This was written by D’Artagnan Scorza, the Director of the Social Justice Learning Institute. African American students at UC San Diego were shocked and demoralized by a “Compton Cookout” that took place this past Monday February 15. According to the Facebook invitation, students from several fraternities organized this party in honor of Black History Month, [...]
By Margaret M. Russell, Professor of Law at Santa Clara Law, and Equal Justice Society board member Like many in the Bay Area, I can hardly wait for Inauguration Day. Weeks before the election, I felt impelled to book my flight to DC because this would be a joyous moment I could not miss. An [...]
This is cross-posted with permission from the author, Richard M. Wright, who blogs on fem-men-ist.blogspot.com: The news about how Oscar Grant was killed by the police weighed heavily on me, and the video footage looped in my head. after wheeling my records home from my gig, i wash my face and call a taxi. i [...]