Tag: ethnicity
Chicagoans change routines as immigration crackdown looms. Some carry passports and avoid stores
CHICAGO – The streets in some of Chicago's liveliest neighborhoods are quiet these days. Public schoolteachers want online learning for families scared to venture...
Chicago churches urge calm resistance ahead of expected federal intervention
CHICAGO – The Rev. Marshall Hatch urged congregants of a prominent Black church on Chicago’s West Side to carry identification, stay connected to family...
Al Sharpton to lead pro-DEI march through Wall Street on anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington
NEW YORK – The Rev. Al Sharpton will lead a protest march on Wall Street to urge corporate America to resist the Trump administration’s...
Trump’s push to oust Fed’s Lisa Cook unites anti-DEI effort, bid to control independent institutions
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's vow to fire Lisa Cook, an economist who is the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve's...
Thoughts about the afterlife sparked R.F. Kuang’s newest novel, ‘Katabasis’
For Rebecca F. Kuang, who has had six bestsellers before the age of 30, an eternal afterlife of leisure scares her more than the...
Justice Department won’t defend grants for Hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for colleges with large numbers of Hispanic students that...
Some workers would be excluded from student loan forgiveness program for ‘illegal’ activity
WASHINGTON – Teachers, social workers, nurses and other public workers would be cut off from a popular student loan cancellation program if the Trump...
Trump plans to sign an order requiring colleges to prove they don’t consider race in admissions
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order requiring colleges to submit data to prove they do not consider race in...
Trump’s push for drilling, mining sharpens debate for Alaska Natives about land they view as sacred
BETHEL, Alaska – Fish camps still dot the banks of the broad Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska. Wooden huts and tarped shelters stand beside...
Restoration of torn-down Confederate monument will cost $10 million over 2 years, military says
ARLINGTON, Va. – Restoring a memorial to the Confederacy that was removed from Arlington National Cemetery at the recommendation of Congress will cost roughly...