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Clinton Slips on Immigration; Swastika Painted on Columbia Professor’s Door

Chicago High Schools Try New Approach For Black & Hispanic Students
Two Chicago high schools are offering assistance programs to bolster the test scores of struggling Black and Latino students. Administrators of Neuqua Valley and Waubonsie Valley high schools say it’s time to acknowledge the achievement gap between white and minority students across the country and take steps to remedy the problem. Daily Herald

Clinton Slips on Immigration Issue
Hillary Clinton is facing criticism for swinging back and forth on the issue of immigration. When asked at Tuesday’s debate about granting driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, she seemed first to support it and then to be against it. Competing candidates such as Obama commented on her hesitancy by saying that it, “left us wondering where she stood on every single hard question from Iran to Social Security to drivers’ licenses for undocumented workers.” MSNBC

L.A Latino Street Gang Targets Blacks In ‘Cleansing’ Campaign
A Latino street gang, F13, of South L.A have been arraigned on charges of shooting members of a rival black gang, as well as black civilians. F13 is the third high profile Latino gang to be charged with attacking blacks in the past two years. Los Angeles authorities are using wiretaps to weed out gang violence. Newsweek

Swastika Painted on Columbia University Professor’s Door
A swastika was found spray painted on Jewish Professor, Elizabeth Midlarsky, of Teachers College at Columbia. Professor Midlarsky admitted to having received anti-Semitic fliers in her mailbox earlier in the month. This incident comes after a noose was found on the office door of a Black Professor at the university. The New York Times

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