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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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