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/PRNewswire/ -- Lumina Foundation has awarded 23 new grants from a $15 million Racial Justice and Equity Fund. The fund supports national and...
Share Tweet As if the invitation from Secretary of State Antony Blinken for the U.N. to investigate the United States' role in "systemic racism" in the U.S. wasn't disturbing enough, there are more details coming out which should "alarm and shock every single American, regardless of party or political persuasion," according to Stephen Miller, the president of America First Legal (AFL). The group is filing a FOIA request to learn more about the role played by UCLA Law Professor E. Tendayi Achiume, who was selected for this investigation. Miller spoke exclusively with Townhall, which...
Nicholas Espíritu teaches Voting Rights and the Immigration Policy Clinic at UCLA School of Law. Espíritu has served as counsel or amicus counsel on numerous voting rights related cases, including Sanchez v. Modesto, Abbott v. Perez, Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council, Evenwel v. Abbott, and Coral Construction, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco. His immigrants’ rights litigation includes challenges to governmental policies discriminating against noncitizens, including the Trump Administrations’ Muslim Ban, the discriminatory expansion of the public charge rule, and Arizona’s S.B....
Editorâs note: This letter from a Utah State University student to the school administration is being republished here as a âSoapboxâ article. Dear Utah State University: You have failed your marginalized students and have set a precedent of diversity only when it is convenient. × Advertisement In October of 2020, during a speech given at USU, the founder of the Black Lives Matter Utah chapter was rushed off of campus after a death threat. In December of 2019, the head equipment manager for the football team used a racial slur and retained his job after the investigation. In A...
Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record A California law professor born in Roswell and raised in Albuquerque has been honored for outstanding scholarship by the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. Laura E. Gómez, a professor with the School of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) received the 2021 Outstanding Scholar Award in December and will be honored during a Feb. 16 virtual awards banquet. Gómez was born in Roswell in 1964. Her parents, Antonio Gómez and Eloyda Gonzales Gómez, also were born here during the 1940s. She said she has many relatives who still live...