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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Eighty students at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York lock themselves inside of a building to protest bias, bigotry and racism on campus in light of the administration’s response to a racist video that surfaced this month. Printed with permission of Zoe Casdin.

High schools nation-wide grapple with racism, homophobia, anti-semitism

Sophie Haber
March 21, 2019

Sixty African-American and Puerto Rican students barricaded themselves inside the administration building at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York on March 23, 1970. The students protested...

A map of recent hate crimes in each state. Photo illustration by Sarah Healy and Astor Wu.

The Hate They Give

Sophie Haber
December 12, 2018

Harsh red swastikas covered the walls of an unassuming Columbia professor's office Nov. 28. Scrawled in spray-paint, the word “Yid” was plastered above her computer screen. NYPD is investigating the...

Teach me to be tolerant

Chronicle Staff
April 27, 2010

By Michelle Yousefzadeh "Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu," sang a group of Polish Catholic high school students and American Jewish teens in the town of Otwock, Poland. The song is a Hebrew folk song foretelling...

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