Conan vs. Leno: A Sign of Our Aging Times
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 31, 2010
A NAM editor writes Jay Leno's return to late night is a sign mainstream TV may have to start targeting aging baby boomers as the younger viewers scatter to new media.
Categories: Elders, Ethnic Media Network, Top Stories
Tags: carson, cbs, conan obrien, late night, leno, letterman, nbc
Fatal SF Shooting May Be Related to Sex Business
Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Jan 31, 2010
Fatal SF Shooting May Be Related to Sex Business
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tags: chinese american san francisco sex business brothel robbery
State of the Union Address: We Cannot Be SilentPresident Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address is a testimony to the power of we: we, who dared to dream breaking the centuries-old color barrier at the White House was possible.
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 31, 2010
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address is a testimony to the power of we: we, who dared to dream breaking the centuries-old color barrier at the White House was possible.
Categories: Ethnic Media in the News, Latino
Tags: color barrier, President Barack Obama, state of the union
School Matters: Students' 'Core Needs' Not Being Met
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Jan 31, 2010
A leading researcher says low-income students have been hit the hardest by California's budget cuts, and that the much lauded, federal Race to the Top competition among school districts will do little to help students receive what they need most: a high quality public education.
Categories: Education, Stimulus Watch
Tags: california, race to the ttop. budget cuts, stimulus. schools
Latino Leaders Grade Obama
Vida en el Valle, Interviews, Posted: Jan 31, 2010
Latino leaders in California's Central Valley grade the president on his first year in office after this week's State of the Union. Traducción al español
Categories: Ethnic Media in the News, Latino, Politics & Governance
Understanding Haiti's History Key to Understanding the Quake
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 31, 2010
UC Berkeley Professor Percy Hintzen says to understand the devastation following Haiti's earthquake, you have to understand the Caribbean nation's important role in modern history.
Categories: African American, Latino, Original NAM Content
Tags: aid, earthquake, haiti, history, homeland, poll, port au prince
Líderes latinos evalúan al presidente
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Vida en el Valle preguntó a los latinos del área cuál es su impresión de Obama.
Categories: Ethnic Media in the News, Latino, Politics & Governance
Las tres palabras que Obama no dijo
America, Commentary, Posted: Jan 30, 2010
Como dijo el director ejecutivo de America’s Voice, Frank Sharry, “sabíamos que la mención de Obama de la reforma migratoria sería acelerada, pero no esperábamos que fuera a 75 millas por hora”.
Categories: Latino
The Three Words Obama Didn't Say
America, Commentary, Posted: Jan 30, 2010
As Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, said, “We expected the Obama mention of immigration reform would be a drive-by; we just didn’t expect it to be at 75 miles per hour.” Traducción al español
Categories: Ethnic Media in the News, Immigration, Latino
Tags: obama immigration reform, state of the union immigration reform
Detroit Arab Immigrant Gets Deportation Reprieve
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Jan 30, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Middle Eastern
Tags: arab american, deportation, detroit, ice, immigration
Yemen: A Haven for Qhat Not Al-Qaeda
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Jan 30, 2010
Noted Middle East scholar William O. Beeman believes the narcotic qhat is the root cause of many of Yemen's ills.
Categories: Audio, Middle Eastern, Video
A Coming of Age Moment for Haiti’s Neighbors
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 30, 2010
Haiti's neighbors in Latin America and Caribbean face an existential challenge. How can they step up to the plate and help Haiti rebuild even as they manage their own pressing domestic problems?
Categories: International Affairs, Latino, Top Stories
Tags: Caribbean, earthquake, Haiti, Latin America
Jobless Americans -- A Neglected Priority
El Observador, Commentary, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
Bailout funding will do little to address the the high U.S. unemployment rate, writes the editor of San Jose's El Observador. If Obama is to win re-election in 2012, the Democratic Party must take on this "neglected priority."
Categories: Latino, Politics & Governance
Obama Administration Threatens to Yank Stimulus Funds Over Civil Rights
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
For the first time since President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act a year ago, his administration has threatened to withhold stimulus money from a transit agency because it failed to comply with federal civil rights laws.
Categories: Stimulus Watch
ICE Anti-Drug Bust Nets Nearly 500 Detainees
La Opinion, News Report, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
ICE Anti-Drug Bust Nets Nearly 500 Detainees
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Law & Justice
Tags: asia, big freeze project, drug trafficking, ice, immigrants, mexico, south america
Obama's Stimulus Can't Slow Black, Latino Unemployment
New America Media/Final Call, News Report, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
President Obama is asking Congress to send him a new jobs bill. This as a New America Media/Final Call investigation shows the stimulus bill he signed last year did little to slow the rise in Black and Latino unemployment.
Categories: African American, Stimulus Watch
Tags: black unemployment, jobs, latino unemployment, stimulus
New America Now: The Power of Women
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
New America Now presents A Woman's Special featuring the only female Prime Minister of Peru, a rare example of a woman completing a Torah, and the reality of emerging roles for Muslim women today.
Categories: African, African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Education, International Affairs, Latino, Middle Eastern, Religion, Video
Tags: Beatriz Merino Peru Prime Minister, bendixen & associates poll, Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco Torah, eyebrow threading in texas, Pregnant Women in Detention Centers, randa jarrar map of home, Sumbul Ali-Karamali muslim next door
Women's Rights Under Fire in Texas and Arizona
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
Undocumented pregnant women being held in detention centers have reason to worry; and, women in Texas are facing harsh obstacles in getting their license to practice eyebrow threading
Categories: Audio, Immigration, Video
Tags: eyebrow threading punishment texas, undocumented pregnant women detention centers
H1N1 Stories Rivet Capitol Hill Event
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
Dr. Henry Lin, a surgeon, was helpless to save his son from the H1N1 virus. He told his tragic story and urged parents to vaccinate their children at a Capital Hill briefing on the flu.
Categories: Health
Tags: capital hill, h1n1, Kathleen Sebelius, tamiflu, vaccination
Cosmopolitan Obama Shuts World Out in State of the Union Address
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
Essayist Richard Rodriguez says America was capable of creating Obama. But the president's job is much harder - recreating America. In his first State of the Union address, the president tried to romance the Congress, but can he romance the country once more?
Categories: Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Video
Tags: Obama, Richard Rodriquez, state of the union
Teen Abortion Rates Spike
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- youth chose good over green, teen abortions on the rise and a 16-year-old sails around the world while blogging.
Categories: Audio, Video, Youth Culture
Tags: abortion, globe, money, pregnancy, technology, travel, youth
Field Poll: Californians Flunk State of the Union and State
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
President Obama might have tried to instill some hope and optimism with his State of the Union but a new poll of California voters finds they think the country and the state is off track.
Categories: African American, Latino, Middle Eastern, Polls, South Asian
Tags: California Voters, Field Poll, State of the Union
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Pakistan Link, News Feature, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
Maria Toor Pakay grew up in the tribal regions of Waziristan in Pakistan where the Taliban exert a lot of influence. Now she is Pakistan's top-rated squash player.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, International Affairs, South Asian
Tags: squash, Taliban, women's rights
Oscar Grant's Daughter Wins $1.5 Million Settlement
New America Media Yo! Youth Outlook, Video, Posted: Jan 29, 2010
BART shooting victim Oscar Grant's five-year-old daughter was awarded a $1.5 million settlement. John Burris, attorney for the Oscar Grant family, reacts to the settlement.
Categories: Video
Tags: Court Case, Daughter, John Burris, Lawyer, Oscar Grant, Settlement, Verdict
Poll of the Haitian Diaspora on the Earthquake
New America Media, Poll, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
New America Media and Bendixen & Amandi poll Haitian Americans on their reaction to the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Price, Haiti.
Categories: Polls
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60%40%Ethnic Media Parse the State of the Union
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
Latino media coverage expressed disappointment that President Barack Obama largely ignored the thorny issue of immigration reform in his State of the Union address. Chinese media worried that he brought up China twice, both times as a concern.
