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About 100 students occupied Hamilton Hall for four days to demand the university create an ethnic studies department, while a handful of students also staged a hunger strike that lasted two weeks.
WASHINGTON ‒ With some Black History Month activities being scaled back by the federal government, history and education organizations are ramping up efforts to fill the void. “We are stepping ...
[390] Chinese state media expressed support for the protests: the People's Daily wrote that American students are protesting because they "can no longer stand the double standards of the United States" and former editor-in-chief of the Global Times Hu Xijin said that the protests show that "Jewish political and business alliance's control over ...
They then marched from Hunter College to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the event was being held. 27 people were arrested, mostly for disorderly conduct. [332] Protests were also held at Bard College and Baruch College the same day. [333] [334] On May 9, a protest was held by students and faculty at the Cooper Union. [335]
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
NEW YORK -- Students at P.S. 28X in Tremont celebrated the start of Black History Month on Monday with a visit from Lincoln University's marching band. Staff at the primary school collaborated ...
The Free Speech Movement was the first US student movement that became a focus of scholarly attention into student activism. [116] The largest student strike in American history took place in May and June 1970, in response to the Kent State shootings and the American invasion of Cambodia. Over four million students participated in this action ...
Across the country in 2017, businesses like law offices and grocery stores shut their doors for the day, students skipped classes, people participated in public marches, and some employees opted ...