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Closed Chicago Schools Could Remain Vacant Without Public Subsidy
Chicago Reporter, News Report, Posted: Jul 26, 2017
Why the deal died speaks to the difficult nature of repurposing closed schools, especially in disinvested communities like Austin.
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Closed Chicago Schools Could Remain Vacant Without Publ…
Closed Chicago Schools Could Remain Vacant Without Public Subsidy
Chicago Reporter, News Report, Posted: Jul 26, 2017
Why the deal died speaks to the difficult nature of repurposing closed schools, especially in disinvested communities like Austin.
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Black Women Vote in Large Numbers Yet Are Underrepresen…
Black Women Vote in Large Numbers Yet Are Underrepresented
Louisiana Weekly, News Report, Posted: Jul 26, 2017
America's Black women vote at high rates and are politically active, but remain underrepresented in elected positions relative to their population size.
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Deadly Gang War Gave Birth to Hit Fil-Am TV Show in Ala…
Deadly Gang War Gave Birth to Hit Fil-Am TV Show in Alaska
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jul 24, 2017
Barely three years after Nez Danguilan first arrived in Anchorage, a Filipino teenager was killed in a gang war here.
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Blind Senate: Healthcare Vote Minus A Draft, Public Hea…
Blind Senate: Healthcare Vote Minus A Draft, Public Hearings, Or Common Sen…
Trahant Reports, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 24, 2017
The Senate will vote to remake the healthcare system without a draft circulated for debate, public hearings, or common sense.
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McCain’s Health Battle Casts Ugly Glare on GOP He…
McCain’s Health Battle Casts Ugly Glare on GOP Healthcare Assault
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 21, 2017
McCain's high quality care for cancer treatment at government expense is the best argument that all should receive the same quality of care.
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Nation’s Black Women are Jailed at Unfair Rates,…
Nation’s Black Women are Jailed at Unfair Rates, Study Says
Louisiana Weekly, News Report, Posted: Jul 20, 2017
Black families are hurt by unfairly high incarceration rates for African-American women and the impediments they face once they’re out of jail.
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Diverse Cops Make the Difference in Policing Hate
Diverse Cops Make the Difference in Policing Hate
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 19, 2017
San Francisco's hate crimes unit is one of only a handfull of such police units across the country at a time when hate crimes are on the rise.
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Trump's Use of Filipino Law Firm Raises Conflict-of-Int…
Trump's Use of Filipino Law Firm Raises Conflict-of-Interests Red Flag
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jul 17, 2017
Donald's companies use a law firm managed by a Philippine government official, which poses the latest in a string of potential conflicts of interests.
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California Lawmakers Move to Protect Undocumented Worke…
California Lawmakers Move to Protect Undocumented Workers
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 13, 2017
A bill being proposed in California would require employers to ask for a warrant before allowing ICE agents onto their worksite.
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Controversial Criminal Interrogation Technique Suspecte…
Controversial Criminal Interrogation Technique Suspected Of Producing False…
Iowa Watch, News Feature, Posted: Jul 13, 2017
As she voluntarily entered the police interrogation room in Moline, Illinois, four years ago, Dorothy Varallo-Speckeen thought she was there to help solve a chi…
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Two Centuries Later, We Need Thoreau Now More Than Ever
Two Centuries Later, We Need Thoreau Now More Than Ever
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jul 12, 2017
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts two hundred years ago today, and America needs Thoreau now more than ever.
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Filipinos Sound Off on California’s Legalized Ass…
Filipinos Sound Off on California’s Legalized Assisted Suicide
Inquirer.net, News Feature, Posted: Jul 12, 2017
Silva-Netto explains that, as in the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church regards life as precious and it will do all that it can to preserve it.
As Summer Recess Approaches, Budget Blues for Federal Indian Funding
Indian Country, News Report, Posted: Jul 25, 2017
U.S. House appropriators are temporarily finding their efforts stymied to curb dramatic cuts to American Indian programs proposed by th…
Farmworkers Dread the Possibility of Losing Medi-Cal
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 19, 2017
In a town where 60 percent of farmworkers are undocumented, many are afraid to lose access to the little health care they have.