Categories: Top Stories
Tags: immigration reform, latinos, obama, state of the union
College Gender Gap Narrows . . . Except for Hispanics
Hispanic Business, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
The perplexing college gender gap in which 57 percent of all U.S. undergraduates are women has, for the first time in years, failed to grow even wider, with one exception: Hispanic men continue to lose ground on Hispanic women, according to a new study
Categories: Education, Ethnic Media in the News, Latino
Tags: college, education, gender-gap, latinos, women
Africa a Challenge for Obama in 2010
Oneworld.net, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
The Obama administration has failed to increase funding for HIV/AIDS programs, bolstered the much maligned International Monetary Fund (IMF), and tripled the budget for the U.S. Military Command in Africa (AFRICOM).
Categories: African, Ethnic Media in the News, International Affairs, Politics & Governance
200 Filipino Runaways Stranded in Saudi Arabi
a href=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/182577/200-filipinos-in-jeddah-fail-to-make-it-home>GMANews.TV, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
200 Filipino Runaways Stranded in Saudi Arabia
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Middle Eastern
Howard Zinn: The People's Historian
Big Think, Video, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
Howard Zinn, an historian who became part of U.S. history as a participant in civil rights and social justice movements, died Wednesday at 87, leaving behind a long legacy of writing and activism.
Categories: Education
NAM Poll: Haitian Quake Leaves Diaspora Grieving
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
Haitians living in the United States are deeply impacted by the devastating earthquake that hit their island homeland earlier this month, according to a poll sponsored by New America Media.
Categories: African American, Latino, Original NAM Content, Polls
Tags: aide, assistance, bendixen, earthquake, haiti, homeland, immigration, poll, port au prince
The Colleague Behind the Homicide Statistic
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
When Albert Cobarrubias was unexpectedly killed in a random act of gun violence. the media covered his death as a number. Raj Jayadev of Silicon Valley De-Bug remembers Albert as an inspiration and a friend.
Categories: Latino, Original NAM Content
Tags: Albert Cobarrubias, homicide, murder, san jose
Urban Homicide in 2009 - What Does the Good News Mean?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
The crime statistics released by the FBI in January tell a relatively encouraging story but are by no means easy to explain, writes one noted crime-watcher.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Impoverished Chinese Men Find Wives in Vietnam
Chongqing Evening News, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
The Field Poll: California's Diversity a Mixed Blessing
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
The Field Poll queried California voters about what they felt about the state's growing diversity. Most saw advantages but many also understood it meant growing friction and adjustment pains.
Categories: African American, Asian, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Polls
Tags: California, diversity, racism, The Field Poll
The Sound of Cape Verde Returns
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2010
Nha Sentimento is the new album from singer Cesaria Evora. Emmanuel Nado, host of Africa Mix on KALW, discusses the long-lasting popularity of the African music legend.
Categories: African, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Original NAM Content, Video
Tags: Africa Mix KALW, Cesaria Evora new album, Emmanuel Nado, Nha Sentimento
Haiti - Profiting from misery?
Final Call, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
Two days after the quake, Democracy Now, a daily independent radio and television program that is nationally syndicated, aired segments of a Jan. 13 speech given by Canadian journalist and author Naomi Klein at the New York-based Ethical Culture Society.
Categories: African, Ethnic Media in the News
Haitians Need to Work With Diaspora to Rebuild Haiti
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
The Haitian diaspora are already doing a lot and can play an even more critical role in rebuilding Haiti says Marlene Bastien who hopes to become the first Haitian-American in the U.S. Congress.
Categories: Immigration, International Affairs
Drug Surveillance Drones Frequent Flyers in Latin America
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
Drone aircraft are increasingly engaged in counterdrug missions over South American jungles and Mexican cities. The drones, many manufactured and sold by Israel, represent the latest high-tech escalation of Latin America’s anti-drug efforts.
Categories: Latino, Law & Justice
Tags: brazil, drone, drug war, ecuador, israel, mexico, u.s. southern command, venezuela
Philippine News/GMANews.TV, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
Pacquiao's Trainer: Clottey Too Tough for a KO
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Ethnic Media Headlines
How Californians Feel About President Obama
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
The Field Poll taken in 6 languages uncovers how Californians feel about the Obama presidency.
Categories: Audio, Politics & Governance, Polls, Video
Waters and CBC Members Stand Strong for Black Media Jobs, Small Businesses, Housing and Census Count
LA Sentinel, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
The 10 Black members of the powerful House Finance Committee are still being applauded this week by the Black Press and Black leaders nationally for boldly boycotting a committee meeting in order to force a $4 billion allocation to benefit the Black community.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media in the News
Chinese Woman Throat Slit in NYC
World Journal, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
Chinese Woman Throat Slit in NYC
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Indian American Publisher to Receive High Civilian Honor
desitalk.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
Indian American Publisher to Receive High Civilian Honor
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
The Football Game That Changed New Orleans
Nola Beez, News Feature, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
On January 16, 2010, the Saints won a game that left the city positively giddy but the significance of the game may actually be overshadowed by a game that didn't happen in New Orleans.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media in the News
U.S.-Cuba Relations: 1 Step Forward, 10 Steps Back
Caribpress.com, Commentary, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
Washington's move to increase scrutiny of travelers from Cuba in wake of Christmas Day bombing attempt by Nigerian national appears to have given both sides ample reason to revert to old ways.
Categories: Ethnic Media in the News, International Affairs, Latino, Politics & Governance
Ling Chi Wang Leaves CAA After 40 Years of Service
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
Ling Chi Wang Leaves CAA After 40 Years of Service
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Betty Goes Home
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
To grow old in America away from the familiar sounds of home? Or to go back to the homeland far away from the children in America? One Indian immigrant makes the decision about where to spend her old age.
Categories: Audio, Elders, Ethnic Media Network, Video
Taiwanese President Began His Journey of Humanity to Central America
Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou stopped by San Francisco on Monday night before continuing his trip to Central America. Unlike his last two visits, Ma filled his plane with supplies for the victims of the Haitian earthquake. He described his trip as a “Journey of Humanity”.
Categories: Asian, Environment, Ethnic Media in the News, International Affairs
H1N1 Infections Fall, But a New Wave Could Erupt
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 27, 2010
State health officials downgraded the flu pandemic from “widespread” to “sporadic” but they are concerned about a third wave.
Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 26, 2010
Arizona denies undocumented immigrants the right to post bail. This means that if you happen to be pregnant like Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, you might have to give birth while shackled to a hospital bed.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, detention, immigration
Female Wrestler Fighting for Equality
Vida en el Valle, News Report, Posted: Jan 26, 2010
16-year-old Biridiana Mendoza, the only female wrestler at Selma High School, is determined to further her sports career and gender equality in sports. She is ranked sixth nationally in the 132-pound division.
Categories: Ethnic Media in the News, Latino
Vietnam Sentences 4 Pro-Democracy Activists
Nguoi-Viet.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 26, 2010
Vietnam Sentences 4 Pro-Democracy Activists
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Embarazada y encadenada: Justicia dura para los inmigrantes en Arizona
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 26, 2010
Embarazada y encadenada: Justicia dura para los inmigrantes en Arizona
Categories: Latino
Field Poll: Tea Party Off the Radar of Ethnic Californian Voters
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 26, 2010
A new survey finds that in California, the Tea Party has little resonance with minority voters. Most are not even aware of it.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Polls
Leland Cheung Becomes First Asian on Cambridge City Council
Sampan.org, News Report, Posted: Jan 26, 2010
Leland Cheung Becomes First Asian on Cambridge City Council
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Survey: Canada Tops for Filipino Immigrants
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jan 25, 2010
Survey: Canada Tops for Filipino Immigrants
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tea Party Rides 'Perfect Storm' of Populist Rage
New America Media, Roundup, Posted: Jan 25, 2010
A conservative backlash against the Obama administration and the Democratic agenda of health care and immigration reform is growing, with the Tea Party movement as the most visible proof. Three community organizers and activists dissect the roots of populist discontent and why the left is failing to ignite a movement.
Categories: Immigration, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
A Letter from Haiti: A Dream Unfulfilled
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 25, 2010
As we desperately and heroically tear through the rubble with our bare hands to free our fellow citizens, as we hopelessly seek medical care for the injured, we lament not only the dead but we also weep for the Haitian Dream.
