New America Media: Law & Justice: September 2010

rabs, Muslims, South Asians from across the San Francisco Bay Area say they are fed up with being discriminated against because of their religion or appearance.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: ACLU, Arabs, CAIR, Discrimination, Muslims, South Asian

New America Now: Making Changes for Future Generations

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Sep 24, 2010

How women are helping women; why you should think more about pygmy's and the J-word you'd never considered.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: dream act, eden hunter, human trafficking, japanese, pakistan, Skip horack, vietnamese, women

Question for LAPD: To Reform or Not to Reform?

LA Beez , Commentary, William Gallegos, Posted: Sep 24, 2010

A call for a new view on use of deadly force in wake of fatal shooting of knife-wielding man in the Westlake district.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: LAPD, Mayor, Police, Reform, Violence

Arpaio Accused of Misusing $80 Million in Taxpayer Funds

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Sep 23, 2010

Sheriff's office is accused of diverting jail funds to pay for immigration sweeps and corruption probes against its critics—and hiding its misdeeds with secret bank accounts.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: abuseofpower, Arpaio, corruption, illegalimmigrants, Maricopa

How an Arab-American Hero Helped Thwart Chicago Bombing

New America Media, News Report, Ray Hanania, Posted: Sep 21, 2010

Terror suspect allegedly wanted to embarrass Mayor Richard M. Daley by creating mayhem in an area of clubs and restaurants near Wrigley Field.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: bomb, Chicago, FBI, RichardMDaley, terror

Civil Rights Activist Revealed As FBI Informant

Washington Afro, News Report, Dorothy Rowley, Posted: Sep 21, 2010

According to a report by Democracy Now, Ernest Withers worked closely with the FBI to monitor civil rights activists during the 1960s

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: civil rights, ernest withers, fbi, informant, photography

The Global Crisis: Gun Violence and Children

NNPA, Commentary, Marian Wright Edelman, Posted: Sep 16, 2010

The United States joins Somalia as the only two countries in the world not to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: children, guns, soldiers, somalia, united nations, united states

Background Checks Under Fed Scrunity

Black Voice News, News Report, Staff, Posted: Sep 13, 2010

With millions of adults having criminal records, a growing number of job seekers are being weeded out by criminal background checks.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: background, census. discrimination, check, criminal, records

Fear, Exclusion Prevent Haitian Americans from Voting

Amsterdam News, News Analysis, Cyril Josh Barker, Posted: Sep 09, 2010

Unlike in the United States, Haitians who aren’t living in their country at the time of an election are not able to vote.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: election, haiti, immigrants, united states, voting, wyclef jean

Black-American Muslims Speak Out Against Intolerance

Final Call, News Report, Ashahed Muhammad , Posted: Sep 09, 2010

The members of the Coalition of African American Muslims urge a rejection of anti-Islam hatred and religious intolerance.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: 9/11, americans, black, islam, mosque, muslims

Flush With Casino Cash, CA Tribes Won't Enforce Child Support Claims

Capitol Weekly, News Report, Malcolm Maclachlan , Posted: Sep 07, 2010

A complicated web of regulations prevents state and federal governments from enforcing support claims against members of "sovereign nations."

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: casinos, childsupport, NativeAmericans, tribes

Number 77: The Short Life of Katrina Survivor Desiree Davis

New America Media, News Feature, S. Howard Bransford, Posted: Sep 06, 2010

As the nation marks five years since Hurricane Katrina, the family of a Katrina survivor marks another anniversary - the murder of their daughter in Oakland a year ago.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: Desiree Davis, Katrina, Oakland homicide

The Conversation—Roy and Rodriguez on the Massacre of Migrants in Mexico

New America Media, Video, Sandip Roy, Posted: Sep 06, 2010

A look at two faces of desperation—the massacred migrants in Mexico and the flood victims on the road in Pakistan.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: flood, Mexico, migrants, Pakistan, Richard Rodriguez

Uncooperative Arpaio Could Cost County $113 Million in U.S. Funds

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Sep 04, 2010

As the Justice Dept. sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio for refusing to release records in a civil rights probe, a big chunk of Maricopa County's budget is on the line.

Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Intersections, Sports

Tags: arizona, arpaio, immigration, justice, lawsuit, maricopa, raids