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.
Long before the Civil War, Black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery.
MLK was dreaming of a socialist future long before the tumultuous decade of the Sixties.
The idea that Israel cannot be targeted or criticized as a “racist endeavor” is an absurd suggestion.
American troops in Iraq are at increasing risk every day the US stays in that sovereign nation.
What has happened in the year since Juan Guaidó declared himself president of Venezuela?
