Students, Parents and Teachers Tell OUSD: Save Lakeview School
New America Media, Video, Posted: Sep 30, 2011
This week students, teachers, parents and concerned community members representing Lakeview Elementary School in Oakland Calif. protested it's proposed closing.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: budget, closing, cuts, lakeview, oakland, ousd, school
Protesters Rush Wall St. Rallying Against Corporate Greed
Amsterdam News, News Report, Posted: Sep 30, 2011
The movement grew when a largely Black crowd of about 2,000 people marched from Union Square to Wall Street to protest the execution of Troy Davis.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: 99 percent, corporations, greed, human, poverty, protests, rights, wall st., wealth
NAM Radio: Zahra's Paradise & the Iran Election Protesters
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 30, 2011
Every time Iranians pour into the streets to protest, some of them disappear. This is the story of one young man & the struggle to learn what happened to him.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: #iran, #iranelection, abuse, ahmadinejad, amir, evin, graphic novel, humanrights, iran, iran election, iranian, kahrizak, karroubi, khamenei, mousavi, prison, prison abuse, protester, rafsanjani, rape, torture, zahra's paradise
NAM Radio: Pakistani American Comedian Kumail Nanjiani
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 29, 2011
He is a television star and a top-rated stand up comedian, but Pakistani American Kumail Nanjiani hasn't let it get to his head.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: comedian, comedy, franklin and bash, grinnell college, iowa, kumail nanjiani, pakistan, pakistani, pakistani american, pindar singh, punchline, stand up
Through a Toddler's Eyes -- Growing Up Poor in the Bay Area
New America Media, Video, Posted: Sep 29, 2011
17-month-old Terreace lives in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco in low income housing.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: buses, family, growing up poor, hunters point, parks, projects, stores, toddler
Inside the Shadow Economy -- A Growing Underworld Bazaar
New America Media/Salon, News Report, Posted: Sep 29, 2011
Amid the recession, an unregulated marketplace worth $1.4 trillion undermines our economy -- and our future.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: economy, government, growth, los angeles, salon.com, study, underground
Inside the Shadow Economy -- Touch Me for Money, Life as a Male Escort
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 29, 2011
When "Edward" needs cash fast he relies on the one thing he has complete control over: his body.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: cash, economy, escort, male, oakland, salon.com, underground
NAM Radio: A Hundred Thousand Poets for Change
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 24, 2011
On September 24, 100,000 poets in 450 countries will gather to promote social, economic and environmental change.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: 100 000 poets for change, economy, environment, michael rothenberg, poet, poetry, poets for change, september 24, social justice
Troy Davis Protesters Occupy Wall Street
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Sep 24, 2011
Just hours after the Troy Davis execution, hundreds of protesters joined forces to occupy Wall Street.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: #occupywallstreet, capital punishment, day of outrage, death penalty, demonstration, execution, force, nonviolent, nypd, occupy wall street, protest, protesters, rally, troy anthony davis, troy davis
NAM Radio: Hollywood's Ukrainian American Star Vera Farmiga
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 23, 2011
Hollywood actress and now director Vera Farmiga tells NAM what it was like growing up Ukrainian-American.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: actress, debut, director, higher ground, hollywood, interview, religion, religious, ukraine, ukrainian american, vera farmiga
Pentagon Officially Ends "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Sep 21, 2011
Yesterday, 18 years after it took effect, the Pentagon officially ended the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy."
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: dadt, don'taskdon'ttell, gaymilitary, gayrights, leonpanetta, pentagon
Denial of Davis Clemency Sparks Shock, Anger
Black America Web, News Report, Posted: Sep 21, 2011
Barring dramatic 11th-hour intervention, Davis faces a death by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday for the death of Savannah GA police officer Mark MacPhail.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: clemency, death row, georgia, naacp, supreme court, troy davis
Are Schools Preparing Black Boys...for Prison?
