The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

data cited in the lawsuit, between 2012 and 2017, only about half of requests for sports team from schools that had more than 90 percent black and Latino students were approved, whereas about three-quarters of such requests were approved for schools whose student bodies were 10 percent or less black and Latino students. The P.S.A.L.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I’m president at Minerva University , established in 2012 and one of the few institutions of higher education that, in recent memory, has asked the question, “What would we build if we could build it from scratch?”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2012, the Human Rights Campaign reported that 47 percent of LGBT youth say they do not “fit in” in their communities. Such sincere gestures showed me that even though I’m being beaten down from inside and out, I am still valued and loved. Jaiden Blancaflor, 17.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. Following years of cross-coalitional planning, residents shut down the port and the city and took to the streets to demand recognition.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 10, 2024

Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which ran from 2001 to 2003, was tasked with investigating the human rights abuses committed in the country during its armed conflict with Sendero Luminoso. One of those data sets is from a 2012 publication by Benjamin J. Appel and Cyanne E. post-conflict justice institutions).

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2012, the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children led a training in gastronomy and food service ahead of opening the first deaf restaurant in Gaza. They also resist corporate and government efforts to use technologies designed for accessibility to wage war, such as through the development of weaponized prosthetics.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I sort of fell into leadership roles not just at APSA but also at Wagner College, where I worked between 2012 and 2023 (these days I teach at Clark University). For example, I recently published a piece in the Journal of Human Rights interrogating current US policy on asylum for LGBTQ+ folks.

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