Jeff Biggers is the author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, forthcoming from Nation Books.
Every day that the Washington University chancellor fails to answer questions and demands for the university to cut ties with the energy giant, he and his university remain on the wrong side of history.
As the national debate on comprehensive immigration reform heats up, Georgia activists are fighting racist state-level policy.
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Mexican American Studies co-founder Sean Arce talks about the future of multicultural education in Arizona.
Award-winning historian and educator Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña discusses the Tea Party’s chilling attack on his work.
At a press conference Wednesday, Tucson Superintendent John Huppenthal declared the district’s Ethnic Studies/MAS Program to be out of compliance with the state’s controversial ban.
The Ethnic Studies issue is about to explode again this week in Arizona.
Arizona’s notorious anti-immigrant crusader is about to become the first State Senate president in US history to be recalled.
Stumbling further into the quagmire of a national public relations disaster, drastic new measures by the Tucson Unified School District officials have turned the “manufactured crisis” over the Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies Program into a troubling moral crisis for the city—and the country.
Students chained themselves to board members chairs and derailed the introduction of a controversial resolution targeting ethnic studies programs in Tucson schools.