University of California students take to the streets on Thursday to protest fee hikes, campus racism, and what they call privatization of the public system that was a beacon for the state in the 1960s. . . .

Universal pre-kindergarten programs have less benefit for black youngsters than for whites in the United States, a study released Wednesday said. . . .

THE people of Bangladesh have just celebrated one of the most important events in our history, February 21, International Mother Language Day, a day that in the opinion of many had sowed the seeds of the liberation war. . . .

Even as the Pentagon, Congress, and the Obama administration spar with one another in a debate over gays serving openly in combat, the DoD has shifted the debate trying to focus on lifting the ban on women in combat. . . .