The Alaska Fix: How the Senate Could Fix Health Care & Govern in the Trump Era
Trahant Reports, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 19, 2017
The Senate will be on record. And we will know which Republicans are more loyal to their party than the country.
A Heart Soaring In The Sunset—The Shimmering World of Yayoi Kusama
Iexaminer, News Feature, Posted: Jul 10, 2017
From the early 1960s on, buoyed by her will to conquer the New York art scene, she began soft sculpture.
Louisiana Has One of the Highest Rates of Child Gun Deaths
Louisiana Weekly, News Feature, Posted: Jul 05, 2017
A study published in June by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that the Pelican State had the second-highest rate of child firea…
Elders
Black, Gray and Gay: The Perils of Aging LGBTQ People of Color
NBCBLK/New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jul 07, 2017
GOP Health Bill—How We Got Into This Mess
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 21, 2017
New ‘Poor People’s’ Leader: Anti-Voter Laws Worse Than Russian Meddling
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 12, 2017
Immigration
15 Arrested in Civil Disobedience Action Led by Immigrant Youth
La Opinion, News Report, Posted: Jul 26, 2017
Deadly Gang War Gave Birth to Hit Fil-Am TV Show in Alaska
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jul 24, 2017
White House Opposes New Plan to Protect Undocumented Youth
EGP News, News Report, Posted: Jul 24, 2017
Ethnic Media Headlines
President Trump Bans Transgender Pe…
President Trump tweeted Wednesday that transgender people will not be allo…
Michelle Obama Says Racist Attacks …
Former first lady Michelle Obama was a breath of fresh air Tuesday at a live arm…
15 Arrested in Civil Disobedience A…
Fifteen demonstrators, including four DACA recipients, were arrested Wednesday i…
Shiprock Looks to Humane Plan for F…
Shiprock Chapter President Duane “Chili” Yazzie has a plan to …
NAACP Pushes to Fight Trump-Led Pol…
BALTIMORE – The NAACP held its 108th annual convention and this year&rsquo…
NAACP Names Interim President and C…
The NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, has named …
Vietnam Shaken by China Threat of W…
Vietnam appears to have backed down following a threat of military action …
White House Opposes New Plan to Pro…
WASHINGTON – The White House suggested on Wednesday that President D…
Is Vietnam's Battle Against Motorbi…
Vietnam’s Communist party is stepping up an undeclared war on the mo…
Potentially Offensive Asian Tradema…
Many predicted that following the Supreme Court ruling allowing the Slants…
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Rise in ‘Bigoted Incivility’ - When Yo…
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Why the U.S. Needs to Rethink Its Strategy On Nort…
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Ability to Vote Compromised for Thousands Behind B…
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Trump's Ugly Mid-Year Report on Civil Rights
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Health Care Delivery is Worth a Policy Debate, But…
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$700 Billion Tax Cut for the Wealthy and The Dama…
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Google and the Equal Justice Initiative Launch Web…
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The Need to Fundamentally Recast the Healthcare De…
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A New Farm Worker Union Is Born In the Pacific Nor…
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Vietnamese Blogger Stripped of Citizenship and Exp…
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More Than 100 Federal Agencies Fail to Report Hate…
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Q&A: UC President Is Bullish on California’s…
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Health Care Rally in San Francisco Almost Turns De…
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Autopsy: Phillips Shot 11 Times, Not 10, Mortal He…
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The Opioid Crisis in Black and White
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Poll Shows ACA Enjoys Robust Support Among Califor…
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Detroit Doctor Allegedly Paid by Mosque to Perform…
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A Safer BART for All
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The Secret Republican Health Care Plan: Cutting Ta…
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California Leading the Way in Immigration Detentio…
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Cuts to Medicaid Devastating for Rural Kids
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Police Misconduct Payouts Continue to Break the Ba…
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Indiana Muslim Community Denounces Controversial B…
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Beyond Reducing Prison Population, Can Prop. 47 Re…
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‘Ellis Island of the South’ - Atlanta…