By Alex Shashkevich Futurity Police officers consistently use less respectful language with black community members than with white community members, the first systematic analysis of body camera footage shows. Although subtle, widespread racial disparities in officers’ language use may…
By Melissa Vargas Incluido EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt likes to argue that EPA should focus more on its “core missions,” yet he comes to Congress to argue that funding for most of those very missions – such as protecting air and…
By Martina Guglielmone Council on Hemispheric Affairs President Trump’s recent announcement of his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord has brought attention to the fact that only two other nations – out of 197 in the…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat The National Center for Education Statistics this month released a congressionally mandated annual report summarizing development and trends in education. The 2017 Condition of Education reports some of the latest data by race…
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Latino and black children are less likely to get CPR with breaths, which lowers their survival chances, according to a new study, American Heart Association News reports. Study leaders examined records of 3,900 kids…
By Wu Mingren Ancient Origins Balankanché (which means the ‘Throne of the Sacred Jaguar’) Cavern is a network of caves located in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This cave network is situated near the famous site of Chichén Itzá, and was…
By Dan Birman The Conversation Inside the Juvenile Justice Center in Nashville, Tennessee is a steel door fitted with a high-security system. Push a button and the door unlocks, revealing another steel door with a slot for IDs. When…
By Vanessa Cárdenas Incluido Several years ago I found myself learning how to play football on a rainy field with 20 other Latinas at the San Juan Bautista Franciscan monastery in California. I am not sure why the…
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange From disproportionality to unfair gender bias to consent decrees to workforce development, legal professionals and youth workers reflect on what needs to be improved within juvenile justice at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative 2017 convening….
By Jason Madera Futurity Students who attend highly ranked colleges or universities exhibit better mental health than their peers at lower-ranked, less expensive schools do, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at five years of data on Reddit, scanning it for…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat So how do Latino parents judge the quality of their child’s school? The good old-fashioned way: by reviewing their child’s report card. A recent poll conducted by the Leadership Conference Fund, a nonprofit…
The Conversation Editor’s note: President Donald Trump stunned the world on June 1 by announcing his intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a landmark global agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions and minimize the…
By Sara Krevoy Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange The pool of Los Angeles County youngsters who wind up in voluntary probation are called “236 youth.” LOS ANGELES — Marbella Munoz was a foster child for most of her…
By Cliff Despres SaludToday A growing number of U.S. children may develop vision problems before they reach kindergarten, according to a study, Newsmax reports. Latino children were the most likely group to have vision problems. Study researchers examined U.S….
By Earl Anthony Wayne & Sergio M. Alcocer The Conversation Last week, officials from the U.S. and Mexico revitalized their commitment to fight cross-border smuggling of drugs, arms and money. U.S. officials recognized America’s demand for drugs as “the…
By Sharita Gruberg, Philip E. Wolgin, Tom Jawetz, Jamila Taylor, Danyelle Solomon, Frank J. Bewkes, Michela Zonta, Jackie Odum, and Harry Stein Center for American Progress Each year, the U.S. Department of Justice receives more than 10,000 complaints…
By La Monica Everett-Haynes Futurity Music can produce a humanizing effect for members of groups experiencing social and political opposition, research suggests. “I have played music most of my life and realized that there were these connections between how…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat As the number of Hispanic students enrolled in college has increased so has the discussion of the roles of the institutions that are educating them. A large portion of Hispanic students are concentrated in a…
By Ani Kokobobo The Conversation By and large, critics have taken Ivanka Trump at her word about her new book, “Women Who Work.” She claims she wrote it before her father’s election, “from the perspective of an executive and an…
By David Gagne Insight Crime A new report by an international humanitarian organization provides fresh statistics on the dangers that migrants from Central America’s Northern Triangle face both in their home country and during their perilous trek to the…
By Eric Moreno SaludToday Fact: Where you greatly impacts how healthy you will be. Lifespans differs by as much as 20 years at birth between the longest- and shortest-rated counties United States, revealing massive health inequities in different parts of…
By Jay L. Zagorsky The Conversation John H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resignedamid a funding fight over the 2020 Census. Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI, why…
By Diane Maceachern Moms Clean Air Force The Clean Air Act is coming under attack for being unnecessary and too costly to enforce. But the ‘State of the Air 2017’ report from the American Lung Association (ALA), shows that millions of people…
By Madeline Ottilie Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange The Los Angeles County Office of Education boasts that scores of young people who were at risk of dropping out of high school get their high school diplomas or their GED…
By Brendan Lynch Futurity A new study finds a correlation between defending racist language and expression as “free speech” and racially prejudicial attitudes and beliefs. “The correlation between using the free speech defense and people’s own racial prejudice is pretty…
