teenager who was born female and uses the boys’ locker room at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego has triggered a dispute over a state law that seeks to accommodate transgender students.
A Poway Unified School District board meeting was packed Tuesday night with people raising questions about student rights.
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Scott N. Brooks, draped in a dapper shawl-collar sweater, looked out on the auditorium of mostly white students in puffy coats and sweats as they silently squirmed at his question. Why, he had asked, does Maria Sharapova, a white Russian tennis player, earn nearly twice as much in endorsements as
High school ethnic studies courses focusing on how race and culture can impact life and identity can sometimes improve attendance and academic performance of students who are at risk of dropping out.
That’s the finding of a recent study by Stanford University researchers who examined the effects of ethnic studies courses at San Francisco public high
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, the leading scholar of the first half of the 20th century, defined the urgency of black social responsibility in his famous essay “The Talented Tenth” — 10 being the percentage of the African-American demographic needed to lead the race into an integrated, equal America. In
Punxsutawney Phil must have seen his shadow last year at the Oscars and decided institutional racism was going to be around for another year. For the second year in a row no people of color were nominated for the top honors in America’s entertainment industry. In a country that is 37 percent people of color,
hen Mi Gente, a group that represents Latino students at Duke University, announced that it would boycott a spring recruiting weekend for Latinos because its members were tired of simply being “poster children for brochures,” black and Asian-American student groups took to social media to pledge their support.
Meanwhile, they were busy with their own demands.
(San Francisco, CA, Jan. 25, 2016) – The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is offering its heart-felt condolences to the family, friends, and all who knew her, on the passing of Dr. Espanola Jackson. Known as “Mother Jackson” for decades, Dr. Jackson championed the cause for human and civil rights for her beloved Bayview Hunters Point
The Latino electorate is bigger and better educated than ever before, according to a new report by Pew Research Center.
It’s also young. Adults age 18-35 make up nearly half of the record 27.3 million Latinos eligible to vote in this year’s presidential election, the report found.
But although the number of Latinos eligible to vote is surging — 40% higher
The winner of the 2016 Oscar in practically every category is … white men facing adversity.
Just two years after the much-touted breakthrough of “12 Years a Slave,” the best picture nominees announced Thursday, with a few notable exceptions, follow a dishearteningly repetitive story line of white men triumphing over enormous odds: The Hollywood blacklist (“Trumbo”),