It’s racist to oppose ethnic studies in higher education and K-12.
Now that I have your attention, allow me to explain. In California, while we’ve done a relatively good job of enforcing home isolation (for those with homes) and social distancing during this crisis, a debate is ongoing in the state Legislature and higher education about whether or not to mandate an ethnic studies course for undergraduates. More specifically, a state bill, Assembly Bill 1460, introduced by Assembly Member Shirley Nash Weber and co-authored by other members, is pending. If passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, it would make the 23 California State University campuses require all students to take one course of three units in ethnic studies to graduate. (The CSU represents the “nation’s largest four-year public university system.”) As approved by the CSU Board of Trustees in early 2013, CSU students need a minimum of 120 semester units to graduate for most bachelor’s
Fri Dec 11, 2020 at 4:57am ET
Tommy “Tiny” Lister Jr., known for playing Deebo in the 1995 stoner comedy film Friday, passed away on Thursday at the age of 62.
Law enforcement officials who went to perform a welfare check on Lister at his apartment in Marina Del Rey, California yesterday afternoon found him unresponsive.
L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said in a release that deputies went to his apartment after friends and associates became concerned that they had not heard from him since Wednesday night, TMZ reported.
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The deputies found Lister unresponsive and he was pronounced dead on the scene.
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Nash: The world loses an iconic thinker
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On the morning of Dec. 2, 2020, the world lost an icon with the passing of Dr. Walter E. Williams at age 84. Dr. Williams, born in Philadelphia in 1936, was fond of mentioning in speeches that his younger cousin growing up was none other than Julius “Dr. J” Erving, the legendary hall of fame basketball player. Though Williams reveled in the boast that he schooled Erving on the court, he always smiled and mentioned he was more than a decade older than the young superstar to-be.
Walter became a versatile writer, thinker, and speaker, in the fields of economics, education, and race relations. Williams often guest-hosted the Rush Limbaugh show and served as a guest on radio and television shows across the country.