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Un estudiante nativo americano se le negó el diploma de bachillerato por llevar una pluma tribal.
By Arturo Garcia A high school graduate in Alabama is being denied her diploma after being fined $1,000 for wearing a feather reflecting her Native American heritage. “I don’t think it’s fair at all,” 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer told WPMI-TV. “I feel like its discrimination.” Ramer, a member of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians, wore the feather…
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La policía se retira a medida que las protestas se extienden por Turquía.
By TIM ARANGO ISTANBUL — Violent protests against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan engulfed Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, on Saturday and spread to other cities, including the capital, Ankara, as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in a second day of civil unrest and faced the tear gas and water…
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Las protestas en Turquía siguen intensificándose: más de 1.700 detenidos.
235 Separate Rallies Reported Nationwide by Jason Ditz Protests continue to grow in Turkey, with a third day of rallies seeing tens of thousands of people attending at least 90 separate rallies in the nation’s four largest cities, and 235 rallies nationwide. Security forces are responding with violent crackdowns. By the end of Sunday there are more…
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Un joven negro de 14 años que llevaba un cachorro fue derribado y estrangulado por la policía por lanzarles una "mirada deshumanizante".“
By Steven Hsieh Grown police officers allege that the unarmed teen looked at them funny. New cell phone footage shows Miami-Dade Police officers aggressively pinning an unarmed teen to the ground while choking him. His alleged crime: giving the officers “dehumanizing stares” and “clenching his fists.” Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillan says he was feeding his puppy and…
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Crítica: “El gran Gatsby” (Película de 2013)
Introduction: Classic Literature Doesn’t Always Make a Classic Film Whenever a classic work of fiction is adapted for the silver screen, there is both a feeling of excitement and dread. Sometimes an essential work of literature like Les Misérables becomes a near-perfect film, moving audiences and refreshing old works for new times. However, more frequently…
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Cómo el “Día de los Caídos” fue despojado de sus raíces afroamericanas.
Written by: Ben Becker What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that cause. These days, Memorial Day is arranged as a day “without politics”—a general patriotic celebration…
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Un hombre negro es asesinado cada 28 horas por la policía o grupos de justicieros: Estados Unidos está perpetuamente en guerra con su propia gente.
By Adam Hudson From the war on drugs to the war on terror, law enforcement’s battle against minorities serves as pacification. Police officers, security guards, or self-appointed vigilantes extrajudicially killed at least 313 African-Americans in 2012 according to a recent study. This means a black person was killed by a security officer every 28 hours. The report notes that it’s possible that…
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Primer mapa indígena de este tipo; el mapa de EE. UU. muestra “Nuestros propios nombres y ubicaciones”.”
By Monica Brown, Tulalip News Writer Aaron Carapella, a Cherokee Indian, has taken it upon himself to create a map that shows the Tribal nations of the U.S. prior to European contact. The map is of the contiguous United States and displays the original native tribal names of roughly 595 tribes, and of that, 150…
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Las cifras reales: La mitad de Estados Unidos vive en la pobreza, y la situación va en aumento.
The Census Bureau has reported that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. A shocking figure. But it’s actually much, much worse. The Census Bureau has reported that 15% of Americans live in poverty. A shocking figure. But it’s actually much worse. Inequality is spreading like a shadowy disease through our country, infecting more and…
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Policías encubiertos autorizados a "tener relaciones sexuales con activistas".‘
Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of “promiscuity” with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police for four years. The former undercover policeman claims that sexual relationships with activists were sanctioned for both men and women officers infiltrating anarchist, leftwing and environmental groups. Sex…
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