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White House tackles college sexual assault

May 9, 2014 By Evlynn Wier

A new report released by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault says that one in five college women suffers sexual assault.

#Bring our girls home

May 9, 2014 By Emile Schepers

A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.

After Supreme Court decision, “Being Black at U of M” just got harder

April 29, 2014 By Alexandria Foster

In my first political science class at U of M, I quickly realized I was only one of a handful of African American students in a lecture class of 200.

Venezuelan opposition attacks Cuban health workers

April 29, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Cuban doctors contribute to the long term construction of systems of public health throughout the global South, health systems that were abandoned or disregarded during decades of neo-liberalism.

Teachers union leaders hit Supreme Court anti-affirmative action ruling

April 25, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, a Phoenix secondary school teacher, said it subjects minority group students to "separate and unequal political processes that put undue burdens" on them.