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“What happened in my high school experience was a very important moment for me to change my mind about what new immigrants can do to change our lives, change our community,” Chen said.
Going to school in fear
When they arrived in this country, Tong and Chen landed in the peculiar institution of the American neighborhood urban high school, where the most vulnerable children often are concentrated together and then denied what they need to thrive. New immigrants from all over the world interact with students from marginalized groups who have their own history of oppression. At the time of the attacks, Southern had a student body of more than 800 students, which was two-thirds Black and nearly a quarter Asian, with a small but growing Latino population and a handful of white students.
A 16-year-old was killed outside a 7-Eleven after looking at a man who took it the wrong way, police say Julie Shaw, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Police are searching for a gunman who they say killed a 16-year-old outside a 7-Eleven in Southwest Philadelphia last week because the teen looked at him in a way that made him feel disrespected.
“What are you looking at?” police say the man asked the teen when the two encountered each other inside the store.
“What are you looking at?” Kahlief Myrick responded, according to his family.
The man, believed to be in his mid-20s, waited outside for the teen to leave the store and then shot him in the chest, police said.
Ben Bova, Science Fiction Editor and Author, Is Dead at 88
As editor of the magazines Analog and Omni, he was a champion of a new generation of authors, including George R.R. Martin.
The author and editor Ben Bova signing an autograph for a young fan at a science fiction convention in 1967. “Ben Bova is the last of the great pulp writers,” one critic wrote.Credit.Jay Kay Klein/UC Riverside, Special Collections and University Archives
Published Dec. 13, 2020Updated Dec. 21, 2020
Ben Bova was a hard-science guy and a passionate space program booster and his visions of the future encompassed a dizzying array of technological advances (and resulting horrors or delights), including cloning, sex in space, climate change, the nuclear arms race, Martian colonies and the search for extraterrestrials. In newspaper articles, short stories and more than 100 books, he explored these and other knotty human problems.