Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. The National Women’s History Museum documents how Truth advocated for voting rights for all and argued that gender or race should not restrict any human rights.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and oppression of people in the U.S. who are not white.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community. Penn Loh, a lecturer at Tufts University, said that in his son’s class at that time, only two of 44 children qualified for free and reduced lunch.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In contrast, numerous treasuring practices organized and maintained by local communities, such as the Merti Dusun ritual (hamlet cleansing) in Javanese society, effectively preserve cultural heritage and enhance collective capacities, ensuring the continued preservation and vitality of these cultural treasures.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Other booths plus a strategy session run by lawyers with The Heritage Foundation and Institute for Free Speech offered guidance to parents for fighting the new Biden administration Title IX regulation, which extends protection against sex discrimination to students based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Well, we are all learning.

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