Categories: Caribbean
Haiti Through the Lens of Arab Television
Mosaic Intelligence Report, Video, Posted: Jan 25, 2010
Middle Eastern satellite television often offers a steady stream of death and destruction. But now these images are not of Gaza, but of Haiti.
Categories: Audio, Ethnic Media in the News, International Affairs, Video
U.S. War Veterans Fight Deportation
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jan 24, 2010
Not even the most decorated and honorable military service can protect U.S. war veterans from ruthless immigration laws.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, War & Conflict
Indian Elders Fear Fraying Family Net
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 24, 2010
No discussion about aging in India is complete without a lament for the collapse of the extended family. Indians are graying, with 81 million over the age of 60. The population above 80, however, is growing the fastest. By 2050, according to UN estimates, 48 million Indians will be over 80.
Categories: Elders, Original NAM Content, South Asian
Tags: aging, economy, elderly, family, graying, India, population
Vietnamese-Canadian Taekwondo Grandmaster Among Haiti Missing
Bolsavik.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 24, 2010
Vietnamese-Canadian Taekwondo Grandmaster Among Haiti Missing
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Study: Lumping Ethnic Groups in Mental Health Research Leaves Many Untreated
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 24, 2010
Research into depression care that lumps together different ethnic groups misses important differences among them and the care they need, a new study reports.
Categories: African American, Elders, Health, Latino, Original NAM Content
Defeat in Massachusetts
La Opinión, Editorial, Posted: Jan 23, 2010
An editorial in La Opinion argues that Barack Obama was partly responsible for the Democrats' defeat in the Massachusetts senatorial election.
Categories: Latino
This Time it was Personal
Haitiantimes.com, Commentary, Posted: Jan 23, 2010
I have been covering my beloved homeland for about 20 years. The assignments have ranged from coup d’etats to elections to flooding , carnival and festivals. But the devastation brought on by this earthquake that shook this mountainous nation of roughly nine million people to its core, myself included.
Categories: African, Environment
Los mexicanos en los EEUU temen la violencia en México
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 23, 2010
La pobreza y falta de empleo ya no son las únicas causas por las que algunos inmigrantes mexicanos radicados en los Estados Unidos no quieren volver a su país. English Translation
Categories: Latino
Time for Obama to Get His FDR On
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 23, 2010
President Obama never encouraged the media concocted, adman’s fantasy land, comparison of him to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But with the Massachusetts vote debacle smacking him in the face, his only hope for rebound is to really act like FDR
Categories: Original NAM Content
Mexicans In U.S. Fear Violent Mexico
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 23, 2010
Poverty and joblessness aren’t the only factors keeping Mexican immigrants in the United States from returning to their home country. The escalating war on drugs in Mexico has made many of them afraid to go back. Traducción al español
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: army, asylum, calderon, cartels, drugs, immigrant, journalists, mexicans, murder, violence, war
Kuwait Court Gives Death Sentence to Filipina Worker
Philippine News/GMA News TV, News Report, Posted: Jan 23, 2010
Kuwait Court Gives Death Sentence to Filipina Worker
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Middle Eastern
The Year of Obama - Scaling Back High Expectations
Pakistan Link, Commentary, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
The promises of change from President Obama remain largely unfulfilled a year into his presidency. But there is still time and as a leader he has proven thoughtful and deliberate.
Categories: Politics & Governance, South Asian
Pray for Haiti
YO! Youth Outlook, Audio, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- young people share their take on how the world has responded to the crisis in Haiti.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Latinos, Corporate Power and the Supreme Court
National Institute for Latino Policy eNewsletter, Commentary, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision in the appeal of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission adds to the already corrupting influence of money on American politics, which is bad news for the Latino community.
Categories: Latino
Haiti Earthquake Calls Role of Journalists into Question
La Opinión, Editorial, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
The earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath are sparking a debate over the role of journalists: Should they be witnesses or participants in rescue efforts? Editors of La Opinión question the way mainstream media have made their own reporters the center of the story.
Categories: Environment, Latino, Media
School Matters: California Must Raise Latino Student Achievement
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
The achievement gap hurts Latinos and is bad for California. With an economy increasingly reliant on an educated workforce, California’s inability to close the gap threatens the state’s future economic stability.
Categories: Education, Latino, Original NAM Content
Field Poll: Ethnic Voters May Save CA Democrats
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
If Republicans want to build on Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts in historically blue California this fall, it will have to overcome the state GOP's inability to win over ethnic voters--or at least hope those voters stay home.
Categories: Immigration, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Polls
Tags: barbara boxer, california governor race, field poll, meg whitman, tom campbell
Arizona Law Would Criminalize Undocumented Immigrants
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
A bill moving fast through the Arizona Senate would allow local police to arrest and incarcerate someone for trespassing” into the territory of the state. It would also sanction those providing sanctuary, including faith-based groups.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, immigration, jan brewer, russell pearce, undocumented
New America Now: Field Poll Results, MLK in Memphis, Returning to India
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
An extensive field poll on the Obama presidency yields surprising results, Taylor and Bessie Rogers of StoryCorps discuss seeing Martin Luther King in Memphis, and Betty Kamath is returning to a home for the elderly in India.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, International Affairs, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Video
Tags: Africa Mix, Betty Kamath, Cesaria Evora, KTSF Channel 26, NOLA Beez, Obama Field Poll, StoryCorps, Taylor Rogers and MLK, Vincent Sylvain
Positive Views From California Chinese Voters in The Field Poll
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
Most Chinese Americans in California are pessimistic about the state’s economy but many also believe they're better off financially than others; and, a newly-launched regional news hub helps ethnic media in Louisiana expand online.
Categories: African American, Asian, Audio, Media, Original NAM Content, Video
U.S. Drone Missile Kills Filipino Bomber in Pakistan
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
Filipino Abdul Basit Usman, an alleged demolition expert for the Abu Sayyaf, and wanted by the U.S. for $1M is believed killed in a drone strike in Pakistan.
Categories: Asian, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, South Asian
Create Jobs Where the People Are
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 22, 2010
America’s jobs crisis is hurting everyone. But for African Americans, it’s a catastrophe. Unless America takes immediate steps to create jobs now—jobs where the people are—the damage will become even more entrenched, threatening generations of African Americans.
Categories: African American
Saving Haiti, Saving Humanity
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
Haiti is changing the way we look at life and the way we look at each other as human beings. It should also change how we look at immigrants here in the United States, struggling to survive.
Categories: Immigration
Tags: earthquake, haiti, hurricane katrina, immigrants, sheriff arpaio
Ali Wong: Adorably Inappropriate
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
The comedian and San Francisco native was back in her hometown telling jokes for a good cause.
Categories: Audio, Video, Youth Culture
Prices in Haiti on the Rise While Population Starves
Haitiantimes.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
Last week, the price of a small can of rice cost US$2. Tuesday, it costs Haitian US$3.50. A gallon of cooking oil that cost $10 only days ago now fetches US$20. What will they cost tomorrow? No one knows.
Categories: African, Ethnic Media in the News, Indigenous
Pacquiao-Clottey Face-Off Gets Grand, Glitzy Kickoff
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones will be hosting his very first boxing bout - Pacquiao vs. Clottey at the world's largest domed football stadium. Located in Arlington, Texas, it's the same venue for this year's NBA All Star Game.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media in the News
Obesity Leveled Off in U.S., Except Among Boys
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
Our fight against obesity, which has leveled off across most of the population -- except one group: 6-19-year-old boys.
Categories: Front Page, Health, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Temporary Protection for Haitians: A First Step
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
The decision by the US to grant Haitians permission to stay, work and send remittances home is welcome news.
Categories: Economy, Environment, Front Page, International Affairs, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Ohlone Nation Fights to Save Ancestral Homeland
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
San Francisco and much of the Bay Area is the ancestral homeland of the Ohlone nation. Remnants of their villages can be found deep beneath the soil. The blood runs deep. They have lived in the Bay Area for more than 10,000 years according to carbon-dated artifacts.
Categories: Indigenous, Original NAM Content, Religion
Temporary Protection for Haitians: A First Step
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
The decision to grant Haitians currently in the United States permission to stay, work and send remittances home under a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is welcome news. But it's only the first step.
