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SHARE: At a recent New York City mayoral forum on policing and community safety, candidates were asked for two things they would do as mayor to ensure that police who kill, brutalize or harass people are fired. Maya Wiley, the first to answer, began as if reading off her own resume. “As someone who has been a civil rights lawyer my whole career, and racial justice advocate, and has worked on a criminal justice initiative in post-apartheid South Africa and chaired the New York City Civilian Co...

CTY director awarded for her contributions to public education Center for Talented Youth executive director Virginia Roach is the winner of this years Medalist Award from the New York Academy of Public Education By Katy Bowman / Published April 27, 2021 Virginia Roach, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, is this years recipient of the New York Academy of Public Educations Medalist Award. Established in 1935, it is the acad...

February 19, 2021 UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News. But it was the same dog whistle that the Trump administration learned to blow so well, said Otto Santa Ana. He’s a recently retired UCLA professor whose influential 2002 book “Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse” tracked the rise of inflammatory language ...