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Each year, Juneteenth commemorates a milestone to freedom for Black Americans. As Black people celebrate this weekend, support Black businesses and buy these products from a Bay Area business.
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But it remains the “gak” challenge of recycling wastewater: public education and outreach plays a critical role in meeting water supply needs.
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Environmentalists personalize environmental impacts, using them as weapons against the general public. Do you want to avoid this guilt, they ask? Better become a vegan.
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Varsha Sarveshwar, the president of the UC Student Association, and Connor Strobel, the president of the UC Graduate and Professional Council, criticized the Student Aid Improvement Act of 2019 for failing to address many student priorities in a joint statement released Tuesday.
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Sorry, Horace Mann. You are wrong. Education cannot be “the great equalizer” –– or at least under the current conditions of the United States, it can’t be. We constantly hear from policymakers and politicians that education, particularly college education, can bridge racial and social inequalities, lead young people to enriching
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I took all the depression, guilt and anger that I had constantly built up within me and took it upon myself to accomplish my father’s unfinished mission. It wasn’t easy to get back on my feet, and I worried that I would fail my father because even though I had a lot of passion and determination, I felt completely lost.
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“I am more than ever convinced that education is the greatest factor in the upward climb of any person or people. My theme song has been: learn, study, read — continuously.” These words were written in the mid-1960s by Ida Louise Jackson, a UC Berkeley alumna and the namesake of
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It was my first day of classes at the vaunted UC Berkeley, and I had my notes out and ready to go. I was all set up for a good start to my college career.
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While many struggle to find a perfect – or even decent – place to live, for hundreds of Berkeley residents, housing is entirely inaccessible.
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At Berkeley High School, Black history may be the subject of an entire course, incorporated into the curriculum all year, resigned to a single month, or ignored.
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