Violent behaviors and weapon carrying have decreased among African-American adolescents, but homicide rates continue to rise, according to a new report from Ball State University.
“Violent Behaviors, Weapon Carrying, and Firearm Homicide Trends in African American Adolescents, 2001–2015” is the first study to assess violent behaviors in African-American youth over an extended period, the university said.
“In
Men arrested at Starbucks say they feared for their lives
Rashon Nelson initially brushed it off when the Starbucks manager told him he couldn’t use the restroom because he wasn’t a paying customer.
He thought nothing of it when he and his business partner, Donte Robinson, were approached at their table and were
ICE enforcement ends in death of farmworkers, leaving anger and questions
Celestino Hilario Garcia, his eyes bloodshot and his voice raw, struggled to explain that his brother’s and sister-in-law’s deaths were not his fault.
A month ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had trained their sights on Santos Hilario Garcia. In the early morning darkness, they followed in two black Jeeps as he and his wife, Marcelina
Racist fliers spark outrage at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Soon after Neal MacDougall arrived on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus Tuesday, the professor noticed university police standing outside a restroom near his office. A racial slur against African Americans had been scrawled in red marker on a stall wall.
Later,