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3 weeks ago | 
santacruzlocal.org | Shaanth Nanguneri
Watsonville resident Takashi Mizuno speaks about the importance of Indigenous history at Pajaro Valley Unified School District study session on ethnic studies Friday. (Shaanth Nanguneri – Santa Cruz Local)Ethnic studies town hall meeting6-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1 at Aptos High School cafeteria, 100 Mariner Way, Aptos. Pajaro Valley Unified School Board President Olivia Flores and Trustees Joy Flynn and Misty Navarro plan to discuss ethnic studies.
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2 months ago | 
latimes.com | Shaanth Nanguneri
Before his death in 2020, eminent Chicano historian Juan Gómez-Quiñones packed decades of Mexican American history into the garage and shed of the Pacific Palisades home he’d lived in for half a century —books, poetry, artwork, unpublished essays, research, police records and investigations. Among the records were stories about labor, Indigenous communities, race and the struggles of working-class Mexican Americans that few others had collected.
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2 months ago | 
newrepublic.com | Shaanth Nanguneri
After 19-year-old Maliki Jabari-Lathum pleaded guilty to felony home invasion charges in March 2023, he served the first part of his sentence at a juvenile detention center, where he could complete high school. He quickly excelled in the program; when he graduated in June 2024, a group of guards and teachers approached him and his family with a suggestion.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Shaanth Nanguneri
After 19-year-old Maliki Jabari-Lathum pleaded guilty to felony home invasion charges in March 2023, he served the first part of his sentence at a juvenile detention center, where he could complete high school. He quickly excelled in the program; when he graduated in June 2024, a group of guards and teachers approached him and his family with a suggestion.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
dailybruin.com | Shaanth Nanguneri
After hearing from a neighbor that his family’s Altadena home had burned down, Zion Berry knew he had to see it for himself. He drove to his home of over 12 years on Wednesday after his neighborhood had been destroyed by the Altadena fire, which started near Pasadena and Altadena on Tuesday and has since claimed over 14,000 acres of land.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
dailybruin.com | Shaanth Nanguneri
A prominent UCLA ecologist on involuntary leave filed a lawsuit against the University earlier this month, alleging wrongful suspension, harassment and racial discrimination. Ecology and evolutionary biology professor Priyanga Amarasekare joined UCLA in 2005, but she was suspended in July 2022 for a year with no pay by then-Chancellor Gene Block.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Shaanth Nanguneri
On a morning just days before the New Year, Kiran Thakkar received a worrying phone call. A friend had found anti-India graffiti overnight on the Newark Hindu temple he co-founded. Someone sprayed phrases disparaging India’s prime minister and hailing a secessionist movement for the country’s Sikh minority. Support rushed in from Indian American community leaders and politicians. But Thakkar and the rest of the quaint suburban temple’s board had little disagreement about how to move forward.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
asamnews.com | Shaanth Nanguneri
By Shaanth Nanguneri, CalMatters NetworkOne morning, a few days before New Year’s, Kiran Thakkar received a worrying phone call. A friend had found anti-India graffiti overnight at the Newark Hindu temple he co-founded. Someone had painted phrases disparaging the prime minister of India and praised a secessionist movement by the country’s Sikh minority . Thakkar and the rest of the quaint suburban temple’s board of directors disagreed on how to move forward. They didn’t want to make a fuss.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
calmatters.org | Shaanth Nanguneri
EN RESUMEN: El vandalismo de tres templos hindúes en California ha aumentado los temores de que se cometan crímenes de odio contra los indios estadounidenses. Mientras tanto, los sijes están nerviosos por los ataques contra los líderes separatistas en América del Norte. Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
kqed.org | Shaanth Nanguneri
Sep 9Failed to save articlePlease try againKiran Thakkar, a volunteer at SMVS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple in Newark, walks past a sign that was vandalized in 2023 on the temple property on July 31, 2024. (Florence Middleton/CalMatters)But Hindus aren’t the only ones in California’s Indian community who are seeing a rise in hate crimes and bias against them.
