How I Died in Viet Nam
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 30, 2010
Actually, I died in Viet Nam. I’ve lived a rich and varied life the past forty years, but back in early 1970, I never made it home like I was supposed to. At least the me that was did not; that is, the one who died in Vietnam, Viet Nam.
Categories: Front Page, Original NAM Content, Veterans
Tags: american vets, anniversary, April 30, communist, vietnam, vietnamese americans, war
Immigrant Workers Face Firings Even Without Arizonas Laws
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 30, 2010
San Francisco might be pondering a boycott of Arizona because of its new immigration law but 475 immigrant janitors in San Francisco are facing firing after Homeland Security reviewed their Social Security records.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content
Tags: Arizona, immigration, janitors, workplace raids
Arizona Law Drives Chinese Job Seekers Away
World Journal, News Report, Posted: Apr 30, 2010
Crossing the Arizona-Mexico border is one of the most common routes Chinese immigrants take to enter the United States illegally, but according to the World Journal, some are planning to change their route.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: chinese immigrants enter United States illegally, chinese job seekers, mexico border
S.F. Chinese Speak Out Against Recent Violence
Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Apr 29, 2010
Hundreds of Chinese Americans throughout the San Francisco Bay Area gathered at San Francisco City Hall Tuesday to urge Mayor Newsom and the Board of Supervisors to take a stand against the recent violent attacks against Asians by African-American teenagers.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
First Legal Salvo Launched Against Arizona Immigration Law
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 29, 2010
A coalition of religious groups today commenced the legal battle against Arizona’s new controversial immigrant law, filing suit in the U.S. District Court to stop its implementation.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: arizona immigration law, Joe Arpaio, law enforcement, lega Salvo, Maricopa County
Arizona's Alarm Bell for Immigration Reform
New America Media/Council on Foreign Relations, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 29, 2010
To a greater extent than anywhere else in the country, Arizona's leadership]has become fixated on the idea that enforcement alone can solve the state's problems with illegal immigration. Yet Arizona itself has been a victim of that approach.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Tags: Arizona, border, illegal aliens, immigrant rights, sb 1070, undocumented
Mexicans, Indians, Filipinos Are Highest Numbers of New US Citizens
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Apr 28, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Indochinese, lead countries, legal permanent status, naturalization
Chinese Americans to Join Protest against Arizona Law
China Press, News Report, Posted: Apr 28, 2010
Categories: Arizona Watch, Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino
Tags: Arizona, Chinese, immigration law, protest, reform
Amnesty International: Arizona Law Violates Human Rights
El Universal, Amnesty International, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
Amnesty International announced that it was "appalled" over SB 1070, Arizona's new law that makes it a crime to be undocumented, saying the legislation "will surely increase racial profiling, arbitrary arrests and detentions in the state."
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Arizona, human rights, immigration, sb 1070
Mexican President Warns He Will Not Sit Idly By
El Universal, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
Mexican President Felipe Calderón condemned the new Arizona law on Monday, saying it “opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination, and abuse in law enforcement,” El Universal reports.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Arizona, Felipe Calderón, mexico, sb 1070
Mexico Issues Travel Warning for Arizona
El Universal, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
The Mexican government issued a travel warning to its citizens who plan to visit, live or study in Arizona, after the state adopted a law that makes it a crime to be undocumented, El Universal reports.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Arizona, immigration, mexico, sb 1070, warning
OAS: Arizona Law 'Discriminatory and Unacceptable'
La Jornada, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
The chair of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, and the Ibero-American Secretary General Enrique Iglesias, condemned Arizona's new immigration law.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Arizona, crime, discrimination, Enrique Iglesias, illegal, immigration, Jose Miguel Insulza, latino, law, undocumented
Lawsuit Restores Help for Thousands Denied Social Security, SSI
New America Media, Video, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
hanks to class-action court settlement, a quarter-million elders and people with disabilities can now reapply for wrongly stopped or denied Social Security or SSI benefits. Those cut off because of often old or mistaken arrest warrants can reclaim their share of $500 million in lost benefits nationally
Categories: African American, Asian, Elders, Latino, Original NAM Content
Tags: class action lawsuit, social security, ssa, ssi
Non-White Journalists Affected Most by Newspaper Cutbacks
Hispanic Link News Service, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: African American, black, colored, cutbacks, latino, newspaper, race, Ricardo Pimentel, white
Filipino-Canadian Boy Scolded for Eating with a Spoon Wins Damages
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tags: boy scout, discrimination, Filipino, race
UC’s New Policy on Freshman Admission -- Moving in the Wrong Direction
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
There is nothing fair about the new UC policy of freshman admission if it produces a less racially-diverse group of students and their academic achievement is lower than those admitted under the current policy.
Categories: African American, Education, Latino, Original NAM Content
Latinos, Blacks Join Fight for Civil Rights in Arizona
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 26, 2010
Arizonans from diverse communities, including black, Latino, Native American, Asian and gay activists, joined together Sunday to protest a new state law that makes it a crime to be undocumented. Leaders called the law a threat to the civil rights of all communities, and are planning to fight it using some of the strategies they learned from the civil rights movement.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, arizona black, arizona immigration law, arizona latino, jan brewer, MLK day arizona, sb 1070
Vietnamese Elders Overcome Isolation, Language Barriers to Be Counted in Census
New America Media, Video, Posted: Apr 25, 2010
Immigrant elders living in SRO hotels and subsidized apartments in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco managed to be counted in the decennial census, despite substantial obstacles.
Categories: Asian, Original NAM Content, Video
Tags: census, SROs, tenderloin, tenderloin SROs, vietnamese census, vietnamese elders
Arizona Anti-Immigration Law Puts Obama on the Spot
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 25, 2010
Arizona officials claim they had to enact their controversial new law because the federal government has stalled on comprehensive immigration reform. This dumps the immigration reform issue squarely back in Obama’s lap. And it couldn’t come at a worse time for Obama.
