In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
An Alabama man killed by a K-9 officer was one of thousands of Americans bitten by police dogs every year. Few ever get justice.
The tiny pink house was pretty much empty. Nevertheless, someone was trying to burglarize it, a caller told 911 well after midnight on a Sunday in Montgomery, Alabama.
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As an expression of performance poetry, spoken word forms a singular link between poetry and theatre. So it is fitting that spoken-word artist Javon Johnson鈥檚 one-man show 鈥淪till.鈥 is helping launch Pasadena Playhouse鈥檚 PlayhouseLive, a streaming platform.
Party City is pulling Confederate-themed Halloween costumes after a mother and her two Black children discovered them in a Virginia store.
2020 will always be known as the year of the pandemic but one day it could be known as the year of change.
Studies show violence, oppression, and police brutality have impacted the Black community at a disproportionate rate when compared to other ethnic groups in the United States. One way that Black people have learned to fight back is by coming together and using one single voice to demand change.
Mark Padoongpatt 鈥11, a professor of Asian American studies, turned his Ph.D. thesis into a book on Thai immigrants that landed him air time on the Hulu show hosted by Padma Lakshmi.
Undressed. A new erotic platform where the power lies with the practitioners is gaining ground. The business model will revolutionize the sex industry, it sounds. Has porn become progressive?
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As the LatinX population grows in Nevada to some 30 percent of the total, they are adding to and transforming culture, business and politics throughout the state.
In Salt Lake City, police officers set a dog on 36-year-old Jeffrey Ryans after responding to a call that he was arguing with his wife. Body-cam footage shows officers cornering him as he exited his backyard, demanding that he 鈥済et on the ground鈥 and warning that if he didn鈥檛, he was 鈥済oing to get bit!鈥 This threat set the stage for the spectacle of violence that soon followed as the officers encouraged the dog to attack a compliant Ryans, mangling his leg for 50 seconds. The animal鈥檚 only job in this scenario was to debase, violate and humiliate a Black man the officers presumed to be guilty.