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Rodriguez: Affirming a Macehual or Gente de Maiz Identity

A couple years ago, someone from California wrote me to tell me that: “Mexicans are taking over Chicano Studies.” Apparently, the person did not know I was born in Mexico. And they knew less about what this topic triggers within me. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, I did become part of the Chicano […]

June 5, 2017

Students

Campus LGBTQ Organizations Hit Their Stride

Faculty and staff LGBTQ caucuses, or standing committees as they are sometimes known, have been instrumental in encouraging college administrations to create more inclusive campus environments.

June 5, 2017

Students

Barbara Smith Conrad’s Voice Would Not Be Silenced

A series of unexpected events eventually earned Barbara Smith Conrad a place in history with Marian Anderson and other women who became opera legends.

June 4, 2017

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63 Years after Brown, Segregated Schools Fight Takes Interesting Turn

Brown vs Board of Education removed the barrier of denying people of color their right to an education, but 63 years later the fight to ensure that students attend a “good school” continues.

June 1, 2017

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NCORE Kicks Off with Call to Activism

The proliferation of racist incidents on college campuses, as well as the spate of police shootings of unarmed Black men and efforts by some states to engage in voter suppression were cited as reasons why NCORE still needs to exist.

May 31, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Bias Suit Against Va. Union May Proceed

A White former assistant professor can seek damages from Virginia Union University for alleged discrimination in its decision not to renew her contract but not for a reprimand she received, a federal judge ruled.

May 30, 2017

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Lawsuit Alleges Professor Failed Student for Being Muslim

CRANFORD, N.J. — A student is suing a New Jersey college, claiming her professor gave her an F in a course because she is Muslim. Sahna ElBanna alleged in the lawsuit that she endured a spring 2016 semester of Union County College professor Toby Grodner making derogatory comments that all Muslims were terrorists, but ElBanna […]

May 25, 2017

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LGBTQ Group at Fordham Says No to Chick-fil-A

Fordham University — one of America’s oldest Jesuit institutions — has rejected a proposal to build a Chick-fil-A on its campus in protest of comments made by Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy about same-sex marriage.

May 18, 2017

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Some Notre Dame Students Plan to Walk Out During Pence Speech

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A University of Notre Dame student says he and some others plan to protest Vice President Mike Pence’s Sunday commencement address at the school by walking out on the speech. Protest organizer Bryan Ricketts tells the South Bend Tribune he expects 50 to 100 fellow graduating students to silently leave just […]

May 18, 2017

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Rodriguez: Diaz Epitomizes Education and Responsibility

How time flies. Watching Cynthia Diaz at this year’s Centro Guerrero convocation at the University of Arizona brought back memories of when I first saw her.

May 12, 2017

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Civil Rights Should be Part of UNC’s Mission, Speakers Say

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A campus that protects a statue honoring White supremacy in the Civil War should balance that support by continuing to train law students who will fight social injustice, the head of the school’s Center for Civil Rights told a panel Thursday. Ted Shaw, director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights, […]

May 11, 2017

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Eight Steps to Establish Support Systems for Undocumented Students

This current uncertainty of protections afforded under the DACA program underscores the need for university staff, administrators and faculty to create infrastructures to support their undocumented students.

May 8, 2017