March 25th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 31 Comments
Editor’s Note: A federal district judge began hearing a class-action challenge to NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy which yielded more stops of young black males in 2011 than their total black population in the city. The lawyers are arguing that the policy unfairly targets minorities.
NEW YORK (AP) - Devin Almonor, the teenage son of a former police officer, said he was thrown against an unmarked car...
March 25th, 2013
Written by Cristina Silva - Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 6 Comments
PHOENIX (AP) - A proposed overhaul of Arizona's early voting laws has been blasted by Latino youth who say the Republican-backed effort would suppress minority turnout just as more Hispanics are registering to vote.
Students on spring break hosted a rally at the Arizona Legislature on Thursday in opposition to two measures that would limit who gets to vote early and how mail ballots are returned...
March 11th, 2013
Written by Margery A. Beck - Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 59 Comments
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man who was kicked out of the University of Nebraska's law school just months before he was set to graduate is suing the school and others, saying he was discriminated against because of his Arabic heritage and Muslim beliefs.
Mohammad Al-Turk filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in Nebraska's federal court, naming the University of Nebraska College of Law, several law school...
March 11th, 2013
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in National Collegiate Dialogue with 23 Comments
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
In this segment, Gary R. Howard, who has 35 years of experience working with issues of...
March 4th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 34 Comments
Susan Von Tobel is a Marriage and Family therapist with a Master’s of Science in Education. Motivated by her love of children and the desire to help them understand diversity, she has authored three children’s books: Mei Ling’s Forever Mommy, which explores cultural diversity; Timmy’s Journey, which looks at family diversity; and Mei-Mei's New Home, which examines diversity through abandonment...
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