At a time when the term diversity appears steadily shifting in meaning and sliding off many radars as a priority, more than 100 of the top diversity officers across the country gathered in Chicago this week for what has been described as closed-door, frank talk about the status of diversity and how to regain the
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation encouraging that future history textbooks for public schools in California include a section on the 1930s deportation of more than 1 million U.S. citizens of Mexican descent.
“With our state being the home to so many successful Mexican Americans, our children and all Californians should be aware of the injustices
With the congressional fight over Planned Parenthood dominating headlines around the country amid the threat of a government shutdown, California politicians are getting in on the action at the local level.
Some House Democrats who have had their seats targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee as ripe for the taking are playing up their defense
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan, in a speech before an audience Wednesday at the National Press Club, announced a new policy to reallocate state correctional funding dollars to raises for teachers in the nation’s most underprivileged districts.
In what were perhaps his most intentional comments to date on race, Duncan addressed the disparities in educational
When an activist evangelical group confronted students at DePauw University last week, screaming that they were “whores” and “sinners,” it didn’t take long for tensions to escalate. What happened that afternoon illustrates the challenges campuses face in balancing free speech and campus safety at a time of heightened cultural and racial tensions.
Janeya D. Cunningham, a first-year
ARLINGTON, Va. — As long as the Confederate flag continues to fly in public spaces, it signals that the sense of democracy in the United States is “hollow” and does not extend to all people.
That’s what U.S. history professor Spencer Crew argued recently at a talk titled “The Confederate Flag and the Legacy of Slavery.”
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A married lesbian couple were sitting with their kids in a Long Beach laundromat last fall when a man said, “I hope your kids don’t turn out gay.” He lunged at them with a knife and ran away.
A Latina mother and her children were outside their Boyle Heights apartment last September when a Latino man
The wounds of segregation were still raw in the 1970s. With only rare exceptions, African-American children had nowhere near the same educational opportunities as whites.
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When Rini Sampath decided to run for student body president at the University of Southern California, she said some students told her she would never win. She was a young woman and a minority, and she was running on a ticket with another woman, who was also a minority.
Their advice? Choose a white, male student as
This week, brown children across America learned a lesson: If you try to be like Steve Jobs, you could get arrested.
By now, you’ve heard about 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a boy who brought a homemade clock to his high school in Irving, Texas. School officials and police called the engineering project a “hoax bomb.” Late Tuesday