Categories: African American, Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, arizona immgrant law, arizona immigration law, jan brewer, obama, sb 1070
La Opinión Calls for National Boycott of Arizona
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
An editorial in the Los Angeles Spanish-language daily La Opinión calls for a national boycott of Arizona after the governor signed the nation's toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Immigration, Latin America, Latino, Politics & Governance
Tags: arizona law, immigrants, immigration
Mexico Warns of Retaliation for New Arizona Law
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
The Mexican government warned that it would reconsider its relations with Arizona after the state's governor signed the nation's toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: Arizona, Arizona immgrant law, Arizona immigration law, immigrants, Jan Brewer, Mexico, sb 1070
Buddhist Activism Tilting Thailand's Political Drama
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
Commentator Yoichi Shimatsu argues understanding Thailand's religious rivalries is key to understanding its Red Shirt rebellion.
Categories: Asian, Front Page, Original NAM Content
Tags: buddhism, red shirks, sri lanka, thailand
Pakistani-Americans Largely Unaware of Stimulus Opportunities
New America Media/Daily Khabrain, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
The Pakistani community is in the dark when it comes to the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), better known as the “stimulus package” signed into a law by President Obama in February 2009.
Categories: Front Page, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Stimulus Watch
Tags: arra, pakistani, recovery act
NAACP Hopes to Diffuse Tension Between Asians and Blacks in San Francisco
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
On Friday, Rev. Amos Brown gathered some of San Francisco’s Asian and African-American community, church and business leaders to come up with a course of action to end the recent string of violent acts in the city involving members of the two communities.
Categories: African American, Asian, Front Page, Law & Justice, Video
Tags: African American, asian, asian-americans, Bayview-Hunters Point, black-on-black crimes, blacks, hate crimes, Muni attacks, NAACP, Rev. Amos Brown, san francisco
Peace Fest for the Support of the Phoenix Community
PhoenixSoul, News Report, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
An estimated 3,500 people turned out for the "Stop the Violence" Peace Fest. The emphasis was to bring business owners, leaders, and members of the African American Community together for an afternoon filled with anti-violence performances. Attempting to bring out the awareness, that all races can live in peace and harmony.
Categories: African American, Arizona Watch, Front Page, Youth Culture
Tags: African American Community, community, event, peace, support
Boyajian: Turkey’s Henchmen: Mass Media Butcher the Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Weekly, Commentary, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
On Armenian Genocide memorial day, David Boyajian unravels the politics behind U.S. acknowledgment of the genocide and its strategic relationship with Turkey.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Politics & Governance
Arizona’s Law May Spark Pro-Immigrant Movement
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 today, making Arizona the first state in the nation to consider it a crime for a person to be an undocumented immigrant. But the passage of the Arizona law may also have ignited the pro-immigration reform movement.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Immigration, Latin America, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, arizona governor, arizona immigrants, arizona immigration law, arizona law, jan brewer
Statement by Governor Jan Brewer Signing Senate Bill 1070
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
The bill I’m about to sign into law – Senate Bill 1070 – represents another tool for our state to use as we work to solve a crisis we did not create and the federal government has refused to fix …
Categories: Arizona Watch
Tags: Arizona, immigration, jan brewer
Cyberbullying: From the Street to the Tweet
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- we hit the streets to talk to young folks about growth of bullying from the school yard to the FaceBook wall.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Tags: bullying, cyberbullying, facebook, internet
Obama Moves to De-link Terrorism from Islam
Pakistan Link, News Report, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
President Barack Obama has ordered a revision of America’s National Security Strategy to remove terms that link Islam to terrorism, for example "Islamic radicalism."
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Middle Eastern, Religion, South Asian
ICE Investigates Restaurants
La Opinion, News Report, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: ice, restaurants, undocumented immigrants, workplace raids
California Gets First Indian-American Judge
India West, News Report, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Law & Justice, South Asian
Tags: California, Indian, judge, justice
Young People to Jin Cheng Yu -- Keep Your Head Up
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
Two 18-year-old African-American men were charged with murder but not hate crimes Thursday in the fatal beating of a 59-year old Chinese-American man who had come to the aid of his son. Eight writers from Yo! Youth Outlook Multimedia write to Jin Cheng Yu, offering their thoughts on the death of his father.
Categories: African American, Asian, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: African American, Asian American, crime, murder
After Earthquake, Tibet Needs More Engineers, Less Monks
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
Commentator Yoichi Shimatsu writes that the April 14th earthquake that's left at least 2,100 people dead in the Tibeatan Plateau shows Tibetan society needs fewer monks and more working men who can handle tough chores in an emergency.
Categories: Asian, Original NAM Content, Religion, Top Stories
Tags: dalai lama, eathquake, monks, tibet, yoshu
EcoCenter Opens in Hunter's Point
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
YO!TV heads down to the new EcoCenter in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point at Heron Park.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Tags: bayview, earth day, ecocenter, green, hunter's point
South Asian Poetry Anthology Debuts in SF
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
Indivisible, the first ever South Asian anthology of poetry, held its national book launch at San Francisco's Book Smith.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Video
Tags: indivisible, poetry, south asian
N.Y. Ethnic Media Publish Joint Editorial on Immigration Reform
El Diario/La Prensa, Editorial, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
New York's El Diario/La Prensa, Haitian Times, Nowy Dziennik, and Caribbean Life published a joint editorial today urging New York’s political leaders in Washington to move immigration reform forward.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Immigration, Intersections, Latino
Treasured Teacher Embodies 100 Reasons to Learn Oneida
American Indian News Service, Profile, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
When Maria Hinton was born nearly 100 years ago, every Oneida family spoke the language of their ancestors. Now a great-great-grandmother, Hinton may be one of a few fluent Oneida speakers left in Wisconsin, but she is determined not to be the last.
