Race and Education

Passing Down Societal Values That Benefit Our Teens & Future Generations

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Alonzo Weston

Societal values, defined as beliefs, qualities, and traditions of a specific culture. They can be either appropriate or inappropriate values, beliefs, and behaviors, that families hand down through generations. They can be political, religious, social, or family issues.


The core belief is that the Puritan ethics of our founding fathers created our societal values, such as a belief in hard work, faith, and responsibility.


But in recent years, societal values are not only defined by those standards but by those of the media and the counterculture.

Saving Endangered Languages From Cultural Assimilation

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D. A. Barber

On April 16, 2012, Colorado Governor, John Hickenlooper signed a law that allowing the teaching of Native American language and culture in public schools. It is part of a larger global effort toward saving Native American and other languages, which have traditionally been lost through cultural assimilation. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a language vanishes every 14 days worldwide and, “if nothing is done, half of the 6000 plus languages spoken today will disappear by the end of this century.”

Blacks & Latinos Collaborate For Civil Rights, Economic Justice

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Manny Otiko

Traditionally, African Americans and Latinos worked and lived alongside each other in urban areas, and despite some tensions in the past, those old beefs have given way to more political unions. Nowadays, you will likely see a Civil Rights leader such as Rev. Al Sharpton, marching in an immigrants' rights demonstration, as well as protesting police brutality. And in the Deep South, black leaders collaborate with Latino activists to protest harsh immigration laws.

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