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“Stay out of my hair!”

The Hechinger Report

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

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But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., What Can Education Leaders Do?

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report and Reveal asked the state for a list of the primary textbooks used by every public school in all 148 Mississippi districts during the 2016-17 school year. I tried to use it as an opportunity for the students, to get them to care about history and about human rights around the world.”.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

In some circles, the use of capitalization for “Deaf” and “Disabled” indicates a cultural identity rather than a medical diagnosis. In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students.

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Thousands of students cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day to go to college

The Hechinger Report

With one foot in each country, these students have the linguistic and cultural capacity to navigate both the U.S. Our entire economy, our way of life, our culture is very contingent on this very specific border relationship. Some started crossing in elementary school. and its largest trading partner. trade with Mexico exceeds $1.7

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Black athletes can teach us about more than just sports

The Hechinger Report

Last Friday, in a political rally in Alabama, Trump attempted to bully NFL players who follow Kaepernick’s lead in taking a knee during the national anthem in protest of police brutality since 2016. The next day, dozens of NFL players followed suit and flexed their cultural might in reaction to Trump’s verbal and cyber threats.