Categories: Immigration, International Affairs, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Filipino Scientist Makes New Vaccine Against Malaria
Philippine News , News Report, Posted: Jan 21, 2010
Filipino Scientist Makes New Vaccine Against Malaria
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Health, Stimulus Watch
Haitians Now Join Environmental Refugees
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
The earthquake in Haiti has potentially added another 1.5-2 million to the list of those displaced by environmental disasters, and many will no doubt seek asylum in other countries.
Categories: Environment, Immigration, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Tags: earthquake, environmental, haiti, obama, persecution, refugees, united nations
U.S. Bangladeshis Track Climate Changes Back Home
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
Concern about climate change among the public has waned, but the issue is foremost among many Bangladeshi Americans, because of the vulnerability of Bangladesh to climate change.
Categories: Environment, Original NAM Content, South Asian
Tags: bangladesh, climate change, global warming, india, rising, sea level, south asians
Miami Archdiocese Leads Haiti Orphans Rescue
El Nuevo Herald, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
Miami Archdiocese Leads Haiti Orphans Rescue
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
NY Immigrant 'Aid' Businesses Indicted for Fraud
El Diario/La Prensa, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
NY Immigrant 'Aid' Businesses Indicted for Fraud
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
Latinos and the Political Earthquake in Massachusetts
National Institute for Latino Policy, Commentary, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
The election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate could be bad news for Latinos, writes the commentator.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Politics & Governance
Field Poll: Californians Increasingly Disappointed with the President
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
According to a new multilingual voter survey by The Field Poll, one year into the Obama presidency, voters in the nation’s biggest minority-majority state are looking at their first minority president with increasing disappointment.
Categories: African American, Asian, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Polls, Top Stories
Tags: californians, field poll, obama, office, performance, president, rate, voters
Massachusetts Election: Death Knell for Immigration Reform?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
The historic election in Massachusetts could spell trouble for Democrats, but advocates of immigration reform say it’s not over yet.
Categories: Front Page, Immigration, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: democrats, election, republicans
Arab American Muslims, Christians Provide Relief to Haiti
Arab Detroit, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
Arab American Muslims and Christians, who from a national to local level are contributing to Haiti relief in unprecedented ways.
Categories: Middle Eastern
Field Poll: Californians Disappointed with President
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
A year into the Obama presidency, voters in the nation’s biggest minority-majority state are disappointed with Obama.
Categories: African American, Asian, Economy, Front Page, Latino, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: californians, obama, poll, presidency, voters
UCLA Study Finds Significant Labor Rights Violations
La Opinón, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
UCLA Study Finds Significant Labor Rights Violations
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Health Care Reform: Did Obama Deliver?
theloop21.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
After one year in office, theloop21.com looks at how President Barack Obama performed on health care reform?
Categories: African American
民意調查發現: 愈來愈多加州選民對奧巴馬感到失望
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 20, 2010
奧巴馬上任美國總統一年以來，有愈來愈多加州選民表示對他失望。根據民意調查機構Field Poll最新公佈的民調結果顯示，加州選民對奧巴馬的支持率僅維持在56%。
Categories: Asian
Multilingual Poll Finds Californians United in Financial Misery
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 19, 2010
California residents are united across racial and ethnic lines in viewing the state’s economic landscape as bleak and their own financial situation as worse than the previous year, according to a new multilingual voter survey by The Field Poll.
Categories: African American, Asian, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Polls, Top Stories
多語言民意調查發現加州選民在經濟困境中意見一致
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 19, 2010
多語言民意調查發現加州選民在經濟困境中意見一致
Categories: Asian, Immigration
In Haiti, Courage and Compassion Trump Violence
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 19, 2010
Don't believe the reports of violence and unrelenting riots in Haiti, writes a community organizer in Port au Prince. Most people are resilient and compassionate in the face of the great tragedy.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: anderson cooper, earthquake, haiti, port au prince, riots, violence
Arab American Facing Deportation, Separation From Family
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Jan 19, 2010
An Arab-American man who has been in the U.S. for 27 years and now resides in Hamtramck, Michigan, a smaller city inside Detroit, is scheduled for deportation Wednesday, leaving his wife and six U.S. born children behind, unless a U.S. Congressman intervenes by introducing a private bill addressing his case.
Categories: Middle Eastern
Second Chances For Unlikely Candidates
El Tecolote, News Feature, Posted: Jan 19, 2010
At the forefront of preventing recently released inmates from becoming just another statistic is San Francisco-based PHATT Chance Reentry Program.
Categories: Latino
Class of 2011 Sweatshirts Cause Controversy
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Jan 19, 2010
Class of 2011 Sweatshirts Cause Controversy
Categories: Education, Ethnic Media Headlines
Homes Designed for Extended Families Collapsed in Haitian Quake
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 18, 2010
In Haiti, when you want to add to your home, you build on top of the roof, which is concrete held up by pillars or strong walls on the floor below, writes a Delmas resident. But this practice could not withstand the earthquake.
Categories: African, African American, Intersections, Original NAM Content
Sunday Mass Was About the Dead
Haitiantimes.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 18, 2010
On the first Sunday after an earthquake destroyed this city, survivors struggled to keep to their routine, including attending mass.
Categories: African, Environment, Religion
Haitians Didn’t Believe This Was the Big One
Haitiantimes.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 18, 2010
Thousands of Haitians were killed and caught under the rubble for the same reason. They didn’t believe this was “the one” and were completely caught off guard.
Categories: Asian, Environment
King Might Picket Obama for Failing the Black Poor
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 18, 2010
Obama would be an easy target for King, says commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Under Obama, one in three blacks is poor, and the president doesn't appear to be plannning to do anything about it.
Categories: African American, Original NAM Content, Stimulus Watch
MLK's Dream Drained
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 18, 2010
After Barack Obama’s historic election, many pundits declared that the victory had ushered in a new “post-racial” era. But a new report shows that just as the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 60s did not end racism, the election of our first African-American president does not create a post-racial society.
Categories: African, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: mlk, obama, state of the dream
Could Pakistan's NorthWest Frontier Province Become Afghania?
Pakistan Link, Commentary, Posted: Jan 18, 2010
The North-West Frontier Province along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan has been considering a name change. But agreeing on a name is tough in an area with fierce tribal loyalties.
Categories: International Affairs, South Asian
India's Nano to Drive into U.S. Auto Market
The Times of India, News Report, Posted: Jan 18, 2010
India's Nano to Drive into U.S. Auto Market
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, South Asian
Rush to Aid Haiti's Earthquake Victims
One World.net, News Report, Posted: Jan 17, 2010
Individuals, aid organizations, and governments worldwide are rallying to aid the people of Haiti after Tuesday's devastating earthquake that has killed tens of thousands of people and crippled the infrastructure of the island nation, already the poorest in the western hemisphere.
Categories: African, Environment, Health
Lorenzo Baca: 'Veteran of Government Oppression' Endorses Census
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 17, 2010
On Jan. 4, longtime U.S. government critic Lorenzo Baca became the first Native American spiritual leader to offer prayer for the 2010 decennial census, by performing a sunrise ceremony at the northern foot of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Categories: Indigenous, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: census, indian, native american, new mexico
What My Recruiter Never Told Me
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 17, 2010
A U.S. soldier in Kosovo negotiates the minefield of a woman serving “in a man’s world.” Aimee Chabot condenses a series of actual events from her year-long deployment into a story about one day for the Veterans Workshop, a New America Media writing project for military veterans.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: commentary, female veterans, veterans, veterans writing workshop
Study: Large Gap Between Saigon Rich & Poor
Nguoi-viet.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 17, 2010
Study: Large Gap Between Saigon Rich & Poor
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Drugs...In Your Water?
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, News Report, Posted: Jan 16, 2010
This week on YO!Radio, we examine drugs in the news, from the proposed bill to tax and regulate sales of cannabis in San Francisco to New York health care facilities being fined for contaminating drinking water with discarded pharmaceutical drugs.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Chinese Media, Bloggers Ask: Is Google Really Saying Goodbye?
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 16, 2010
Google’s announcement that it may close its offices in China has some Chinese bloggers mourning the loss of a defender of freedom of information, while others are celebrating what they view as a victory for Chinese companies.
