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Why fewer Mexicans are leaving their homeland for the U.S.
By Nigel Duara and Cindy, L.A. Times ~ November 20, 2015 To its southern neighbor, the United States once represented hope, safety and prosperity. But with the ... -
Paris Victim Nohemi Gonzalez Was Pursuing Her Dreams in Design
By DAN BILEFSKY | NOV. 19, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/world/europe/paris-terror-attacks-nohemi-gonzalez-cal-state-long-beach.html?_r=1 PARIS — For Nohemi Gonzalez, a bubbly and determined first-generation Mexican-American from California, studying industrial design in ... -
Claremont McKenna College students embrace a lesson in activism
By Teresa Watanabe and Larry Gordon, L.A. Times ~ November 14, 2015 Student leaders at Claremont McKenna College on Friday savored their victory at the departure of ... -
100,000 in Tucson embrace Mexican approach to death with All Souls Procession
By Nigel Duara, L.A. Times ~ November 12, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-all-souls-tucson-20151111-story.html We are forever in the midst of death, and yet we try to believe it ... -
Microaggression is the new face of bias on campus
By Teresa Watanabe and Jason Song, L.A. Times ~ November 12, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-college-microaggression-20151112-story.html USC junior Vanessa Diaz was raised in Dallas. But at a party two years ago, ... -
Gov. Brown's Veto of Ethnic-Studies Bill Derails 'Cross-Racial Understanding'
Education Week, Vol. 35, Issue 12, Page 24 ~ November 11, 2015 http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/11/11/gov-browns-veto-of-ethnic-studies-bill-derails.html To the Editor: Gov. Jerry Brown of California failed that state's students ... -
SNL must dump Trump
By Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D., The Hill ~ November 3, 2015 As the leading Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump is neither a joke nor a clown. He ... -
Longtime L.A. civil rights leaders dismayed by in-your-face tactics of new crop of activists
By Angel Jennings, L.A. Times ~ November 1, 2015 Long before Black Lives Matter made a mark in Los Angeles, there were the Rev. Cecil ... -
Long Beach Ethnic Studies Program Conference 2015 information and registration
HOSTED BY: LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE CSULB ETHNIC STUDIES DEPARTMENTS Saturday, October 31, 2015 ~ 9am-4pm (See program below) The Long Beach ... -
Polarization on immigration rising
By David Lauter, L.A. Times ~ October 11, 2015 American views on immigration have grown more polarized, with Republicans taking harder-line positions as Democrats and ...
