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.
At a time when propaganda almost totally obscures history, Dr Campbell provides an overview of China’s road to – socialism?
This week readers discuss lead-poisoned water in Newark and the the imperialist attack on Syria. We share your letters for “
An exploration of how to simultaneously act on and under radars of all kinds.
This novel puts the “too often secreted issues of intraracial classism and colorism” up front and center, along with Black cop contradictions and color-coded witnesses.
How can a union tolerate three or four different “tiers” of workers, with different pay scales and rights, and then call for “solidarity”?