Categories: Asian, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Black Immigrant Rights Group Dispels Misconceptions
El Tecolote, News Report, Posted: Jan 16, 2010
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration opened a new center in Oakland, Calif., where it works to counter misinformation among African Americans about the economics of immigration.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Intersections, Latino
Tags: African Americans and immigrants, black attitudes on immigration, blacks and immigrants
Jordan: Al-Qaeda Hotbed?
Mosaic Intelligence Report, Video, Posted: Jan 16, 2010
The recent incident of the Jordanian suicide bomber who blew himself up in Afghanistan took many Jordanians by surprise, especially when they learned about the depth of the cooperation between their government and the US in the"war on terror."
Categories: Audio, Video, War & Conflict
Filipinos Saved in Haiti, Gov't Sends Help
ABS-CBN News, News Report, Posted: Jan 16, 2010
Filipinos Saved in Haiti, Gov't Sends Help
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
NY Dominicans Feel Haiti's Pain
El Diario/La Prensa, News Report, Posted: Jan 16, 2010
NY Dominicans Feel Haiti's Pain
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
Why Health Care Reform Could Leave Us All Worse Off
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 16, 2010
The exclusion of millions of immigrants from health care would jeopardize the health of all Americans, writes the commentator.
Categories: Health, Immigration, Original NAM Content
Fate of Undocumented Chinese in Haiti Remains Unknown
World Journal, News Report, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
Hundreds of undocumented Chinese immigrants who were living in Haiti as a stopover before crossing into the United States have been trapped in the island nation after Tuesday’s earthquake.
Categories: Asian, Environment, Immigration
The American Dream Downsized for Indians
Khabar, News Report, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
Indian immigrants, one of the most affluent minority communities, are having to downsize their American dreams in the middle of the recession.
Categories: South Asian
Know Before You Donate: Tips for Haiti Earthquake Relief
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
Before making a donation to Haiti earthquake relief efforts, make sure your money gets to the people who need it.
Categories: Environment, Original NAM Content
The American Dream Downsized for Indians
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
Indian immigrants, one of the most affluent minority communities, are having to downsize their American dreams in the middle of the recession.
Categories: Economy, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, South Asian
After the Quake, Depend on Women
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
If you want to help alleviate the suffering in Haiti, give your money to the women, says a leading human rights organization.
Categories: Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
A Young Mother's Manifesto: Five Tips for Raising Your Child
YO! Youth Outlook, Audio, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
A 19-year-old shares why she likes being a young mother and what she has learned from raising her 2-year-old son.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Latino Education Organization Partners with U.S. Army
La Opinion, News Report, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
Latino Education Organization Partners with U.S. Army
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
New America Now: Haiti Relief Efforts, Value of Nothing, and Sufi Soul
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
Relief efforts are underway for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, Raj Patel on why we know the Value of Nothing, and Indian music star Kailash Kher is releasing his first international album,Yatra-Nomadic Souls.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Environment, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, Indigenous, Latino, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Video
Haitian Americans Pledge Relief; Pacquiao-Mayweather Mega-Fight Knocked Out
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
This week on "Stories from the Ethnic Media": Haitian Americans pledge relief for earthquake victims; and why the super-bout between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather collapsed.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Environment, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Video
53 Filipinas in China Death Row for Drugs
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jan 15, 2010
53 Filipinas in China Death Row for Drugs
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Filipino Rescued From Collapsed Haiti Building
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jan 14, 2010
One of the four members of the Philippine delegation to the United Nations in earthquake-hit Haiti has been rescued, the Armed Forces of the Philippines confirmed today.
Categories: African, Asian, Environment, International Affairs
December Brought Bump in Joblessness for Latinos
El Mensajero, News Report, Posted: Jan 14, 2010
December Brought Bump in Joblessness for Latinos
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Latino
Chinese Media: It Was Only a Goodbye Kiss
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 14, 2010
The Chinese-American media are calling on the U.S. government to go soft on Jiang HaiSong after he was arrested last Friday for slipping through the security checkpoint to kiss his girlfriend goodbye at the Newark International Airport. But on Chinese Internet discussion boards, opinion is divided.
Categories: Asian, Original NAM Content
Tags: airport security, chinese media, kissing, love, newark airport
Haitian Restaurateur Helps With Relief Efforts in LA
Caribpress.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 14, 2010
Tigeorges is busy coordinating with local Haitians and planning a relief drive at his Glendale Boulevard restaurant – Tigeorges Chicken.
Categories: African, Environment, Indigenous
Haitian Americans Pledge Relief After Killer Quake
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 14, 2010
Amadi Ajamu, a reporter for Black Star News in New York, says the earthquake in Haiti is “the worst thing that could happen to a nation that is the epitome of black independence and struggle.”
Categories: Environment, Intersections, Original NAM Content
Vietnamese-born Priest Becomes Canada's Youngest Bishop
Bolsavik.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 14, 2010
Vietnamese-born Priest Becomes Canada's Youngest Bishop
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
All That Work and Still No Boys
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 14, 2010
Kathryn Ma relates the experience of Northern California's Chinese American immigrant community in All That Work and Still No Boys.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Original NAM Content, Video
Why Ugandans Embrace U.S. Christian Right’s Anti-Gay Agenda
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 14, 2010
The U.S. Christian right is to blame for a new bill in the Ugandan Parliament that would make some homosexual acts punishable by death.
Categories: African, Ethnicities, Front Page, News, Religion, Sections, Top Stories
Tags: africa, christian right, colonialism, gay, homosexual, jesus
California EconoTalk: Hey Honey, Should We Take That Job in California?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 13, 2010
California gets criticized for having high income tax rates and excessive regulations that force businesses to relocate. In fact, neither companies nor high-income individuals are “fleeing California” in large numbers.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: california business, california economy, california jobs
Brand New Funk -- Bay Area Music Vets Bring the Business
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jan 13, 2010
"Town Business" is the new super group put together by Bay Area rap legend Too Short featuring regional music veterans Martin Luther, Silk E and Kev Choice.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Intersections, Original NAM Content
Arab Americans Call Airport Profiling ‘Unconstitutional’
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 13, 2010
Some Arab-American and civil rights groups say the new airport screening regulations amount to "racial profiling" for citizens of 14 predominantly Muslim nations.
Categories: Immigration, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Colombians Continue to Migrate
Atlanta Latino, News Report, Posted: Jan 13, 2010
Colombians Continue to Migrate
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
After Reid, Will Blacks Finally Question Democratic Party Leaders?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 13, 2010
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s characterization of then-candidate Barack Obama’s chances to win the presidency because he is a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect”—well, was right, says NAM's Jasymne Cannick. But that's not the whole story.
Categories: African American, Top Stories
US Residents Mount Humanitarian Aid to Haiti
Haitiantimes.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 13, 2010
The earthquake was the strongest to rock Haiti in more than 200 years, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help and heavily damaging the National Palace, U.N. peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings. An aid official described "total disaster and chaos."
Categories: African, Environment, International Affairs
Nigerian in America
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Jan 13, 2010
Chimamanda Ngozi examines what it means to be Nigerian in America in The Thing Around Your Neck, the latest novel from the award winning author.
Categories: African, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Original NAM Content, Video
Federal Grand Jury Targets ‘Tough-Guy’ Sheriff
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 12, 2010
America’s self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a grand jury investigation into allegations of abuse of power. Latino and civil rights activists hope the investigation will have reverberations on the way he conducts immigration enforcement in Maricopa County.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Droves of Chinese Boats Fish Illegally in Vietnamese Waters
Nguoi-Viet.com, News Report, Posted: Jan 12, 2010
Droves of Chinese Boats Fish Illegally in Vietnamese Waters
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
More Filipinos Serving as UN Peacekeepers
Philippine News, News Report, Posted: Jan 12, 2010
More Filipinos Serving as UN Peacekeepers
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Obama Takes Step Backward on Cuba
El Diario/La Prensa, Editorial, Posted: Jan 12, 2010
An editorial in New York's El Diario/La Prensa calls on the Obama administration to reconsider its move to include Cuba on a terrorist list.