Final Call, News Report, Posted: Sep 21, 2011
A recent reports on African Americans in schools states that Black Male students are punished more severely than their White peers.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: black, chicago, expelled, males, prisons, public, punishment, schools, suspended
United Blood/Crip Gang Draws Injunction from CA Authorities
Black Voice News, News Report, Posted: Sep 21, 2011
Hustla Squad Clicc is a combination of Bloods and Crips two of the largest and most violent associations of street gangs in the United States.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: bloods, crips, gangs, injunction, judge, san bernardino, violence
China's March Through the Caribbean Continues
Amsterdam News, News Report, Posted: Sep 21, 2011
This week Beijing unveiled measures worth $6.3 billion aimed at sealing better relations with the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: aid, caribbean, china, conference, grants, port of spain, soft loans, trade
Obama Medicare-Medicaid Cuts Would Pinch Rich, But Harm Other Americans
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Sep 21, 2011
Medicare and Medicaid cuts in the President’s budget plan aims to spread the “pain” fairly, but does pinching the rich equal less accessible care for the rest of us?
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: budgetdeficit, healthcare, medicaid, medicare, nationaldebt, obamacare
NAM Radio: Precious Knowledge & Ethnic Studies in Arizona
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 19, 2011
When Arizona Attorney General Thom Thorne was Tucson's Superintendent of Schools he was known for his inflammatory remarks about ethnic studies & students.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: arizona, ethnic studies, hispanic, hispanic studies, la raza, latino, latino studies, mexican american, precious knowledge, thom thorne, tucson, tucson unified school district
New Consumer Bureau Could Especially Protect Ethnic Communities
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 19, 2011
From foreclosures to payday loans, ethnic communities have a big stake in Congress’ battle over the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: consumerprotections, elizabethwarren, financialcrisis, foreclosures, predatorylending, recession
NAM Radio: Greek-American Comedian Demetri Martin Lets Loose
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 17, 2011
Greek American comedian Demetri Martin who stars in the blockbuster film Contagion, tells NAM what it's like growing up Greek.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: biography, comedian, comedy, comedy central, conan o'brien, daily show, demetri martin, greek, greek american, interview, orthodox, this is a book
Bad Teeth a Barrier to Health and Jobs
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 15, 2011
A dental clinic for low-income Californians gives hope to some, but exposes painful, costly state and federal policies.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: americandentalassociation, californiadentalassociation, dentalcare, health, healthcarereform, nutrition, poverty, publichealth, ravenswoodclinic, unisured
Rising Poverty Undermines Children and Dr. King’s Dream
America's Wire, Commentary, Posted: Sep 15, 2011
New census data show rising child poverty, especially for black and Latino children. England cut child poverty in half. Is racism keeping us from doing the same?
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: 2010census, centerforamericanprogress, childpoverty, englishpoverty, martinlutherking, racism
What’s Long and Hard on a Black Man? How Katt Williams Blew It
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Sep 07, 2011
My issue with the Katt Williams and Michael Richards incidents is not that they used hateful language or pushed racial buttons, but that they weren't funny.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: humor, immigrant, jokes, katt williams, mexican, michael richards, racist, rant
Texas African-Americans Advise Looking at the Real Rick Perry
Washington Afro, News Report, Posted: Sep 02, 2011
Perry's standard line is that he can do for the nation what he has done for Texas, which he says is create jobs. Black residents of the state, tell a different story.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: black, health, jobs, president, rick perry, texas, unemployment
Congressional Black Caucus Job Fairs Draw Thousands
Final Call, News Report, Posted: Sep 02, 2011
Thousands upon thousands of recession-weary job seekers lined up for hours at a time to attend each of a national series of job fairs.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: atlanta, congressional black caucus, detroit, fairs, jobs, unemployed
Back-to-School Shoppers Greeted With Shrinking Quality, Higher Prices
Black Voice News, News Report, Posted: Sep 02, 2011
Kids are preparing for their return to the classroom and the telltale signs of rising cotton prices and a sluggish economy are everywhere.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Son Pleads for Terminal Mom's Release from CA Prison
San Francisco Bayview, News Report, Posted: Sep 02, 2011
My mother, who was incarcerated in 1991, is diagnosed with fourth stage terminal cancer. She is severely incapacitated.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: california, jerry brown, mark leno, medical parole, patricia wright, prisons, senate bill 1399