Categories: Elders, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Indigenous
Tags: American Indian, language, Native American, Oneida
Report Confirms Fewer People Visiting Mexico
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
New data published by the National Institute of Migration shows that the number of people crossing the border into Mexico declined sharply in the first quarter of 2010.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: 2010, decline, economy, immigration, mexico, migration, national institute of migration, travel, visits
Police Chiefs Warn Arizona's Bill Will Make Communities Unsafe
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
Law enforcement officials from California to North Carolina are worried that the Arizona bill that would make it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant could soon spread to other states.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: arizona ICE, arizona immigration law, crime immigrant, immigrants arizona
Asian Prostitution Ring Busted by Feds
Sampan, News Report, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
Five people, two in New York and three in Massachusetts, were arrested by federal authorities on March 31 on 14 charges, including sex trafficking
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: arrest, brothels, craigslist, Dong Kai Chen, Hong Wei, ICE, Jing Liang Chen, sex trade, trafficking, Xiang Hua Zhang, Yu En Jin
U.S. Military Base Under Taliban Control
Al Jazeera English, Video, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
Known to U.S. soldiers as the Valley of Death, it's been the scene of the some of the most intense fighting in the war in Afghanistan. After years of intense fighting, the United States has left its remote outpost in the Korengal Valley, in the country's east.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Politics & Governance, War & Conflict
Tags: Afghanistan, Korengal Valley, taliban, u.s. military base
Obama Names Muslim Envoy to OIC
InFocus News, News Report, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Middle Eastern, Politics & Governance
Tags: obama, organization of islamic conference, Rashad Hussain
Inside Black-Asian Tension: Sometimes It Is About Racism
Reappropriate, News Report, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
Inter-ethnic tension between the Black and Asian communities has risen to the forefront of blogosphere discussion in the last couple of weeks, following several reports of violence between the two groups.
Categories: African, Asian, Ethnic Media Network, Youth Culture
Tags: African American, Asian American, Black, crime, race
Comcast-NBC Merger -- Bad for Latinos?
National Institute for Latino Policy, Commentary, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
Comcast and NBC Universal are trying to convince the nation's leading Latino civil rights groups that their proposed merger would benefit the Latino community. But according to the commentator, consolidation erodes opportunities for Latinos in the media.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Latino, Media
Tags: comcast, comcast nbc merger, latinos
Planeta o Muerte -- Evo Morales and the Revolutionary Politics of Mother Earth
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
By convening the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC), Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, has established himself as the leader of a hybrid global movement that links the rights of humans to what organizers have coined the “universal rights of Mother Earth.”
Categories: Environment, Front Page, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: Bolivia, Environment, Evo Morales Latin America, World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC)
Inside Black-Asian Violence--It’s Not About Race
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
Three separate attacks on Asian Americans by black teenagers in the San Francisco neighborhood of Bayview-Hunters Point have some speculating that the incidents are a sign of escalating racial tensions. But one young man who was taught to rob Asians and Latinos says the crimes aren't about race at all.
Categories: African American, Asian, Intersections, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: attacks on chinese, bayview, black asian violence, black latino violence, hunters point, muni violence, sf black asian violence
Chico Attorney's Water Project Quenches Thirst, Ambition In Tanzania
Chicosol.org, Commentary, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
Chico attorney Ron Reed has been shipping well-drilling equipment to thirsty villages in Tanzania for several years. But his water project assumed another role when he formed Tanzania's first all-female well-drilling team, the Lioness.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Tags: Besta Mlowe, chico, female, Ifunda, Kilolo, Lioness, Rod Reed, Tanzania, water project, well drilling
Filipino Absentee Voters Mail Ballots for R.P. Elections
Balitang America, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Filipino overseas absentee voting in the United States began on April 10 for the Philippine national elections to be held on May 10. Philippine consulate officials in New York are expecting a bigger turnout this year of Filipino-American voters.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Network, International Affairs, Politics & Governance
Tags: absentee, ballots, Filipino American voters, overseas, Philippine elections, registered, voters
Vegan Chef Pushes Slow Food, not Soul Food
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
A young African-American chef encourages, Washington, D.C. youth to cook healthy vegetarian food.
