Women’s History Month forces us to look to our pasts in relation to our current spaces in society and see the possibilities for our future. However, when there are a good many of us on the periphery of histories celebrated and remembered, it becomes necessary to actively seek out and recapture our pasts. For...
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The past several weeks I’ve had to sift through conservative (racist, homophobic, sexist, ableist, classist) rhetoric and some outright lies all while trying to keep myself updated with the attacks on all fronts to our civil liberties. Bills like H.R. 1 (attempting to massively defund Planned Parenthood) to H.R. 3, Arizona’s “omnibus” immigration bill...
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President Obama fully addressed the issues behind the new educational reform plan a few weeks ago. In his speech Obama tackled some of the most important and controversial issues of the new educational plan.
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Pursued and punished for words that were taken out of context. A video clip edited to persuade the public that former department of agriculture official, Shirley Sherrod, is a cold cut racist. But what the clip really showed was a perfect example of poor journalism.
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Education Reform has always been a tricky thing for me. As an Educational Studies Minor, I usually sit in class with my head cocked to the side, sitting on the fence about these issues. For me the big issue was always, how do we measure educational success?
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A recent blog entry on chopsentials raised some very valid points on the job of the media in particular with the portrayal of diverse characters in Hollywood movies. It should come as no surprise that a majority of the characters in Hollywood productions are white.
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In Afghanistan under the Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001 girls were banned from going to school. But though it’s been nearly a decade later, the effects still seem to be rippling.
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Lorenzana’s story is a repulsive textbook example of discrimination in a male-dominated environment, but it also stands as a ghastly illustration of girl-on-girl prejudice.
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As Arizona Governor Jan Brewer met with President Barak Obama at the White House today, DC area residents came out in force to denounce Arizona’s new law—SB 1070—and call for an overhaul of the immigration system that would create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
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A school in Arizona has refueled the fire that decades of race relations had attempted to paint over. The school mural meant to promote better health and green energy use, has only further prolonged the truly despicable point of view of a select few who still-despite the current state of the union and over...
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