Categories: Ethnic Media in the News, International Affairs, Latino, Politics & Governance
Culture Clash in India
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 12, 2010
Thrity Umrigar is the author of The Weight of Heaven, a new book about culture clash in India.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Video
New York Ethnic Media Convening - Future of the Haitian Diaspora - Tuesday, Feb. 9th
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 12, 2010
A Convening to Talk About Haiti's Future and the Role of the Diaspora
Results of NAM National Poll of Hatians
Panel of Haitian media and community leaders
Q&A of community representatives
Categories: Events
Asian Civil Rights Group Sounds Alarm on Ethnic Make-Up of Redistricting Panel
L.A. Garment & Citizen, News Report, Posted: Jan 12, 2010
APALC representatives urge Asians and Pacific Islanders to put in for duty on the commission, which will draw new legislative seats based on 2010 census data.
Categories: African American, Asian, Ethnic Media in the News
Federal Grand Jury Targets ‘Tough-Guy’ Sheriff
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 12, 2010
America’s self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a grand jury investigation into allegations of abuse of power.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, arpaio, joe arpaio, maricopa county
New Orleans, LA-IRE Workshops, Fri-Sat, Jan. 23-24
New America Media, Event, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
Ethnic media watchdog workshops help journalists sharpen their skills, learn new approaches and add depth to their reporting. Award-winning journalists from around the country volunteer their times to provide training on topics such as the 2010 census, criminal justice, the economy, education, health care, immigration and local government. Hands-on spreadsheet software training also will be offered.
Hyper Local Ethnic Media Roundtable on H1N1 - Fresno, CA - Wednesday, Jan. 20th
New America Media, Event, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
A ROUNDTABLE EXCHANGE WITH LOCAL EXPERTS AND FRONT LINE HEALTH PROVIDERS
CIA and Security - Lost in Translation
Mosaic Intelligence Report, Video, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
The US security failure is not at airports, but rather with overseas intelligence agencies. Jamal Dajani says the CIA has done a shoddy job of gathering information in Arab and Muslim countries.
Categories: Audio, Ethnic Media in the News, Video, War & Conflict
Tags: CIA, Middle East
Immigration Enforcement Gets Nuanced Under Obama
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
Edward Alden discusses the new Obama immigration policy and his new book, The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Immigration, International Affairs, Latino, Video
Launch of NOLA BEEZ Hive for Hyperlocal News, New Orleans, LA. -Tuesday, Jan. 12
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
The NOLA BEEZ ethnic news hub is a project of New America Media's Digital Divide Initiative funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The goals of this project are to help community media set up a viable, robust online presence with trained contributors who could produce stories more efficiently and comprehensively, and to open up new lines of communication among and between ethnic and immigrant communities.
News Briefing- Poll Release - First Multilingual Field Poll of California Voters on California's Economy
New America Media, Event, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
For the first time the prestigious Field Poll surveys voters in Asian languages as well as in English and Spanish on questions of critical importance to the state’s political future. Poll results highlight differences and similarities among California’s different ethnic and racial groups.
Reducciones al presupuesto estatal ponen en peligro el programa de salud infantil
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
En su proyecto del presupuesto, el Gobernador Arnold Schwarzenegger ha amenazado a terminar el programa de Healthy Families.
Categories: Latino
Reid Spoke the Awful Truth about Obama’s Racial Exceptionalism
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid apologized profusely for his unguarded quip that Obama’s light skin and non-Negro dialect put him in good standing with him and by implication with other whites. NAM's Earl Ofari Hutchinson argues Reid spoke the awful truth that millions did give Obama a racial pass.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Original NAM Content
Tags: African American, harry reid, obama, race, racism
Officials Urge Arab Americans to Participate in Census
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
U.S. Census Bureau officials, the mayors of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, Mich. and U.S. Rep. John Dingell, recently led a community meeting urging participation in the 2010 census, especially Arab Americans.
Categories: Middle Eastern
State’s Budget Cuts Jeopardize Children’s Healthcare Program
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
California's Healthy Families program helps nearly one million children have access to health care. Now it might fall victim to budget cuts and federal health care reform.
Categories: Front Page, Health, Intersections, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: California, health care, Healthy Families, medical insurance, SCHIP
Launch of NOLA BEEZ Hive for Hyperlocal News, New Orleans, LA. -Tuesday, Jan. 12
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
The NOLA BEEZ ethnic news hub is a project of New America Media's Digital Divide Initiative funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The goals of this project are to help community media set up a viable, robust online presence with trained contributors who could produce stories more efficiently and comprehensively, and to open up new lines of communication among and between ethnic and immigrant communities.
Categories: Events
Hyper Local Ethnic Media Roundtable on H1N1 - Fresno, CA - Wednesday, Jan. 20th
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
Hyper Local Ethnic Media Roundtable on H1N1 - Fresno, CA - Wednesday, Jan. 20th
Categories: Events
주정부 예산 삭감, 위협받는 어린이 건강 보험 프로그램
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
주정부 예산 삭감, 위협받는 어린이 건강 보험 프로그램
州預算削減危及兒童健康保險計劃
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
州預算削減危及兒童健康保險計劃
Categories: Asian
Dự Thảo Ngân Sách Của Thống Đốc Đe Dọa Chương Trình Chăm Sóc Sức Khoẻ Trẻ Con
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
Dự Thảo Ngân Sách Của Thống Đốc Đe Dọa Chương Trình Chăm Sóc Sức Khoẻ Trẻ Con
Categories: South Asian
Supreme Court Undermines Protections for Older Workers
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
As tough as the job market is for older workers, the U.S. Supreme Court made their prospects even worse by weakening their ability to sue employers for age discrimination in a ruling rendered last term.
Categories: Elders, Original NAM Content
State’s Budget Cuts Jeopardize Children’s Healthcare Program
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
California's Healthy Families program helps nearly one million children have access to health care. Now it might fall victim to budget cuts and federal health care reform.
SF-Ethnic Media Education News Briefing and Training -Friday, Feb. 12
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
New America Media and The Education Trust-West invite ethnic media journalists to join us in San Francisco on February 12, 2010 to participate in an special education data training and intimate news briefing.
Categories: Events
News Briefing- Poll Release - First Multilingual Field Poll of California Voters on California's Economy
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2010
For the first time the prestigious Field Poll surveys voters in Asian languages as well as in English and Spanish on questions of critical importance to the state’s political future. Poll results highlight differences and similarities among California’s different ethnic and racial groups.
Categories: Events
Native Media and the 2010 Census - Tuesday, Feb. 16
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 10, 2010
A strategy session, organized by New America Media (www.newamericamedia.org), to plan and implement a 2010 Census advertising and communications campaign for southern California's native media outlets and community-based organizations.
Categories: Events
Latinos Outnumber Whites in San Fernando Valley
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jan 10, 2010
Latinos have become the majority in San Fernando Valley to the north of Los Angeles, reports La Opinión
Categories: Latino
My Big Phat Same-Sex Prison Wedding
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Jan 10, 2010
The debate over Prop 8 and same-sex marriage reached all the way into California's prisons. Dawn Davis married her lover in prison because she was afraid that by the time she left prison, same-sex marriages would be illegal.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: california, prison, Prop 8, same sex marriage
Thank You Mark Ingram
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Jan 09, 2010
Alabama running back and Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram spoke to the media after leading his team to a national title in the Bowl Championship Series game this week. One commentator felt he was speaking to him.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Intersections, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Salvadoran Deportations Down in First Week of 2010
El Tiempo Latino, News Report, Posted: Jan 09, 2010
The number of deportation flights for Salvadoran nationals has decreased since the beginning of the year at the request of El Salvador authorities, reports the Spanish-language weekly El Tiempo Latino.
Categories: Immigration
Filipina White House Chef Wins Iron Chef Face-Off
ABS-CBN, News Report, Posted: Jan 09, 2010
Cristeta Comerford, the first-ever Filipino-American White House Executive Chef, got a chance to prove her culinary skills on the TV show Iron Chef America.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
A Doctor's Word--Tips from Al on Managing Diabetes
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 09, 2010
Al Whitaker, 54, an associate church pastor in Boston, was diagnosed with diabetes nine years ago. But through diet, exercise and self-management, he is in control of a "scary" diagnosis and his health.
