From Acclaimed Scholar Robin Kelley in Democracy Now: “The Declaration of Independence is a little bit different in that it is not a constitution. It’s not law, per se. But it does make these claims that go beyond the drafters. When the drafters developed this declaration, they assumed that human beings were basically white men. Continue reading
A memory today – Remembering El Profe Manuel Castillejos. Continue reading
College for All Coalition at Solidarity Center in Pomona including representatives from Latino and Latina Roundtable, NAACP, and COFEM – with Nikki Dominguez carrying out an all-day workshop – as part of workshops being held by 72 organizations in various parts of the state – preparing participants for going to Sacramento to speak with legislators on key educational bills that can ensure full access, full investment, and full equity in public and higher education for our students – so that they can achieve their greatest potential.
Celebrating Pitzer Commencement with students Luna Romero and Isabel Pan (who took my class in their first year and participated in the next four years in organizing with farmworkers, day laborers, immigrant rights marches, and park restoration projects); with renowned political activist and Professor Angela Davis (whom I had met back in the early civil rights movement); Continue reading
A memory today. In May of 1970, I helped lead a strike of students at the University of Colorado in protest of the killing of four Kent state students against the war (on May 4th) and the killing of Black students at Jackson State . Continue reading
So good to be with Ann Stromberg and many of my former students at Pitzer Alumni of Color. Continue reading
Great turn-out for in-person and zoom Latino and Latina Roundtable Academy forum “Understanding the Donroe Doctrine” with Pomona College Emeritus Professor and Latin American scholar Miguel Tinker-Salas, Angela Sanbrano, and Jose Calderon (one of many more forums to come at the LRT offices in downtown Pomona)
A memory today of Pitzer students as part of one of my last classes where we visited Agbayani Village – a retirement center constructed in the early 1970’s for Filipino farm workers by the UFW in Delano (with volunteers such as Luis Juarez who was a student at the time and Continue reading