Categories: African American, Health, Original NAM Content
Tags: african-american, Alex Ashbrook, Café Green, cafe green, chef, D.C. Central Kitchen, D.C. Hunger Solutions, Dante Lewis, Danyelle Franklin, DCHS, Lauren Von Der Pool, Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association, Potomac River, Robert Egger, Tambra Stevenson, vegan, vegetarian, Ward 8, washington
McCain Supports Arizona's Anti-immigrant Law
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who co-authored an immigration reform bill with Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2005, called the new legislation approved in Arizona “a very important step forward,” La Opinión reports.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Politics & Governance
Tags: Arizona, Brooke Buchanan, frank sharry, immigration reform, Kennedy, legislation, Mccain, SB1070
CSUC Student Body President Victim of 'Hate Crime'
ChicoSol, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Chico State student body President Joseph Igbineweka was stabbed early April 18 in an attack that police describe as an attempted murder and hate crime.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: April 18, attempted murder, Barry Sayavong, chico, hate crime, Joseph Igbineweka, Paul Zingg, student body president
First Black U.S. Ambassador to Philippines Takes Post
Philippine News, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Californians Support Soda Tax
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
A majority of Californians would support an additional tax on beverages that contain added sweeteners, but support varies by geography.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: clean water, field poll, kettleman city, public health, soda tax
On Immigration Reform, Congress Ignores Will of Voters
Hispanic Link, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: immigration reform, National Latino Congress, U.S. Congress
Asian Americans not Financially Ready for Retirement
Nguoi_Viet.com, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Asian American, finance, retirement, security
The Jackie Robinson Baseball Won’t Remember
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Jackie Robinson is remembered for breaking the color barrier in 1947, a tipping point for race relations in America. The irony is that Robinson didn’t see baseball -- or America -- quite the way it is remembered today.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Original NAM Content
Tags: baseball, Jackie Robinson, race relations
Filipino Prosecutors Protest Gov't Clearing of Clan Leaders in Political Massacre
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: clears, Maguindanao, massacre, Phillippines, prosecutor
A Persian-Filipino Sees Iran in a New Light
GMANews.TV, Commentary, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
My parents found soul mates from distant lands: my fatherland is Persia (Iran) while my motherland is the Philippines. I share the DNA of two huge, dynamic and developing nations that in their histories have gone through their own share of glory and pain.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Tags: iran, persia, philippines
Teen Found Guilty in Long Island Hate Crime
El Diario/La Prensa, News Report, Posted: Apr 19, 2010
The young man accused of killing Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero in a racially motivated attack in Patchogue, Long Island was found guilty Monday of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: hate crime, Jeffrey Conroy, Long Island, new york, Nov 2008, Teen found guilty
Bolivia's Indigenous People Key at Climate Change Gathering
Inter Press Service, News Report, Posted: Apr 19, 2010
Categories: Environment, Ethnic Media Headlines, Indigenous, Latino
Tags: bolivia, climate change conference, copenhagen, indigenous people
Deporting Gandhi From Palestine
Mosaic Intelligence Report, Video, Posted: Apr 19, 2010
Americans often ask "Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" Jamal Dajani says they do exist -the non-violent resisters to Israel's occupation.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Video
Filipinos Warned of Fake Job Offers in Quake-Ravaged Haiti
GMANews.TV, News Report, Posted: Apr 18, 2010
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tags: earthquake, filipinos, haiti, port-au-prince
The Two Sides of Daryl Gates That I Saw
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 17, 2010
Daryl Gates, who died on Friday at 83, stood at the center of the tumultuous events that engulfed the LAPD. He was, depending on whom one talked to, the top cop who expanded and popularized the kick-butt, SWAT teams, or the top cop who devised and expanded innovative, programs such as DARE, which served as a national police model for drug prevention and education.
Categories: African American, Front Page, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: daryl gates, los angeles, race relations, riots, rodney king
A Doctor's Word: Uneasy About the Real Beneficiaries of Obama’s Health Care
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 17, 2010
President Obama's health care bill is a welcome step towards addressing health disparities in the U.S. But there is concern about who will benefit the most.
Categories: Front Page, Health, Original NAM Content
Tags: health care reform, obama
Re-Inventing the Comic Book
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 17, 2010
I never planned on purchasing an iPhone or Kindle or an iPad, but I did take the dive into the iPhone. My initial reaction to reading anything on my phone brought a certain level of uneasiness.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Tags: comic books, ipad, ipod, literacy, print books, technology, x-men
Sen. Reid Gives Hope for Immigrant Legalization
Asian Journal, News Report, Posted: Apr 17, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Politics & Governance
Tags: harry reid, immigration reform, u.s. senate, undocumented immigrants
Rebirth of Cool
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
This week on YO! Radio -- we're tackling the trendy topic of what's cool. YO! hit the streets to ask young people how they define cool from how they speak, what they wear, to who they hang out with.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
New America Now: Voices From The Muslim World
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
This week on New America Now - Voices From the Muslim World: Stephen Franklin talks about the dangers faced by Arab bloggers in the Middle East, author Reza Aslan the looks at the "clash of civilizations" mentality in No god But God, Sumbul Ali-Karamali explains how Muslim women are participating in society and changing the world in The Muslim Next Door, and filmmaker Parvez Sharma on his award winning documentary Jihad for Love which shows the pressures of being a gay Muslim.
Categories: Audio, New America Now, Original NAM Content
Tags: parvez sharma jihad for love gay muslims, reza aslan no god but God clash of civilizations, stephen franklin arab bloggers chicago community media workshop, sumbul ali-karamali the muslin next door muslim women
Arizona ICE, Tea Parties Panic Immigrants
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
In what immigration authorities called the single largest operation to fight human smuggling in the country, ICE agents conducted actions in immigrant neighborhoods in Phoenix and Tuscon, spreading panic among residents. Tea Party rallies in Maricopa County offered anti-immigration rhetoric, adding to the climate of fear.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, border security, human smuggling, ice, immigration reform, joe arpaio, tea party, tom tancredo
A 'People's' History of the Tea Party
ColorLines, News Report, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
John McCain. Newt Gingrich. CNBC. Fox News. Even poor old Michael Steele. It's taken a whole lotta leaders to keep this Tea Party going. An interactive trip down memory lane.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Tags: Tea Party
Fraudulent Immigration Group Must Pay $1.2 Million
El Diario NY, News Report, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Obama Mobilizes Countries for Nuclear Security
Balitang America, News Report, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
The Filipino Channel, one of the ethnic news media covering the Nuclear Summit in Washington D.C. reports that Pres. Obama wants countries that do not have nuclear weapons, like the Philippines, to help secure all nuclear materials from theft or diversion in 4 years.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Tags: Filipino protesters, Nuclear Summit, nuclear weapons, President Arroyo, President Obama, Washington
Steppin to 1 AM
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
1 AM -- a San Francisco Art Gallery focusing on Graffiti -- works with young artists teaching them the potential of graffiti art beyond writing on walls illegally.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Stimulus Watch, Video
Some Filipinos Still Afraid of Census
Filipino Express, News Report, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
La Visitadora: What Michelle Obama's Visit Means for Mexico
La Jornada, Commentary, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
In an op-ed titled "La Visitadora" (The Visitor) in Mexican newspaper La Jornada, Soledad Loaeza writes that there is more than meets the eye to First Lady Michelle Obama's visit to Mexico.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: La Visitadora, mexico city, Michelle Obama's, u.s. visa
What Americans Get in Return For Their Taxes
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
Many Americans might think of Europeans as overtaxed. But on tax day it is worth trying to figure out whether Americans actually get their money's worth for the taxes they pay, compared to what Europeans get.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Top Stories
US-Sponsored Arab TV Station Spotlights Women Others Ignore
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
Single mothers or rape victims rarely show up on Arab television. One program gives women challenging these taboos a weekly slot. The irony is it is a station funded by the U.S. Congress.