Categories: African American, Health, Original NAM Content
Tags: african americans, diabetes, glucometer, type 2
Dead Latinos
La Prensa San Diego, Commentary, Posted: Jan 09, 2010
When does one dead Hollywood actor trump another? When does one fierce dead organizer against social injustices trump another? In fact, when does a dead chimp responsible for a hideous attack catapult himself above the life of a dead Mexican anthropologist with over 150 books and articles filled with archaeological and cultural studies about Mayan civilization?
Categories: Latino
Schwarzenegger's Last Dance with California
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jan 09, 2010
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his last State of the State speech. But is the Hollywood hero riding off into the sunset or California's sunset? Essayist and author Richard Rodriguez discusses Schwarzenegger and the state of the Californian dream.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Video
New Violence in a New Year
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Jan 09, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- boy gets hit by stray bullet on New Years, holiday gunfire results in tragety, and one basketball player gets suspended for packing heat in the locker room.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Tags: gun, new year, oscar grant, shooting, violence
Immigration Reform Will Ease Economic Decline, Study Says
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
A new study contends that legalizing undocumented workers through comprehensive immigration reform would yield $1.5 trillion to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over a 10-year period, creating jobs and raising wages for all Americans. Traducción al español
Categories: African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Immigration, Latino, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, South Asian
Tags: American Immigration Council, Angela Kelley, Benjamin Johnson, Daniel Griswold, economic decline, economy, Heather Boushey, immigration, immigration reform, Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda
Reporte: Reforma migratoria aliviará caída económica
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
Un nuevo estudio realizado por un investigador académico afirma que la legalización de trabajadores indocumentados a través de una reforma migratoria comprensiva generaría un crecimiento de $1.5 trillones de dólares en el producto interno bruto (PIB) de los Estados Unidos en los próximos 10 años. English Translation
Categories: Immigration
Starbucks to Pay Mexico for Unauthorized Use of Aztec Images
EFE, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
Starbucks has agreed to pay intellectual property rights to Mexico for a line of coffee mugs depicting pre-Hispanic Aztec images
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: aztec, coffee mugs, intellectual property rights, mexico, pay, starbucks
The American Dream Downsized
< ahref=http://www.khabar.com>Khabar, Commentary, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
For many Indian Americans, one of the most affluent minority groups in the US, the economic meltdown has meant the unraveling of a lifestyle that revolved around dollar signs.
Categories: South Asian
New America Now: The Weight of Heaven and The Thing Around Your Neck
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
Edward Alden discusses the new Obama immigration policy and his new book, The Closing of the American Border, Thrity Umrigar is the author of The Weight of Heaven, and Chimamanda Ngozi examines what it means to be Nigerian in America in The Thing Around Your Neck.
Categories: African, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Immigration, Indigenous, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Video
Tags: all that work and still no boys, chimamanda ngozi, council on foreign relations, edward alden, kathryn ma, the thing around your neck, the weight of heaven, thrity umrigar
Spreading the Benefits from CA's Clean Air Law
New America Media, Interview, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
Nidia Bautista, policy director for the Coalition for Clean Air, talks about what the state can do to protect communities impacted by pollution and climate change with the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act.
Categories: Environment, Original NAM Content
Tags: california, climate change, global warming, pollution
Undercover Workers Find Hazards in Disney Factories in China
Beijing Times, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
Undercover Workers Find Hazards in Disney Factories in China
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
New Study Shows Impact of Immigrant Labor
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
This week on "Stories from the Ethnic Media": Immigrants are critical to the country's economic recovery.
Categories: Audio, Immigration, Indigenous, Original NAM Content, Video
Mayweather Blames Pacquiao for Mega-Fight Collapse
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
The super-bout between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. may be off, but the battle of words continues as Mayweather accuses Pacquiao of turning down a reasonable drug test compromise. Meantime, Pacquiao's camp announces his next fight will be with weltwerweight Joshua Clottey in mid-March.
Tags: boxing, fight, Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather, mega-bout, Pacman, Pacquiao
Murder-Suicide of Asian Ex Lovers
Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
A recent murder-suicide of a young man and woman in Southern California has left both families in shock.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Haitian Immigrant’s Redemption Story Leaves ICE Cold
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
A Haitian immigrant who has already served time for crimes committed 20 years ago suddenly finds himself facing deportation. Congressmen and church leaders point to Jean Montrevil's case to illustrate why the immigration and deportation system is broken.
Categories: Immigration, Original NAM Content
Tags: deportation, Haiti, immigration
Vietnamese Homeless Man Charged with Murder
Bolsavik, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
A Vietnamese homeless man was arraigned today on murder and arson charges stemming from the killing two weeks ago of a fellow Vietnamese homeless man in San Jose.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: alvin avenue, arson, dec 20, december 20, giang, homeless, murder, nguyen, phuong, quyen, san jose, tully road, vietnamese
India's Bajaj Scooter and Maruti 800 Car - R.I.P
Siliconeer, News Report, Posted: Jan 08, 2010
In an indication of a changing India, two lifestyle products that defined Indian middle class aspiration in the ’70s and ’80s, the Bajaj scooter and the entry-level Maruti car will soon cease to exist.
Categories: South Asian
Manny Pacquiao: I Had a Talk with God
Inquirer.net, News Feature, Posted: Jan 07, 2010
For the first time, the Philippines’ most famous athlete and the world’s pound-for-pound boxing king has revealed the secret of his success: he had a conversation with God who promised him “strength and power.”
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Intersections, Religion
Tags: boxing, Filipinos, Floyd Mayweather, Manny pacquiao, Mayweather, mega fight, Pacquiao, Philippines
King Abdullah Pardons 79 Filipino Inmates in Saudi Arabia
Philippine News, News Report, Posted: Jan 07, 2010
King Abdullah has granted a royal pardon to all jailed “petty criminals” in Saudi Arabia.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Filipino, John Leonard Monterona, King Abdullah, Malaz Central Jail, Middle East kingdom, Migrante, pardons, petty criminals, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Did Court Deal Fatal Blow to Tasers for Police?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 07, 2010
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently declared that police officers could be held liable for using a Taser without proper cause. But the decision stopped short of treating a Taser as a deadly weapon.
Categories: Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: police, robert heston, taser, Taser International
A Free School Breakfast, But Oakland Kids Aren't Biting
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 07, 2010
Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland feeds its students free breakfasts in their classrooms every morning, but it is unique among district schools.
Categories: African American, Education, Health, Latino, Original NAM Content
Tags: free breakfast, melrose academy, nutrition, oakland schools
Tiger Stereotypes Tiger, and Black Males, Too
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 07, 2010
Vanity Fair made it official. Tiger Woods is now a member in good standing in the pantheon of gang banging, drive by shooting, menacing, thug life, sexually on-the-make, young black males.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Tags: golf, obama, racism, stereotypes, tiger woods, vanity fair
California Man Murdered in Mexico
La Opinión, Editorial, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
Editors of La Opinión mourn the death of Agustin "Bobby" Salcedo, the assistant principal of a Los Angeles County high school who was killed during his recent vacation to Mexico.
Categories: Latino
Tags: Agustin Salcedo, cartel, drugs, Durango, El Monte, Gomez Palacio, Mexico, violence
Pacquiao, Mayweather Camps Fail to Settle Issues
ABS-CBN, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
The camps of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. failed to resolve their differences after nine hours of talks on Wednesday in Manila.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Al Haymon, Bob Arum, Daniel Petrocelli, Daniel Weinstein, mayweather, Oscar De La Hoya, pacquiao, Richard Schaefer, Todd DuBoef
Hispanics Lose Key Democratic Senator
PODER, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
Senator Chris Dodd from Connecticut, often called a friend of the Latino community, has announced his retirement from the Senate.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Byron Dorgan, Chris Dodd, Connecticut, Latino, North Dakota
Cancer - The Deadly Legacy of the Invasion of Iraq
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
Cancer and birth defects are skyrocketing in Iraq. Arab media say Iraqi doctors are struggling to cope and are worried that the impact of depleted uranium in bombs used in Iraq will be felt for years to come.
