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We're starting to learn more about why black students have long been disciplined more harshly than their similarly-behaving white counterparts. Prospective teachers are more likely to perceive the faces of black adults as being angry compared to the faces of white adults, a new study finds.
Senator Elizabeth Warren walks with Parkland student Leonor Munoz during the March for Our Lives rally in Boston on Saturday, March 24, 2018. When a gunman armed with an assault weapon opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last month, 17-year-old Leonor Munoz was among the students who hid in a classroom, worried that she would be among the 17 people who lost their lives that day.
Former president Bill Clinton took on the politics of discrimination and division in a panel discussion in Boston Friday night, never naming President Trump but pointedly addressing recent controversies that have been associated with the president's rhetoric and the views of some Trump supporters. Speaking on a panel before a crowd of more than 1,000 at Northeastern University's Matthews Arena, Clinton said that racism, sexism, homophobia, and other biases are nothing new, but that those elements are "all hanging out there now, for obvious reasons."
In this Thursday, July 28, 2016 file photo, Chelsea Clinton and former President Bill Clinton applaud as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Hundreds of college students from across the U.S. will be coming to Boston for a leadership conference created by former President Bill Clinton.
Last Friday Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America. As in so many other offensive things he has tweeted since November, Trump began this year by trying to besmirch the reputation of John Lewis and his courageous actions in turning the USA away from its segregationist past and setting it on a path to achieve its founders' dreams.
In this Sunday, July 24, 2016, file photo, climate change activists carry signs as they march during a protest in downtown in Philadelphia a day before the start of the Democratic National Convention. Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor at Northeastern University, says the split with science is most visible and strident when it comes to climate change because the nature of the global problem requires communal joint action, and “for conservatives that's especially difficult to accept.” He and other experts say climate change is more about tribalism, or who we identify with politically and socially.