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As millions protest systemic racism, Californians could soon have chance to restore affirmative action
By: George Skelton ~ Los Angeles Times ~ June 11, 2020 The Black Lives Matter movement, galvanized by the police killing of George Floyd, is propelling the once volatile issue ... -
Casting Out DACA Amid Pandemic and Police Violence Will Be Utterly Inhumane
By: Zuleima Dominguez ~ Newsweek ~ June 15, 2020 As one of the 700,000 immigrant youth with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), I've felt anxious for much of the ... -
What the George Floyd protests have achieved in just two weeks
By: Poppy Noor ~ The Guardian ~ June 8, 2020 Minneapolis committed to dismantling its police, New York City vowed to reform the NYPD and statues were toppled across the ... -
George Floyd protests have created a multicultural movement that’s making history
By: Leila Miller ~ Los Angeles Times ~ June 7, 2020 Throughout his life, Alan Michnoff’s engagement with racial justice issues had been “next to none.” Although the 30-year-old North ... -
Column: After Hoover’s police, like Trump’s, assaulted peaceful protesters, he lost reelection. Will Trump?
By: Michael Hiltzik ~ Los Angeles Times ~ June 2, 2020 On Monday evening, National Guard units accompanied by other federal law enforcement detachments fired rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades and ... -
If you don’t understand the protests, what you're seeing is people pushed to the edge
By: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR, NEW YORK TIMES (OP-ED), MAY 30, 2020 What was your first reaction when you saw the video of the white cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck while ... -
They Push. They Protest. And Many Activists, Privately, Suffer as a Result.
By John Eligon ~ NY Times ~ March 26, 2018 She lay curled in bed for days, paralyzed by the stresses of a life that she felt had chosen her as much ... -
Decades before Black Lives Matter, there were the Black Panthers in Oakland
By Rob Abcarian, The L.A. Times ~ December 2, 2016 http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-black-panthers-20161202-story.html The corner of Market and 55th streets in Oakland is unremarkable in many ways. Rush hour traffic whizzes by modest homes ... -
The massive immigrant-rights protests of 2006 are still changing politics
By Mark Engler and Paul Engler, L.A. Times Op-Ed ~ March 6, 2016 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0306-engler-immigration-protests-2006-20160306-story.html Ten years ago, on March 10, 2006, more than 100,000 protesters flooded Chicago's downtown Loop. As ... -
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 a high-ranked administrator deemed insensitive ...