Categories: Health, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: al jazeera, depleted uranium, Iraq
Stimulus Saves English Literacy Classes in Massachusetts
New America Media/Brazilian Journal, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
The Everett Literacy Program in Massachusetts was rejuvenated by a $50,000 grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and 54 students saw their prospects brighten.
Categories: Immigration, Original NAM Content, Stimulus Watch
Tags: esl classes, immigrants, literacy, massachusetts, stimulus
Financial Secrets of 100 Chinese Women
ASIA, the Journal of culture and commerce, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
Chinese women in the United States have a lower unemployment rate (3 percent) and a higher average annual income than other women. In her new book, author Giovanna Pang Garcia explains "why Chinese women are not broke."
Categories: Asian
Tags: Alice Huang, Carol Lam, Chinese, Chinese Women Are Not Broke, Diane Tang-Liu, Flossie Wong-Staal, Giovanna Pang Garcia, Heather Fong, Ivy Chin, Jennie Chin Hansen, Jenny Ming, Judy Chu, Julia Chang Bloch, Lily Lee Chen, Real Life stories and proven keys for success, Sonya Gong Jent, Wan Ling Martello, Women
Border Arrests Increase
La Opinion, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
Border Arrests Increase
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tags: arrests, border, customs border protection, mexico
Latinos Protest Levy's Possible Bid for N.Y. Governor
El Diario/La Prensa, News Report, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
The announcement that Suffolk County executive Steve Levy is considering a run for governor of New York was not well received by the Hispanic community in Suffolk.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: anti-immigrant, Fernando Mateo, Governor, hate crime, immigration, Latino, Long Island Center for Labor Rights, Marcelo Lucero, Nadia Marin-Molina, New York, Steve Levy, Suffolk County
Race Shouldn't Be a Factor in Rape
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, News Analysis, Posted: Jan 06, 2010
According to the Contra Costa Times, the 15-year-old girl who was brutally gang raped outside of her Homecoming dance at Richmond High was Caucasian. This piece of information has left a lot of room for speculation and discussion.
Categories: Top Stories, Youth Culture
Rival Gangs Doing Business Together in L.A.
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jan 05, 2010
Los Angeles has seen a decrease in gang-related violence in recent years. One explanation is that rival black and Latino gangs that used to fight each other are now business partners, working together on drugs and arms deals.
Categories: Latino
Tags: aquil basheer, california gang outreach committee, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, gangs, Los Angeles, Michael Moore, robert lyons
Colorado Lawmakers, Activists Promote Pro-Immigrant Legislation
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jan 05, 2010
Colorado Lawmakers, Activists Promote Pro-Immigrant Legislation
Categories: African, Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
Tags: colorado, detention, formalities, immigration, morgan carroll, undocumented
Filipino WWII Veterans Have 6 Weeks to Apply for Benefits
Philippine News, News Report, Posted: Jan 05, 2010
Filipino WWII Veterans Have 6 Weeks to Apply for Benefits
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: benefits, filipino, kristie kenney, veterans
More Families Turn to Cremation During Recession
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jan 05, 2010
A record number of cremations was conducted last year by the Los Angeles Coroner's Office, La Opinión reports.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: cremation, David Smith, los angeles coroner's office, recession
Nigerians Parents Fear for Students Studying Abroad
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 05, 2010
US media wonder if Nigeria has Al Qaeda links after the attempt to blow up an airliner on Christmas. But the real worry for many Nigerians is when they send their children abroad for an education, are they risking them turning into terrorists?
Categories: African, International Affairs, Original NAM Content
Lawyer’s Trial Rivets Public and Tests Chinese Courts
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 05, 2010
China's eventful 2009 ended with another controversial episode: the trial of Li Zhuang, a prominent criminal defense lawyer from Beijing, which has put China's courts and legal system on trial, too.
Categories: Asian, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: china, chongquing, gangsters, li zhuang, torture
Landmark Native American Lawsuit Settled
Navajo Times, News Report, Posted: Jan 05, 2010
Landmark Native American Lawsuit Settled
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Indigenous
Tags: elouise cobell, ervin chavez, lawsuit, native american, salazar, shii shi keyah
Study Abroad Holds Peril for Nigerians
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 05, 2010
Americans worry if Nigeria is an Al Qaeda hub. But Nigerian parents worry if their children sent abroad for an education could be at risk of turning into terrorists.
Categories: African, Front Page, International Affairs, War & Conflict
Tags: education, Nigeria, Umar Faruq
Indians in US Divided Over Splitting of State in India
India West, News Report, Posted: Jan 04, 2010
The Government of India is mulling the idea of carving out a new state from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh which includes the tech city of Hyderabad. Non-Resident Indians in the U.S. are divided on the issue.
Categories: International Affairs, South Asian
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, bifurcation, Delhi, godavari, hyderabad, India, krishna, piscataway, prasad mangina, samaikhya andhra, Telangana, Telugu, vijay chawa, vijaya asuri
The Elderly Are Left Out in The New India
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jan 04, 2010
How do the 80 million elders in India see themselves fitting into the country's young and dynamic image? Not very well. This is the first in a series of reports by NAM editor Sandip Roy, whose reporting was supported by a fellowship from the South Asian Journalists Association.
Categories: Elders, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories
Heartbreak on America's Frontlines
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Jan 03, 2010
U.S. servicemen and women can pay the ultimate price for the nation’s security at the most unexpected times.
Categories: Front Page, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: iraq, ptsd, US politics, veterans, war
Legalize it, or Not?
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jan 02, 2010
Politicians, activist and street hustlers ponder whether or not Cannibus should be legal in California.
Categories: African American, Audio, Original NAM Content, Video
Tags: california, cannabis, JR Valrey, Lawrence Fowler, legalization, legalize, marijuana, prohibition
Few Nonprofits in Neediest Communities Hinder 2010 Census
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 02, 2010
A widespread shortage of community-based organizations in California's poorest communities hinder Census 2010 efforts.
Categories: Front Page, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: census 2010, non profits, poverty, race
Glee is Off Key On Race
ColorLines, Commentary, Posted: Jan 02, 2010
After 13 episodes, Glee has entered its hiatus on a high note—critical adoration, more than three million singles sold on iTunes and an ever-growing legion of self-professed “Gleeks.” But what does this show actually say about race?
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Ethnic Media in the News
Adoptive Parents Plan Roots Trips to China
Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Jan 02, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Adoption, Adoptive Parents, China, Chinese, families with children from china, orphan policy, roots trips, susan robinson
Scarcity of Nonprofits in Neediest Communities Will Hinder 2010 Census
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jan 01, 2010
California is counting on its nonprofits for outreach in the 2010 Census. But a widespread shortage of community-based organizations in the state’s poorest communities, which have historically been toughest to count, could spark undercounts even in cities that appear best equipped to tackle census outreach.
Categories: African American, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
What's Next: Muslim-Only Lines At Airports?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jan 01, 2010
Are Muslim-only lines at airports next? The thought is offensive, disgusting, and blatantly unconstitutional. But it’s hardly far-fetched.
Categories: Original NAM Content
No Flying Cars Yet … in 2010
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Jan 01, 2010
Movies, books and television have fed into our wildest fantasies of the future, from flying cars to robots. We asked young people what they thought the year 2010 would be like when they were kids, and what they think now.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
No Flying Cars Yet … in 2010
Yo! Youth Outlook, Commentary, Posted: Jan 01, 2010
Movies, books and television have fed into our wildest fantasies of the future, from flying cars to robots. We asked young people what they thought the year 2010 would be like when they were kids, and what they think now.
Categories: Audio, Video, Youth Culture
Tags: 2010, crime, flying cars, obama 2010, robots, the future
Chinese Acupuncturist Treats Veterans of Iraq War
China Press, News Report, Posted: Jan 01, 2010
Some American veterans of the Iraq war have turned to Chinese acupuncture to help them recover from injuries and relieve their pain after surgeries.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Acupuncture, Chinese, Iraq, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, LRMC, Veterans, War, Zhu LingBing
Phoenix to Hold Human Rights March
La Voz, News Report, Posted: Jan 01, 2010
Immigrant rights groups in Phoenix are planning a march for human and civil rights on Jan. 16.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines