All posts tagged "race ethnicity and gender"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  CSAP: From Shut Up to Shut Down

  “Shut the f**k up, bitch!” That one ill-mannered and vulgar sentence has propelled the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) from a...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Pubs and Videos for February 2002

  Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...

• Opinion

  “Character” Purists, Cleanse Thyselves

  Americans hate adolescents and never hesitate to let them know it. How else do we explain March’s ugly rush to typecast all...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Identity and Prejudice

  BY JAMES DOLLISON Growing up biracial was not the easiest thing to do, yet I prevailed. I learned how to accept myself...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Identity and Prejudice

  BY ERIC LOUIE My girlfriend and I circled the food vendors at a street fair in Oakland’s Chinatown, waiting like vultures for...

• News

  Studies Slam Excessive Minority Lock-Ups, But Solutions Escape

  A flurry of new reports charges that minority youth get unequal treatment in the criminal justice system – yet costly efforts over...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Red, White, and Blue on Eastern Parkway

  By Angela Randolph Growing up, I always wanted to go to the Caribbean Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.  I live...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Just Another Asian Girl?

  By Ju Yon Kim When I was seven years old I went to the circus with my family and friends. We had...

• News

  Case Could Harm U.S. Kids Abducted to Foreign Lands

  The Elian Gonzalez child custody case may thrill foes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, but it may jeopardize the return of more...

• News

  The Case of the 6-Year-Old ‘Refugee’

  By Amy Bracken The international hot potato over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez of Cuba landed in the lap of a family court judge...