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30 Dreamers will study abroad in Mexico and return legally with DACA protection
http://www.univision.com/noticias/daca/estudiantes-indocumentados-regresan-a-sus-paises-a-buscar-sus-raices Los Angeles, December 14 (EFE-USA) -- Willing to risk their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration protection, 30 young undocumented students will travel to their country of origin ... -
Occidental College protesters to end sit-in, vow to keep fighting bias
By Teresa Watanabe, L.A. Times ~ November 21, 2015 Student protesters at Occidental College announced they will end their weeklong sit-in by Saturday, vowing to continue their fight against racial bias ... -
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 effects of the Great Recession ... -
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 ... -
Campus microaggression can leave deep wounds
By Sandy Banks, L.A. Times ~ November 14, 2015 When I attended college in the '70s, microaggression wasn't a thing. Back then at Ohio State, we were always protesting something ... -
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 doesn't exist. We put our ... -
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, she was asked if she ... -
Supreme Court to rule if Obama is enforcing deportation laws or changing them
David G. Savage and Timothy M. Phelps, L.A. Times ~ November 12, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-immigration-legal-analysis-20151111-story.html When President Obama unveiled his plan to help as many as 5 million immigrants “come out of the shadows,” the ... -
A poor student, Anthony Rendon aims to focus on education
By George Skelton, L.A. Times Capitol Journal ~ November 2, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-sac-cap-anthony-rendon-20151102-column.html Your kid's doing cruddy in school? Don't fret. He could rise to the top of his field and ... -
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 "Chip" Murray, Najee Ali, Earl ...