Categories: Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content
Tags: alhurra, arab women, television
Scientists May Sue to Keep Native American Remains
Indian Country Today, News Report, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
Scientists are contemplating a lawsuit that would challenge a new government rule requiring universities and museums to return culturally unidentifiable remains to tribal lands.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
China Struck by 7.1 Earthquake, 400 Reported Killed
Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
A Tibetan enclave in northwestern China, was struck by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake April 14, followed by multiple aftershocks, killing 400 people and injuring at least 8,000.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: 7.1 Earthquake, China Struck, emergency relief, reported killed
Univision Surveys Latino Gamers, Teams With GameSpot
Univision, News Report, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
Univision is teaming up with GameSpot to provide content for a new Spanish-language gaming site on Univision.com.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: CBS Interactive, Gamers, Gamespot, Latino, Ricardo Torres, Surveys, Univision, video games
Conservatives Back Immigration Reform
Frontera Nortesur, News Report, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
The conservative-evangelical alliance is promoting a new immigration policy that focuses on border security, family unity and an earned path to legalization.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Tags: christians, conservatives, evangelicals, immigration reform
Jorge Ramos: Pope Must Explain Himself or Step Down
Univision, News Report, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
Univision commentator Jorge Ramos writes that it is time to break the papal silence.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Catholic church, Jorge Ramos, Pope
Arizona Legislature Makes Being Undocumented a Crime
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
Arizona is on track to become the first state in the nation to make it a misdemeanor for a person to be there without legal documents. The unsolved murder of a rancher near the border was used to build support for the bill.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Top Stories
Tags: Arizona, Arizona American Civil Liberties Union, Bill Konopnicki, Dan Pochoda, Gary Thrasher, Glenn Jenks, immigration, Jan Brewer, John Kavanagh, Mark Spencer, Patrick Bray, Robert Krentz, Russell Pearce, Sheridan Bailey, The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, Tom Chabin, Valley Interfaith Network
Tacos for Immigration Justice
Impulso, News Feature, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
Taco trucks in Los Angeles are donating a percentage of their sales to campaigns that advocate for immigration reform.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Tags: immgration reform, immigration reform, taco trucks, tacos
Major League Baseball’s Japanese American Catcher
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
Twenty-six-year-old Kurt Kiyoshi Suzuki has played with the Oakland A’s since 2007, but he has never forgotten where he got his start.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Is Crime Down? It Doesn’t Feel That Way on the Streets
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
I recently heard the crime rate is down in East Bay city of Oakland. It doesn't feel that way on the streets. My 21-year-old brother who stays in Oakland just got shot at last week. I stay in Hunter's Point, and someone in the neighborhood just got shot at yesterday.
Categories: Top Stories
U.S. Seeks to Improve Relations With Mexico
La Raza, News Report, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
The White House continues to lead efforts to strengthen the relationship with Mexico, La Raza reports.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Felipe Calderon, improve relation, Latino Congressman, Merida Initiative, Mexico, Unite States
New Study Shows Confronting Racism Raises Self-Esteem
Philippine News, News Report, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
How people choose to cope with personal experiences of racism influences the distress caused by the encounter, says a new study of Filipino Americans.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: discrimination, racism, self-esteem, study
Trained to Fail
Colorlines, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Colorlines reports President Obama's green jobs program is training Americans for jobs that don't exist.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Tags: arra, green jobs, recovery, stimulus
Adam Carolla Apologizes to Pacquiao and Filipinos
asianjournal, News Report, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Adam Carolla, the comedian who made disparaging remarks against pound-4-pound boxing champion Manny Pacquiao and his country the Philippines in a podcast, has formally apologized.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Adam Carolla, apologize, Filipino, Pacquiao, sex tour
Now, Obama Can Pick a Justice with a Heart
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Obama has the chance of a president’s lifetime to follow his heart and pick the kind of Supreme Court justice who will protect the rights of the powerless, minorities and women.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: obama, roberts, scalia, senate judiciary committee, supreme court justice nomination, thomas
What Will Not Work
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Michael Cabral, at age 24, still hopes that rationality will prevail, though his faith has been shaken as he watches every rehabilitative program with the possibility of bringing meaningful changes in the lives of his fellow prisoners stripped away, eliminated in the name of economy. The question few are asking, and even fewer answering, he writes, is “What works?”
Categories: Law & Justice
Tags: beat within, inmates, overcrowding, rehabilitation, state prison
Magicians, Creating an Illusion of Change
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Dwight Abbott, in his late 60s, has spent most of his life inside California’s prison system. He has heard the promises made by California corrections officials over decades, and has little hope that anything will really change. He describes these officials as “magicians, creating the illusion” of change.
