Blog: Racism News & Discrimination Cases
February 11th, 2010
Written by Jessica Rodriguez in Education, the Great Equalizer with 0 Comments
Luis Walter Alvarez liked to ask tough questions. As an experimental scientist, Dr. Alvarez used his innate curiosity to answer some of science’s most fundamental queries and change the way people understood the world.
Alvarez’s interest in science was a family legacy. Alvarez, born June 13, 1911, in San Francisco to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, a second-generation Cuban American physician and...
February 10th, 2010
Written by Holly Beretto in Cultural Uniqueness with 0 Comments
In spite of Shakespeare’s impertinent question, “What’s in a name?” names do matter.
Take Hispanic and Latino, for example. Do we really understand these names? Do we understand what it means when we call someone Hispanic or Latino?
The term Hispanic first appeared as a descriptor on the 1980 census. Prior to that, the bureau had used terms such as “persons of Spanish surname” and “persons of...
February 9th, 2010
Written by James Patrick Anderson in Race & Politics with 0 Comments
As the vultures circle the dead and dying, they might as well be carrion in the wilderness with no chance of remembrance among the living. As news headlines fill the mind with visions of hell... 150,000 lay dead.
The city of Port au Prince might as well be half a universe away. The country of Haiti lies ravaged by a new culprit, a 7.0 earthquake. What crime could these people have committed to...
February 1st, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in Business Biases & Building Blocks with 0 Comments
Cruz Salucio gets up at 4:30 every morning and leaves the tiny trailer he shares with nine other farm workers in Immokalee, FL. The 25-year-old Guatemalan joins a crowd of tomato pickers in a vacant lot by the general store. Farmers arrive before sunrise, lumbering along in old school buses to pick up workers.
"In the harvesting season, there's plenty of work," Salucio says. "But as the crops...
January 15th, 2010
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Race & Politics with 0 Comments
Lamenting the dysfunctional state of many of our nation's public schools has been a perennial refrain for decades. However, to fix what is wrong will require courageous decisions implemented by communities across the country, despite strong resistance.
Fortunately, some public schools are producing students who demonstrate high academic achievement, and can compete not only with peers here in...
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