I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
58 percent of New Mexico teachers are white, despite minorities constituting an overwhelming majority of the state’s student body.
The findings come out of a set of reports published by a Washington, D.C. think tank that examined the dearth…
A new study from a Colorado-based educational research group takes a comprehensive look at the disparity in punishments handed to minority and disabled students by school administrators.
The College Board, which oversees undergraduate and graduate school entrance exams, released results for the 2011 SATs, revealing mixed news: More students took the test than ever before, posting scores that are some of the lowest in history.
The founder of the influential Fastweb.com and FinAid.org websites wrote a short research paper two weeks ago arguing college minorities receive a disproportionately smaller share of available private scholarships and grant funding. The paper has received renewed attention after popular…
Young voters who participated in the 2008 midterms were still more Democratic and racially diverse than the general population, according to an analysis of exit polls from Tuft University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning Engagement (CIRCLE)…
The YWCA Middle Rio Grande and prominent Hispanic Democrats gathered Wednesday in downtown Albuquerque to condemn and call for the firing of a prosecutor who sent an e-mail they called racist. Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Diane Denish said Wednesday afternoon…
I remember hearing people saying after President Obama’s election “There is no racism in America anymore.” But as we’ve seen repeatedly since the beginning of the year, and especially last week in the anti-health care march in Washington, the exact opposite is the case.
Some African-American community leaders are unhappy with the way a story in Thursday’s Albuquerque Journal portrays the city’s small black community. The front-page story featured large mug-shot images of six young black men accused of breaking “every law in the book.” But the story never mentioned race.
