The students of Beethoven Elementary School in Mar Vista faced an arch of purple balloons as they rallied against bullying. The event, held Thursday by the Los Angeles Unified School District, was part of GLAAD’s Spirit Day, an annual event to show lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students that they have support from their schools and communities.
GLAAD puts
Many of California’s Hmong immigrants arrived as refugees from war and genocide and have struggled, remaining one of the poorest ethnic groups in the state. By contrast, Taiwanese immigrants typically came to California with more money and education, and they now rank among the state’s most affluent groups.
About 70% of California’s Indian Americans older than
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti faced throngs of hostile protesters at a community meeting Monday night as chaos descended on a gathering that had been intended as a forum for him to improve his fraught relationship with the black communities of South L.A.
The meeting at Holman United Methodist Church, attended by several hundred, was quickly
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have required state education officials to develop a model ethnic studies program for California’s public schools.
The measure would have directed the California Department of Education to form an advisory panel to develop the curriculum, which would then be approved by the state Board of Education and
There were cheers Sunday when Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation making California the first state in the nation to pass a law prohibiting public schools from using the term “Redskin” as a team name or mascot.
But the ban has been greeted more negatively in the small towns whose teams bear the name.
hate crime investigation has been launched into a series of offensive messages found scrawled early Saturday onto cars on the UC Davis campus.
UC Davis police found eight cars with their tires slashed and five others etched with religious slurs in a campus parking lot. A man was seen running through an apartment complex around the
On one of the first days of class at Dos Puentes Elementary School in Upper Manhattan last month, a new student named Michelle peered up through pale blue glasses and took a deep breath.
“Can I drink water?” Michelle, 6, said.
“Diga en Español,”
A few weeks ago, I sat in a movie theater and grinned. Anne Hathaway was in ‘‘The Intern,’’ perched on a hotel bed in a hotel robe, eating from a can of overpriced nuts, having tea and freaking out. What would happen if she divorced her sweet, selfless stay-at-home dad
Educational publisher McGraw-Hill said it will revise and reprint a geography textbook that refers to African slaves in America as “immigrants” and “workers,” after a complaint by the mother of a Texas high school freshman, reports KTRK-TV.
Roni Dean-Burren of Pearland, Texas, posted on Facebook a picture of a section of the textbook “World Geography” that her son,
California is about to tackle head on the charged issue of racial bias in law enforcement.
Gov. Jerry Brown this weekend signed legislation mandating that California law enforcement agencies collect — and make public — data on the racial makeup of all those encountered by police.
For civil rights activists, Brown’s action was a big step toward protecting