Categories: Law & Justice
Tags: beat within, inmates, overcrowding, state prison
Two Inmates' Views on California's Prison Overcrowding Crisis
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Two California inmates respond to the state's prison overcrowding crisis and a federal court order that could result in the release of 40,000 prisoners.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: California, Crisis, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Dwight Abbott, inmates, Michael Cabral, Overcrowded, Overcrowding, Prison, Salinas Valley State Prison, Schwarzenegger, Soledad, Supreme Court
Immigration Rally in Seattle Draws Many Asians
New America Media/ UW News Lab , News Report, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Last weekend's immigration rally in Seattle drew many Asian groups making a concerted effort to show immigration reform was important to their communities as well.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: asian, CIR, immigration reform
Rebelling Against Death in Ciudad Juarez
Frontera NorteSur, News Report, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Last week, Mexico’s Federal Police assumed control of local policing in the state of Chihuahua. But this does not mean the army is halting its operations in Ciudad Juarez.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Tags: ciodad juarez, ciudad juarez, juarez, mexican army, mexican military, mexico narcotraffic, mexico violence
UPS Fires 280, Some US Citizens
La Raza, News Report, Posted: Apr 11, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Union Says UPS Fired 280, Some U.S. Citizens
La Raza, News Report, Posted: Apr 11, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Politics & Governance
Tags: e-verify, teamsters, undocumented immigrants, united parcel services
Vigil in Bayview Addresses Black-Asian Tensions
World Journal, News Report, Posted: Apr 10, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: African American, asian, muni assault
One Vietnamese Refugee’s Experience on an 'Unforgiving Sea'
iexaminer.org, News Feature, Posted: Apr 10, 2010
This April marks the 35th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the Vietnamese exodus. Many boat people died trying to escape from communist Vietnam. Here's one woman's saga.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
Hmong Marriage: Is My Future Mine to Command?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 10, 2010
Getting married can be a serious challenge in the Hmong community, especially because many of its elders are very judgmental, according to the writer, and the bride price can be a major obstacle when one is young and struggling.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Red, Free and Naked
Hispanic Link News Service, News Report, Posted: Apr 10, 2010
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: flight attendants, madrid, striking
Turf Dancing for Tips
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 10, 2010
The recession has many young people strapped for cash. But the downturn in the economy has created an increase of creativity. YO! caught up with three San Francisco turf dancers who are using their skills to make money.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Latino, Multimedia, Video, Youth Culture
New America Now: Writing About Japan
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
This week on New America Now - Writing About Japan: A serial killer strikes in post-war Tokyo in Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace, In Color of the Sea, John Hamamura examines living in America as a Japanese-American during the mid-20th century, and Michael Zielenzieger looks at Japan's lost generation in Shutting Out The Sun.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: david peace serial killer year zero post war tokyo, john hamamura sam keiko color of the sea, shutting out the sun michael zielenzieger hikikomori
Don’t Toss E-Waste onto Curb: Environmentalists
India West, News Feature, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
80 percent of used electronics collected in U.S. in recycling drives ends up in the developing world. Now the US is considering legislation that would regular e-waste export.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network
How to Turn Your Life Around: Become a Rickshaw Driver
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
When I found myself facing destitute poverty and still sending out resumes, I decided to think creatively. I became a rickshaw driver.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: Economy, Innovators, job, Laid Off, pedicab, rikshaw, Young People, youth
New Rules on Oakland's Streets
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- we hit the streets of Oakland to talk to folks about the decrease in crime on the streets.
Categories: Audio
Tags: crime, oakland, pimping, prostitution, violence
Immigration Courts Swamped by Backlogs
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
Judicial vacancies and shortages of court staff, coupled with the increased detention of immigrants that started under Pres. George W. Bush and continues to grow during the Obama administration, are causing exponential growth in immigration caseloads around the country. Legal experts say the dysfunction affects the justice system and must be fixed.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: american bar association, Arizona, court backlog, deportation, immigration, undocumented
Philippines' High Court Rules Gay Rights Party Can Run in May Elections
GMANews.TV, News Report, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Politics & Governance
Tags: elections, gay rights, party, philippines
Chinese Man Released After ICE Arrest
World Journal, News Report, Posted: Apr 08, 2010
According to the World Journal, a Chinese man who was illegally arrested by Long Beach Police on the eve of Chinese New Year, and later handed over to the ICE, was finally released last week.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: abuse, chinese man, disabled immigrants, ICE Arrest, world journal
Congressional Caucus to Oppose Immigration Reform
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 08, 2010
A group of congressional lawmakers has formed a new caucus, intent on drawing a connection between undocumented immigration and unemployment in the United States.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: congressional caucus, Gross Domestic Product, immigration reform, oppose
Haitian Women Demand Role in Rebuilding Their Country
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 08, 2010
Almost three months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, women advocates and UN officials are increasingly worried that Haitian women are being sidelined in national relief and reconstruction efforts.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: displacement camps, earthquake, haiti, madre, united nations, women's equality
Appointment of Archbishop Gomez Is a Nod to Mexican Faithful
La Opinión, Editorial, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
The naming of a Mexican-born religious leader as Archbishop of Los Angeles signals a recognition of a community that makes up a large and devoted part of the Catholic faithful, write editors of La Opinión.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Latino, Religion
Tags: jose gomez, la archbishop, latino archbishop, mexican archbishop
Why Michael Steele Won’t Go
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
Michael Steele, RNC Chairman, has bungled money and staff. He regularly mugs and grandstands on network talk shows, brags about being hip, a street guy. A handful of detractors is publicly calling for him to step down. That won't happen.
Categories: African American, Original NAM Content
Tags: Michael Steele Won’t Go rnc gop republican democrats race
400,000 Americans Lose Unemployment Benefits
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
An estimated 400,000 Americans have been left without unemployment benefits because the Senate failed to extend them before its recess, La Opinión reports.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: public benefits, unemployment
School Matters: Parents Must Be Key to Education Reform
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
Education reform is on the agenda of the Obama administration, but absent from proposals are serious strategies to increase parents' role in student and school success. But that can change.
