ST. LOUIS — His gold-and-black coffin was topped by a baseball cap — a palpable, personal reminder of the young man who was fatally shot by a police officer only weeks ago. But the calls from the pulpit were for Michael Brown’s memory to live on in a broad movement
CLAYTON, Mo. — The march of clergy members, black and white and demanding a full investigation into police actions in St. Louis County, wound from the well-groomed and highly regarded high school, past the curious onlookers out for sushi or Starbucks, and finally to the county prosecutor’s office.
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We charted how Americans have moved between states since 1900. See how your state has changed.
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FERGUSON, Mo. — Even as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was scheduled to arrive in St. Louis on Wednesday, law enforcement officials and local leaders said they were hopeful that they had turned a corner in calming the restive community of Ferguson after 12 days of protests and unrest.
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A good colleague, Vasti Torres, wrote a piece years ago entitled “Mi Casa Is Not Always Like Your House.” In this piece she encouraged folks to use a culturally sensitive lens in the context of higher education. Most importantly, she talked about Latino students from a Latina perspective.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supposed to end racial discrimination, but people of color might have just as much difficulty today accessing the same health care, educational and employment opportunities as Whites as they did prior to the passage of the historic legislation.
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Christine Ewings learned in a phone call from a friend that her street had been closed because a young black man had been shot by police.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-mother-20140818-story.html
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For the first time ever, non-Hispanic Whites are projected to make up less than 50 percent of the U.S. K-12 public school population. The National Center for Education Statistics has estimated that minorities will comprise 50.2 percent of students in public school classrooms in the 2014-15 academic year.
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66408/
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Rialto >> The team of Rialto Unified teachers who created a controversial assignment that asked eighth-graders to argue whether or not the Holocaust occurred, after consulting excerpts from a Holocaust denial website, appears to have had inconsistent leadership and oversight, according to documents obtained by the Los Angeles News Group.
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FERGUSON, Mo. — For four nights in a row, they streamed onto West Florissant Avenue wearing camouflage, black helmets and vests with “POLICE” stamped on the back. They carried objects that doubled as warnings: assault rifles and ammunition, slender black nightsticks and gas masks.
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