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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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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.
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Rise in ‘Bigoted Incivility’ - When Your Gr…
Rise in ‘Bigoted Incivility’ - When Your Groceries Come With a …
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 11, 2017
Experts say a nationwide rise in hate incidents -- which do not rise to the level of a crime -- points to 'a new level of bigoted incivility.'
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Why the U.S. Needs to Rethink Its Strategy On North Kor…
Why the U.S. Needs to Rethink Its Strategy On North Korea
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 11, 2017
In the 16 years since the end of the Clinton administration, Washington and Pyongyang have made no progress in reaching a common understanding.
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Ability to Vote Compromised for Thousands Behind Bars i…
Ability to Vote Compromised for Thousands Behind Bars in Cook County
Chicago Reporter, News Report, Posted: Jul 10, 2017
Ambiguous state law means the ability of inmates to vote varies widely between jails, disproportionately affecting poor blacks and Latinos awaiting trial.
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Black, Gray and Gay: The Perils of Aging LGBTQ People o…
Black, Gray and Gay: The Perils of Aging LGBTQ People of Color
NBCBLK/New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jul 07, 2017
Economic, social and health disparities are especially challenging for black and Latino LGBTQ elders, but advocates around the U.S. are creating solutions.
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Trump's Ugly Mid-Year Report on Civil Rights
Trump's Ugly Mid-Year Report on Civil Rights
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 05, 2017
In the coming months, there will be renewed challenges to the Voting Rights Act, affirmative action, Housing discrimination.
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…
$700 Billion Tax Cut for the Wealthy and The Damage to American Health
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 27, 2017
Ten times more Americans will die from the passage of the Senate Health Care Bill than from terrorist attacks on American soil in the l…
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
Farmworkers Dread the Possibility of Losing Medi-Cal
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 19, 2017
California Lawmakers Move to Protect Undocumented Workers
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 13, 2017
A Safer BART for All
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Jun 19, 2017
Ethnic Media Headlines
US Congress to Conduct Hearing on T…
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States House of Repre…
O.J. Simpson’s Parole Is Not …
A rumor spread across the internet and social media Wednesday that O.J. Si…
Cities With Large Black Populations…
Cities with large black populations are more likely to use fines to increase rev…
Jeff Sessions is Rolling Back Basic…
As Donald Trump nears the end of his first 100 days, media commentary focu…
"The Bigot of Bitter Lake" -- North…
A man in north Seattle says he was assaulted on the street by a man who th…
Will Global Warming Change Native A…
The Colorado River, one of the longest rivers in the United States, is gra…
Asian American Students Experience …
Although only 17 percent of Asian American students report being bullied a…
Scholarship and Police Training Fun…
Police have shot and killed at least 175 black men so far this year, but i…
Audio Interview Confirms Dejuan Gui…
A new interview sheds light on the Mamou, La., death of Dejuan Guillory. T…
Iraqi Prime Minister Declares 'Tota…
MOSUL, Iraq — Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory Monda…
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Health Care Delivery is Worth a Policy Debate, But…
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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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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…
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Supporters of Muslim-Americans Outnumber Muslim Ha…
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Tracking Hate: Bigotry, Stress, More Evident at Ch…
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CSUC Student Newspaper Sparks Hate Speech Debate
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Farmers Face Labor Shortages Thanks to Trump
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Spotting and Avoiding Scams: An Open Discussion in…
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Trump Administration Takes on Obama’s Educat…