Categories: Education, Front Page, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
First Woman to Lead Cherokee Nation Dies
Indian Country Today, News Report, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
Wilma Mankiller, the only woman to hold the title of principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, passed away on Tuesday morning at the age of 64.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: battle stage, cherokee, first woman
Archbishop Laments Violence in Mexico
El Universal, News Report, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
The archbishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Catholic Church, Antonio Chedraoui, told his congregation that Mexicans can't walk or eat safely in the streets of Mexico.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: archbishop laments, mexico, violence
Los, Las or L@s: Taking the Machismo Out of Spanish?
El Diario/La Prensa, News Report, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
An op-ed in El Diario/La Prensa argues that it is time to revisit an old convention in the Spanish language that reflects a "macho" outlook: The use of plural articles that ignore the feminine.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: Alfredo Garcia, las, machismo, Spanish
Media Briefing on Social Security's $500 million Settlement to Benefit Elders and People with Disabilities - Thursday, March 15
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
Categories: Events
Tags: disabilities, elders, Media Briefing, settlement, social security
New York Ethnic Media Watchdog Workshop April 16-17, 2010
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
Ethnic media workshops help journalists sharpen their skills, learn new approaches and add depth to their reporting. Award-winning journalists from around the country volunteer their time to provide training on topics such as the 2010 census, criminal justice, the economy, immigration and local government. Hands-on spreadsheet software training also will be offered.
Categories: Events
NAM Education Fellowship 2010 - Thur-Fri, April 22-23
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
New America Media and the University of California Center Sacramento, Public Affairs Journalism Program, are partnering for a fourth year to create an education beat fellowship program for ethnic media journalists in California, supported by the Hewlett Foundation and the Packard Foundation.
This program is made up two parts: 1) participation in a two-day training program, and 2) the publication of a story (or series) on schools/students in your community, and how they have been affected by the recession and state budget cuts.
Categories: Fellowships
Los Angeles Ethnic Media Watchdog Workshop April 9-10, 2010
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 06, 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 time 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.
Categories: Events
Tags: ethnic media, los angeles
Chicago Ethnic Media Watchdog Workshop April 10-11, 2010
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 06, 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 time 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.
Categories: Original NAM Content
Tags: ethnic media, workshop
25,000 People Affected by Mexicali Quake
Notimex/El Universal, News Report, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
An estimated 25,000 residents have been affected by Sunday's 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the Mexicali Valley of Baja California.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Obama Makes it Official: He's African-American
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
By checking the box “African-American” on his census form President Obama unequivocally and unhesitatingly made it official: He’s African-American.
Categories: African American, Front Page, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Tags: census 2010 demographic shift minorities ethnic media obama african american black
Kandahar Residents Voice Concern Over Planned U.S. Offensive
Al Jazeera English, Video, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
U.S. forces in Afghanistan are planning a major military offensive later this year on Kandahar, a Taliban-controlled province of more than 2 million people. Al Jazeera's David Chater travelled to Kandahar to hear what people there think.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Middle Eastern
Tags: kandahar afghanistan, taliban, u.s. military offensive
Filipino Couple in LA Charged with Human Trafficking
Asian Journal, News Report, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: human trafficking, los angeles, servants
India Attempts to Curb Deluge of E-Waste
India West, News Feature, Posted: Apr 05, 2010
India might approve unprecedented regulations placing responsibility on manufacturers in India to properly dispose of their used electronic products. The U.S. is also considering legislation to ban the export of electronic waste to the developing world.
Categories: Environment, Ethnic Media Network, South Asian
Filipino Sailors Among Crew of Hijacked S.Korean Ship
GMANews.TV, News Report, Posted: Apr 05, 2010
Filipino Sailors Among Crew of Hijacked S.Korean Ship
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: filipino, hijacked, sailors, South Korean Ship
ICE Feels the Heat
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 05, 2010
ICE Feels the Heat
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Politics & Governance
Tags: haitian refugees, immigration customs enforcement, immigration reform, obama
Are Pacific Islanders Built for Pro-Football?
Northwest Asian Weekly, News Report, Posted: Apr 05, 2010
Are Pacific Islanders Built for Pro-Football?
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration
Tags: football, polynesians, samoans
Latino Caregivers Get a Rest
La Raza, News Report, Posted: Apr 05, 2010
Latino Caregivers Get a Rest
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Latino
Tags: caregivers, latino
Leaving Home Reeks of Defeat and Selfishness
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
Leaving Home Reeks of Defeat and Selfishness
Categories: Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: family, money, moving home, recession, youth
As My Hair Turns Gray, I Move Back Home
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, News Report, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
As My Hair Turns Gray, I Move Back Home
Categories: Top Stories, Youth Culture
More Young People Moving Back Home
Yo! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
In the bad economy, more and more Americans are moving back home to live with their parents. Three authors from YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia share their perspectives.
Categories: Front Page, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
We Don't Want Just Any Immigration Reform
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
Immigrant rights activist Renee Saucedo argues that both immigration reform bills -- proposed by Schumer and Graham in the Senate and Gutierrez in the House -- begin negotiations with the lowest common denominator.
Categories: Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content
Tags: immigration reform
Race Discrimination Lingers in Housing
The Skanner News, News Report, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
Race Discrimination Lingers in Housing
Categories: African, African American, Asian, Caribbean, Ethnic Media Headlines, European, Indigenous, Latino, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, South Asian
Tags: civil rights, discrimination, fair housing council, FHCO, housing, oregon, race
Bill Seeks to Legalize Status of Immigrant U.S. Military Families
GMANews.TV, News Report, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
Bill Seeks to Legalize Status of Immigrant U.S. Military Families
Categories: African, Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, European, Indigenous, Latino, Middle Eastern, South Asian
Arizona Homeowners to Get Relief
Prensa Hispana, News Report, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
Arizona Homeowners to Get Relief
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Latino
Tags: Arizona, fraud, homeowners, mortgage, relief
Trốn thoát khỏi nhà chứa ở Cambodia: chuyện của một cô gái
New America Media, Interview, Posted: Apr 03, 2010
Categories: South Asian
Skipping School--Crime or Personal Choice?
