California recently mandated ethnic studies courses as a graduation requirement for schools across the state. In 2030, all students who graduate from a California high school will have taken at least ...

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The article was updated on Dec., 12 to clarify that the anti-bias protections in AB 101's "guardrails" were copied from existing state statutes. Three years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation ...

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “ethnicity” defines groups of people classified into common racial, tribal, religious, linguistic or cultural backgrounds. Yet, many students have found ...

In recent years, Ethnic Studies has become a focal point of intense controversy, particularly with the emergence of Liberated Ethnic Studies (LES). While both disciplines examine the histories, ...

This post was updated Nov. 27 at 8:29 p.m. I know firsthand what it feels like to have my culture and history tacked on to the end of a social studies unit. My Asian American heritage – along with ...

On the last day of summer break, Celine Chien stood by a giant wall at Menlo-Atherton High. Paintbrush in hand, the rising junior faced a half-finished mural three times her height — one Celine had ...

As Myanmar’s armed resistance against the February 2021 coup enters its second year, calls for ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), sometimes known as ethnic revolutionary organizations, to unite and ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The ethnic Armenian population of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in Azerbaijan, a largely Christian community in a predominantly Muslim nation ...

Apart from 29 million Uzbeks living in Uzbekistan, there are almost 3 million ethnic Uzbeks in neighboring Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and another 2 to 4 million ethnic ...

Introduction Black and Asian women experience significantly higher rates of mortality and morbidity perinatally compared with white women and are more likely to lose their babies. These groups are ...