For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death.
The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones like Birmingham, Ala. — live nearly as long as their middle-class neighbors or have seen
The college campus, long a home to spirited protests and expressions of provocative opinions, can also be home to safe spaces, trigger warnings, news media restrictions and rules about what can be written in chalk on the sidewalks.
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Some of America’s most racially integrated neighborhoods and cities are on a path to becoming segregated all over again. In Los Angeles this means neighborhoods where Latinos and Asians now live alongside black or white neighbors may have few to no whites or blacks in 10 to 20 years.
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TOPEKA, Kan. — Washington is locked in partisan warfare over control of the Supreme Court. But it is hardly the only place. Look at the states, where political attacks on judicial decisions are common and well-financed attack ads are starting to jar the once-sleepy elections for State Supreme Court seats.
Nowhere is the battle more fiery
Black students are four times as likely to be suspended from charter schoolsas white students, according to a new analysis of federal education data. And students with disabilities, the study found, are suspended two to three times the rate of nondisabled students in charter schools.
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A coalition of more than 80 advocacy groups, including Campus Pride and SoulForce, are demanding that the NCAA divest from all religious institutions who have requested a Title IX exemption pertaining to religious rights. The exemption allows schools to waive portions of Title IX that might apply to students, faculty and staff who are transgender
The last great LGBT rights battle was fought over marriage. The next one might be over bathrooms, whether activists like it or not.
Across the country, LGBT advocates and conservatives are battling over transgender nondiscrimination laws that have again and again turned into single-issue showdowns over access to bathrooms and locker rooms.
MERIDEN, Conn. >> In response to a surge in reports of anti-Muslim bullying — students being called terrorists, having their head scarves ripped off and facing bias even from teachers — schools are expanding on efforts deployed in the past to help protect gays, racial minorities and other marginalized groups.
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In the coverage of the 2016 election cycle, you’ll hear this time and again: Latinos — immigrants and their families — are playing an important role in electing the next U.S. president. They are the largest minority group in the nation, and they are poised to make a major impact on American democracy.
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Los Angeles County officials are investigating an apparent surge in hate crimes targeting Muslims late last year.
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