By Priscella Vega ~ LA Times ~ March 10, 2018 Coast Community College District officials said Monday they are reviewing how to proceed after a professor at Golden West College in Huntington Beach was identified in a video telling a Long Beach couple to "go back to your home country." ...

The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo is a fresh and genre-defying film about the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author and countercultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta- the basis for the character Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, written by his friend and legendary journalist-provocateur, Hunter ...

By Mike DeBonis and Josh Dawsey  ~ Washington Post ~ March 14, 2018 White House officials have told key Republican leaders on Capitol Hill that President Trump is open to cutting a deal in an upcoming spending bill to protect young immigrants from deportation in exchange for border wall funding, according to four ...

By Teresa Wantanabe ~ LA Times ~ March 8, 2018 California’s public colleges and universities face a “drastic disparity” in diversity between their undergraduates, who are overwhelmingly students of color, and their predominantly white faculty and campus leaders, a new study has found. That mismatch can negatively affect student academic success and ...

By Vivian Yee and Alan Blinder ~ NY Times ~ March 14, 2018 A month ago, hundreds of teenagers ran for their lives from the hallways and classrooms of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staff had been shot to death. On Wednesday, driven by the conviction that ...

By Joel Ebert ~ Tenneseean ~ March 13,2018 The move was lauded by dozens of students who flocked to the legislature in an effort to encourage lawmakers to get behind the measure. Among the more than 150 students who traveled to Nashville was Riverdale High School junior Lizeth Luna, who said she dreams of becoming a ...

By Alex Wagner ~ The Atlantic ~ March 6, 2017 In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Is it on the verge of doing so again? It was a time of economic struggle, ...

Por Conexcion Migrante ~ 3 de Marzo 2018 Todo apunta que las demandas interpuestas contra tres leyes santuario de California es solo el primer paso de la administración del presidente Donald Trump contra todos los condados, ciudades y estados que busquen proteger a los migrantes. Pues al menos, 29 jurisdicciones recibirían una ...

By Walter Ewing ~ Immigration Impact ~ March 12, 2018 In order to effectively fight crime, law-enforcement officers must gain the trust of the communities they intend to serve. Trust encourages victims of crime, as well as potential witnesses, to come forward and help solve cases and prosecute criminals. However, ...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards ~ TIME ~ March 8, 2018 Just before 7:30 one Friday morning last March, Alejandro said goodbye to his wife Maria and his two small daughters and headed off to work. He didn’t make it far. Four blocks from his home near Bakersfield, Calif., two unmarked vehicles, a white Honda and a green Mazda ...