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CAIR Calls On Over 400 University Leaders To Stop Targeting Anti-Genocide Protesters

By CAIR Photos: CAIR\YouTube Screenshots In new report “Hostile”, CAIR documents how universities have smeared and silenced students speaking in support of Palestinian human rights. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today delivered its new report documenting free speech violations and rising Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism...

College Baseball Needs More Black Players. A Tiny Kansas School Has Unique Approach To Recruiting

By KCUR\Greg Echlin Photos: YouTube Screenshots Only about 5% of college baseball players and coaches are African American. At Kansas Christian College, team leaders have made a deliberate effort to recruit from inner-city Kansas City — boosting Black representation in the process. Kansas Christian College, in Overland Park, is bucking a trend. In a collegiate...

American Federation Of Teachers Celebrates 70th Anniversary Of Brown V. Board Of Education

By Randi Weingarten Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Screenshots WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten, Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and Executive Vice President Evelyn DeJesus issued the following statement honoring the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, a decision that ended the legal basis for discriminatory “separate but equal” schooling: “Seventy years after Brown...

Murdering The Messengers: IPI Renews Call To Israeli Government For Justice In Killing Of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

By IFEX Photos: Wikimedia Commons Two years since veteran Palestinian-American journalist and IPI-IMS World Press Freedom Hero Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, there has still been no accountability for this crime.  The IPI global network today reiterates its demand for justice. We once again call on Israel to conduct a...

CARICOM: Trade Ministers Meet In Guyana For 58th COTED

By CARICOM Photos: CARICOM Above Photo: [Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General (2nd, l), addresses the opening of COTED. Also in photograph are, from left, Amb. Wayne McCook, CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, CARICOM Single Market and Trade (CSMT); Chair of the Meeting, Senator, the Hon. Paula Gopee-Scoon, Minister of Trade and Industry of Trinidad and Tobago, and...

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