Powerful interests don’t want students to “interrogate the systems of power and privilege that are at stake” in today’s struggles, said Dr Gilda Ochoa, a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at Pomona College and supporter of legislation requiring all students in California’s public university system to pass an ethnic studies course before graduation. The bill was put on hold in the face of fierce opposition. Seventy-five percent of the state’s K1-12 students are non-whites, but few students or teachers “have learned this crucial history,” said Ochoa.
Could it be that electability, as applied to Biden, is some form of racial dog whistle?
Will a new wave of activism finally produce a real mass movement against “boundless” militarism?
Although the moms were evicted, their example inspired ground-breaking housing legislation for Oakland, California.
Mississippi’s ability to sabotage Black public higher education is enhanced by the state’s power to choose compliant Negroes as administrators.
Black Oppression is Environmental Injustice
