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S.F. Parents in a Tizzy Over New Way of Assigning Students to Schools
New America Media, News Report, Vivian Po, Posted: Sep 02, 2010
District plan to replace problematic “diversity index” with neighborhood-school approach has parents upset that they won't be able to choose the best place for…
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S.F. Parents in a Tizzy Over New Way of Assigning Stude…
S.F. Parents in a Tizzy Over New Way of Assigning Students to Schools
New America Media, News Report, Vivian Po, Posted: Sep 02, 2010
District plan to replace problematic “diversity index” with neighborhood-school approach has parents upset that they won't be able to choose the best place for …
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ICE Comes Clean—S.F., Other Cities Can Opt Out of…
ICE Comes Clean—S.F., Other Cities Can Opt Out of S-COMM After All
New America Media, News Report, Sandip Roy, Posted: Sep 02, 2010
Memo lays out procedures for local jurisdictions that don't want to comply with the federal program, but no one knows how the process would really work.
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Quietly Mad With Island Fever
Quietly Mad With Island Fever
New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Sep 02, 2010
Race relations explored in a fiction novel set in Japan.
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Asian-American Women Who Accept Abortion as a Way Out
Asian-American Women Who Accept Abortion as a Way Out
Hyphen Magazine, News Feature, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Posted: Sep 02, 2010
Many Asian-American women accept abortion as a practical way out of an unwanted situation.
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A Muslim-American Daughter's Plea: Build Your Mosque So…
A Muslim-American Daughter's Plea: Build Your Mosque Somewhere Else
LA Beez , Commentary, Neda Bolourchi, Posted: Sep 01, 2010
On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I watched as terrorists slammed United Arilines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. My mother …
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SCHOOL MATTERS: Giving Parents Access to Teacher Rating…
SCHOOL MATTERS: Giving Parents Access to Teacher Ratings: What’s Ther…
New America Media, Commentary, Arun Ramanathan, Posted: Sep 01, 2010
The L.A. Times released much needed data on how well 6,000 teachers in L.A. have improved student performance.
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The Conversation—Roy and Rodriguez on Ground Zero
The Conversation—Roy and Rodriguez on Ground Zero
New America Media, Video, Sandip Roy, Posted: Sep 01, 2010
Richard Rodriguez and Sandip Roy discuss the controversy over the mosque/community center near Ground Zero.
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Big Business for Mexican Cartels: Kidnapping Central Am…
Big Business for Mexican Cartels: Kidnapping Central American Migrants
La Opinión, News Report, Claudia Morales and Jorge Nunez, Translated by Elena Shore, Posted: Sep 01, 2010
Kidnapping, extortion and murder of Central American immigrants has become a source of income for Mexican drug cartels.
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Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal Is a Great Deal for Progr…
Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal Is a Great Deal for Progressives
New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Posted: Aug 31, 2010
The Iraq withdrawal by any measure is a solid administration accomplishment and Obama deserves the cheers for that.
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Following Faith: Adopted, Chinese and Jewish
Following Faith: Adopted, Chinese and Jewish
New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Aug 31, 2010
What is it like for a child who is adopted from China and must learn a new language, customs and family?
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Oh, No, It's a Girl! South Asians Flock to Sex-Selectio…
Oh, No, It's a Girl! South Asians Flock to Sex-Selection Clinics in U.S.
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Aug 31, 2010
Advertising online, U.S. fertility clinics are getting rich by exploiting deep cultural biases in India and other countries where sex-selection procedures are i…
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Neverending Journey: A Chinese Elder’s Casino-Bus…
Neverending Journey: A Chinese Elder’s Casino-Bus Nightmare
Sing Tao Daily/New America Media, News Report, Lotus Chau , Posted: Aug 30, 2010
They call him Old Li (in photo with cap). Too ashamed to return to China, he endlessly rides buses from New York to casinos. Not gambling, he lives on rebate co…
Katrina's Legacy Still Painful Five Years After Disaster
Final Call, News Report, Jesse Muhammad, Posted: Sep 01, 2010
As part of the Katrina commemoration, President Barack Obama delivered a national address from the campus of Xavier University.
Health-Conscious Fast Food Comes to D.C.
Washington Afro, News Feature, Dorothy Rowley, Posted: Sep 01, 2010
Founded in 2004, Energy Kitchen—a Manhattan-based chain with a health-centric menu— is backed by Vitaminwater co-founder Mike Repole.
With or Without Papers—The Same Life in a Labor Camp
New America Media, News Report, David Bacon, Posted: Aug 31, 2010
Undocumented workers and guest workers face the same problem when it comes to working: jobs are far and few in between.
Should “Payday Loans” Be Outlawed?
NNPA, Commentary, Posted: Aug 30, 2010
The “Payday Loan” industry is providing loans to people traditional financial institutions cannot, or will not serve
Steele, Republicans May Be Split on Immigration Reform
Washington Afro, News Report, Staff, Posted: Aug 30, 2010
Steele, speaking on Univision, said the views of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer don’t necessarily represent of all Republicans.
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Vietnamese Americans, the BP Spill, and the Lessons of Katrina
New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: Aug 29, 2010
Home Alone at 90—NY Chinatown's Isolated Elders
Sing Tao Daily/New America Media, News Report, Lotus Chau, Posted: Aug 25, 2010
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