Her name is Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. Standing with students and being arrested “What job do I have if my students don’t have a future?” Hope she is doing okay
This Day In History: On Easter Sunday in 1966, Cesar Chavez led the Delano grape pickers' strike to the steps of the California Capitol in Sacramento after a 300-mile, 25-day pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento.
#NationalChavezCenter
Martin Luther King Jr: “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”
“We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation & militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others”
Many of today's college-aged Chicanos don't know the rich history of San Diego's Chicano activism in the '90s.
A new local exhibit and archive hope to change that.
From @XicanaCodex, @AGuzmanLopez and @MTellezPhD:
https://t.co/LgQZ8maXPo
The case of Mendez v. Westminster challenged and ended school segregation in California, laying the groundwork for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling via @NBCNews
https://t.co/ggSNeqKFo2
Our project “Memorias en Movimiento” documenting 90s Chicano Student Activism in San Diego received a @Cal_Humanities grant. So excited to do this work alongside my colegas @MTellezPhD @AGuzmanLopez @centro_raza https://t.co/zLcGPbMX8d
@GinaAnnGarcia Engaging college bound students starts BEFORE they set foot in college "door". Engage them from the HS level and then engage them when the come to tour campuses.
@KatherineMangan @GinaAnnGarcia 2/‘Everyone Wants to Be a Hispanic-Serving Institution: The number of HSIs has exploded. But are all those colleges helping their Hispanic students?’ https://t.co/W2mKlcmNhV
While tempted to focus rage on Clarence Thomas for colluding to destroy affirmative action after making his whole career from it, remember white women benefit most from affirmative action than any other group, and Amy Coney Barrett climbed that ladder then snatched it back too.
During Gloria Molina’s funeral, playwright Dan Guerrero said Molina once told him that “you have to have a fire in your belly” to become the first in so many things. https://t.co/D9fWZ6DzAz