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 03, 2010
The City of Richmond, Calif. announced last week that students who are caught on the streets during school hours could be fined or forced to appear before a juvenile court judge. Young people in the Bay Area debate whether cutting class is a student's right or a punishable offense.
Categories: Education, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Tags: cutting class, cutting school, ditching class, Richmond school, skipping school, truancy
Hispanic Babyboomers Hit Hard By Recession
La Opinion, News Report, Posted: Apr 03, 2010
Hispanic Babyboomers Hit Hard By Recession
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Latino
Tags: baby boomers, hispanic, recession
Chinese Voiced Angers on Safety in Community Meeting
Sing Tao Daily, News Report, Posted: Apr 03, 2010
Chinese Voiced Angers on Safety in Community Meeting
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: anger, Chinese, community meeting, safety
Call it 'Elections in Sudan'
Mosaic Intelligence Report, Video, Posted: Apr 03, 2010
In a report released on Tuesday, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group accused the government in Khartoum of using flawed census figures to draft unfair election laws and skew electoral districts in favor of the ruling National Congress Party.
Categories: African, International Affairs, Video
Obama Gets His Groove Back
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- Obama makes the world a safer place, Democrats get targeted with threats, and Obama makes a surprise visit to Afghanistan.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Tags: career jobs, democrats, Janelle Monae, obama, politics
Violence on the Rise in LA, NY
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
Twenty-two killings in just 13 days have put the LAPD on alert and brought a surprising end to the low crime trend of recent years
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: crime, los angeles, murder, police
New America Now: Stormy Weather, I Got Thunder, Paula West
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
This week on New America Now - A special on black entertainers: James Gavin talks about his book Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne, Lashonda Barnett looks at black women songwriters and their craft in I Got Thunder, and local singer Paula West reveals some of her favorite jazz musicians.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Gender & Sexuality, Original NAM Content, Video
Tags: james gavin stormy weather life of lena horne, jr, lashonda barnett i got thunder, paula west jazz andy bey oscar brown
Gays Can Act in Passion Plays, Say Philippine Bishops
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
Gay men and women are not barred from joining Holy Week activities of the Catholic Church, such as the traditional “senakulo” or passion play, according to an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: catholic church, gay, Holy Week, passion play
Philippine Election Fraud: The Fix Is In
Inquirer.net, Op-ed, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
Filipino-American columnist Rodel Rodis believes the new computerized system alone for the Philippine presidential elections in May will not get rid of widespread voting fraud.
Categories: Asian, International Affairs
Tags: Filipinos, Philippine presidential elections, Philippines, President Arroyo, voters
Caution Advised About Lead in Indian Spices and Powders
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
Recent reports about traces of lead being found in Indian spices and ceremonial powders has led to a lot of confusion.
Categories: Health, Original NAM Content, South Asian
Tags: Indian spices, lead
US Nurses' Group Asks Philippine Government to Free Detained Health Workers
Inquirer.net, News Report, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
US Nurses' Group Asks Philippine Government to Free Detained Health Workers
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: 43 detained health workers, hillary clinton, manilla, nurses, philippines
Stop Blaming China for America's Woes
China Daily USA, Editorial, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
The U.S. administration seems to be trying to convince its public of an untruth: that China is the true cause of America’s economic woes — and that China possesses “weapons of mass economic destruction.”
Categories: Asian, International Affairs
Shelters Predict Homeless Count to Skyrocket
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
Census workers hit the streets of San Francisco and other cities this week to count the number of homeless -- the hardest population to track. For shelters, where the waiting lists have gotten longer and longer, an official count of a higher homeless population will mean more funding for their services.
Categories: Top Stories
Tags: homeless census, homeless count, homeless san francisco, homeless shelters, how many homeless are there in sf
Clampdown on Knives Ahead of Shanghai World Expo
World Journal, News Report, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
Clampdown on Knives Ahead of Shanghai World Expo
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines
Tags: clampdown, knives, shanghai, world expo
A Doctor's Word: How to Keep Your Blood Pressure Down
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
High blood pressure is rampant, and it’s one of the most common reasons why people develop strokes, heart problems, and kidney failure. But if you make necessary lifestyle modifications -- and take prescribed medications you can overcome it, writes Dr. Erin Marcus in her Doctor's Word column.
Categories: Health, Original NAM Content
Tags: blood pressure, doctor's word, health attack, stroke
Supreme Court Gives Immigrants New Rights
RaceWire, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 01, 2010
The ruling in Padilla v. Kentucky requires defense attorneys to accurately advise their non-citizen clients of the potential immigration consequences of pleading guilty to a crime.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration
Tags: immigration, supreme court
Mixed-Race Numbers Expected to Increase on 2010 Census
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 01, 2010
For the first time, the Census Bureau will have information from two decennials to analyze how multiracial self-reporting translates over age groups and gender.
Categories: Intersections, Original NAM Content
Tags: census 2010, census race question, mixed race census, mized race census
India's Only Condom Bar Shuts Down
IANS, News Report, Posted: Apr 01, 2010
India's only condom bar generated international attention but recently shut down, a victim of official prudishness, reports the Indo Asian News Service.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines
Health Care Reform - A Step Forward But Long Road Ahead
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 01, 2010
Now that the health care reform bill has been signed into law, “health reform anxiety” is setting in as Americans are trying to learn what the changes will mean for their lives. Here are some of the key advances--and disappointments— of special interest to racial and ethnic groups.
Categories: African, African American, Asian, Elders, European, Health, Indigenous, Latino, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: health reform