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New Federal Data Shows How Black Students Are Getting Pushed Out Of School

By | April 25th, 2018|Education|

Black students and students with disabilities routinely receive harsher punishments at school than their peers. But the Education Department is considering eliminating civil rights guidance designed to stymie these disparities ― even as data released Tuesday illustrates the scope of the problem.

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After blackface incident, minority students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo say they don’t feel welcome

By | April 25th, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Aaliyah Ramos was walking through the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus last year when a prospective student approached her.

Ramos was the only black person, the young woman said, that she and her mother had seen that day. They asked about the

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CAIR report shows 15 percent increase in hate crimes against American Muslims nationwide

By | April 24th, 2018|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Hate crimes targeting American Muslims increased by 15 percent nationwide in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to a report released Monday, April 23 by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a trend which members of the advocacy group say is reflected in Southern California.

The report, titled “Targeted,” bears statistics about hate crimes as well

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Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds

By | April 24th, 2018|Intergroup Relations|

Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to “economic anxiety.” Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington.

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Opinion: Should I Give Up on White People?

By | April 24th, 2018|Intergroup Relations|

You deserve to be punished with several fists to your face! You’re nothing but a troublemaker! I’ve had enough of your Racist talk! You’d better watch what you say and to whom you say it! You may just end up in the hospital with several injuries or maybe on a cold

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Blackface is free speech but anti-Bush tweet is not at California university

By | April 23rd, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When a white student at California State University was caught this month wearing blackface, administrators had a clear message: it was racist, but “protected by free speech”.

Days later, when a professor tweeted that the late Barbara Bush was a “racist”, the university’s tone was different: the

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Many Latinos answer call of the Border Patrol in the age of Trump

By | April 23rd, 2018|Employment & Housing, Immigration|

Piled into a white van driving along the United States-Mexico border, the young men and one woman beheld the wall and weighed just how easily it could be conquered.

Isaac Antonio did not seem impressed.

“That’s easily climbable,” the 20-year-old declared.

Their chaperon, a Border Patrol agent, called out from behind the wheel: “Good luck, bro! I’m sure

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Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class

By | April 23rd, 2018|Employment & Housing|

OKLAHOMA CITY — The anxiety and seething anger that followed the disappearance of middle-income jobs in factory towns has helped reshape the American political map and topple longstanding policies on tariffs and immigration.

But globalization and automation aren’t the only forces responsible for the loss of those

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Racial bias in campus discipline: When will universities look in the mirror?

By | April 23rd, 2018|Education, Intergroup Relations|

A new federal analysis of data on how students are disciplined in K-12 schools found that black children were far more likely than their white peers to suffer consequences for their actions in 2013-14, and the report noted that “implicit base” may be a cause.

Such K-12 data is routinely collected and analyzed

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