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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 : Six black students at Jena High School in Central Louisiana were arrested last December after a school fight in which a white student was beaten and suffered a concussion and multiple bruises. The six black students were charged with attempted murder and conspiracy. They face up to 100 years in prison without parole. The fight took place amid mounting racial tension after a black student sat under a tree in the schoolyard where only white students sat. The next day...

- On July 7, 1892, three dedicated patriot, Andres Bonifacio, Teodoro Plata and Ladislao Diwa founded the Katipunan, the secret society of patriots in a house in Azcaraga Street in Manila. The Katipunan was organized after the Spanish authorities clamped down on the La Liga Filipina, founded by Jose Rizal and only lasted for several days until it was outlawed in July 2, 1892. By August 23, 1896, when the Spanish authorities discovered the organization, it has organized an undeground netw...

Monday, July 9, 2007 : We, a group of Brooklyn NY students, were given permission by parents and our school’s administration to leave school in order to walk to our beloved friend’s wake. As a sign of solidarity we all wore the same “R.I.P.” tee-shirt featuring his picture....

Friday, July 6, 2007 : More questions are swirling around the cleanup efforts at two adjacent contaminated sites in Richmond this week. Issues range from the adequacy of testing of contaminants at UC Berkeley’s Richmond Field Station (RFS) and the possibility of radioactive contamination both at the field station and at the adjacent site at Campus Bay, owned by AstraZeneca, a Swiss agro-chemical giant....

Educators slam pro-segregation ruling Thursday, July 5, 2007 : PHILADELPHIA — The No Child Left Behind Act and the Supreme Court rejection of school desegregation programs drew harsh criticism July 3 as 9,000 teachers and other school workers opened the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly here. The four-day conference met under the slogan “Great public schools, a basic right for every child.” The NEA calls its assembly the largest democratically elected deliberative ...

Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :Philadelphia Tribune, News Analysis, Eric Mayes, Posted: Jul 04, 2007 Editor's Note: . Last week’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, one which barred school districts from using race as the only factor when assigning students to schools, has generated mixed emotions in Philadelphia — where it will probably have little impact on the student body, but could impact teachers....

Tuesday, July 3, 2007 :The most recent scandal in American academia is the firing of Dr. Norman Finkelstein by De Paul University, despite the recommendations of his colleagues and peers, students, and his publishing record, all of which would normally assure academic tenure to someone in his position. It seems therefore, that Dr....

Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : UC Berkeley and a Swiss multinational must clean up thousands of truckloads of toxic-laden soil illegally buried at the Richmond site of a planned 1,330-unit housing complex, state officials ordered Friday....

Monday, July 2, 2007 : Over the last few weeks, as I have thought hard about how the Finkelstein and Larudee tenure denials went down the way they did, I repeatedly stumble upon a troubling, but perhaps plausible, scenario. Imagine the following phone conversation between the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz, and John Simon, the Chair of DePaul's Board of Trustees:...

Saturday, June 30, 2007 :The U.S. Supreme Court struck down voluntary school desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., because they use race to assign some students to schools in an attempt to avoid racial isolation. For many Asian-American students, self-segregation is a part of their high school life. Meanwhile, Asian-American parents navigate between the choice of sending their children to the best school and ensuring that their children can adapt to a diverse society....