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Daily Archives: December 10, 2014

All SFUSD High Schools to Offer Ethnic Studies Classes

  (San Francisco) December 10, 2014 - The San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously to provide every high school student with the opportunity to...

I grew up in Guantánamo: Now that you have heard my story, you cannot...

Fahd Ghazy is a Yemeni national who has been detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, since February 2002 when he was only 17 years old. One of the last remaining prisoners to have been detained as a juvenile, Fahd was cleared for transfer by President Bush in 2007 and again by the Obama administration in 2009. Now 30 years old, he has spent over one-third of his life in Guantánamo without charge. He is represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Living in a world on edge: ‘It might not be safe to be here’

When you’re living in a world on the edge, you don’t know what to expect next. And we are on the edge, the edge of a new world war, with our own country the main instigator. When your nation’s own police departments and judicial system are so rife with injustice, racism and murder that it is no longer safe to be a Black male anywhere at any time, then “it might not be safe to be here.”