Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Internment. Incarceration. Not many people make a distinction between the two terms or understand why it’s so important to do so. But in a historic decision aimed at accuracy and reconciliation, the Los Angeles Times announced Thursday that it would drop the use of “internment” in most cases to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 … Read more
In partnership, CUNY’s Central Office of Student Affairs (COSA) and the CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy (CITA) have thus created a fellowship program to support faculty, staff within the HEO series, and student leaders who will work collaboratively to create and implement equity- and justice-based workshops that help their colleagues enhance their campus climates and cultures … Read more
Berkeley’s Eastwind Books — which focused on justice and solidarity, published when others wouldn’t, and stocked everything from rare recordings to academic texts to martial arts paperbacks — will close on April 30.
Demonstrated specialization and interest in areas related to one or more of the following: K-12 education; migration studies; transnationalism studies; diasporic studies; cultural productions; literature; and comparative ethnic studies
The inability to properly process alcohol enables it to sit in the stomach for a long time, making frequent drinkers more likely to develop chronic stomach inflammation, one researcher said.
The grant will be awarded to two next-generation changemakers and social innovators who, through their work and organization, may utilize the grant to accelerate their impact on climate change and environmental sustainability.