Famous Desegregation Case, Mendez v Westminster, Celebrates 70 Years This Weeks
*Before Brown v Board of Education, the case that history has designated as the standard for public school desegregation, there was Mendez v. Westminster, argued before the Supreme Court seven […]
Student Debt Makes College More Expensive for Women
*Latinas, on average, have paid only 3 percent of their student debt, they carry an average of $21,026, and they earn 54 cents for every dollar earned by a white […]
Young Latino Students Don’t See Themselves in Books
*Latinos are now almost one-fourth of U.S. public school enrollment. Yet, Latino kids rarely see themselves in books written for young readers. VL By Motoko Rich, The New York Times […]
Poor, minorities carry the burden of frack waste in South Texas
*Fracking industry representatives say the study is flawed. The concern is that fracking wastewater will contaminate groundwater. And there are 217,000 minorities living within three miles of a fracking waste […]