Joe Arpaio Launches “Air Posse” to Hunt Immigrants at Border
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Mar 31, 2011
On Tuesday Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced the launch of “Operation Desert Sky,” an airborne version of his controversial crime sweeps.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Law & Justice
Tags: aliens, arizona, arizonaodio, arpaio, border, documented, immigration, justice, law, mexico, police, racism, undocumented
New America Now: Wal-Mart Class-Action Suit
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 29, 2011
New America Now speaks with one of the lawyers representing the women in a giant sex-discrimination suit against Wal-Mart.
Categories: African American, Asian, Audio, Economy, Gender & Sexuality, Latino, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content
Tags: advancement, arcelia hurtado, bettydukes, bias, class action, competitors, equal, female, gender, irma herrera, management, opportunity, pay, unequal, wal, women
Broussard Bursts into Laughter Describing 2007 Slaying
Chauncey Bailey Project, News Report, Posted: Mar 29, 2011
Devaughndre Broussard recounted in chilling detail Monday how he later staked out Chauncey Bailey before assassinating the journalist.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: Bey IV, Black Muslim bakery, Chauncey Bailey, key witness, murder, trial
Too Many Eligible Asians Fail to Apply for Citizenship
New America Media, Video, Posted: Mar 25, 2011
There are over 800,000 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California who are eligible for citizenship but haven't been naturalized.
Categories: Asian, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories, Video
Tags: asian, citizenship, immigration
This Week on New America Now
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 25, 2011
Libyan diaspora's helping hand, Asian & Hispanic numbers in US Census surprise, India's Census, Wal-Mart class-action, Iran Film Series, Arabs Gone Wild
Categories: African, African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Science & Technology, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: arab, arab american, arabs gone wild, asian, bias, censorship, census, class action, cobb's comedy club, comedy, equal, female, film, gender, hamid naficy, hispanic, humanitarian, india, iran, jafar panahi, libya, maysoon zayid, pay, unequal, wal-mart, women, world medical camp, world medical camp libya, yerba buena center for the arts
Census: Latino, Asian Population Soars 43 Percent Across U.S.
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 25, 2011
Huge gains by minority groups—especially in the South and West—sets up contentious political battles over redistricting, with GOP-leaning states gaining the most Latinos
Categories: African American, Asian, Ethnicities, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: AfricanAmericans, Asians, blacks, Census, Detroit, Latinos, redistricting
NNPA to Champion Pardon for Wilmington Ten
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 24, 2011
Though The Wilmington Ten eventually were freed and their sentences commuted by North Carolina’s governor, they never received a formal “pardon of innocence.”
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: black, justice, law, north carolina, pardon, sentencings, wiimington ten
Restorative Justice Takes On West Oakland Schools
New America Media, Video, Posted: Mar 24, 2011
Oakland backed a restorative justice pilot project at Cole Middle School, a move that is credited with radically improved attendance rates.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Law & Justice
Tags: blacks, california, drop out, education, high school, minorities, oakland, school
Why the Wal-Mart Case Is So Important to Women, Minorities
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Mar 23, 2011
With unions under siege, class-action lawsuits are one of the few ways low-wage workers can level the playing field with employers.
Tags: bettydukes, classaction, sexdiscrimination, supremecourt, unions, wal-mart, walmart
Shell from Murder Weapon Found in Bey IV's Bedroom
Chauncey Bailey Project, News Report, Posted: Mar 22, 2011
A spent shotgun shell fired from the gun used to kill journalist Chauncey Bailey in 2007 and was found in the bedroom of Yusuf Bey IV.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: Black Muslim Bakery, chauncey bailey, trial, Yusuf Bey IV
Chauncey Bailey Murder Trial Begins
Chaunceybaileyproject.org, News Report, Posted: Mar 22, 2011
Seven men and five women were chosen Monday after 18 rounds of peremptory challenges that took about 20 minutes. Five alternates were also chosen.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media Headlines, Law & Justice
Activists Take Wait-and-See Attitude About New Orleans Police Report
Black America Web, News Report, Posted: Mar 21, 2011
New Orleans police officers have often used deadly force without justification and repeatedly made unconstitutional arrests.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: department, justice, new orleans, police, profiling, racial, report
African American Homicides on the Rise in NYC
Amsterdam News, News Report, Posted: Mar 21, 2011
Brooklyn was labeled the deadliest borough, having 24 percent of the city’s homicides, specifically in the East New York neighborhood.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Law & Justice, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: african americans, brooklyn, homicides, increase, nyc
Attack on Libya: Why Odyssey Dawn Is Doomed
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 20, 2011
The first engagement in a "limited action", as described by President Barack Obama, is not being fully revealed in its embarrassing details.
Categories: African, Asian, Eye on Egypt , International Affairs, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: al qaeda, barbary, barbary war, dawn, gaddafi, gaddhafi, greek, homer, libya, moamar, muammar, obama, odyssey, qaddafi, qaddhafi, qatar, stephen decatur, tripolitan, tunisia, united states
Vietnamese Marijuana Growers Through the Eyes of Their Defense Attorney
iexaminer, News Report, Posted: Mar 20, 2011
A Seattle-area defense attorney who services the majority of these cases, Khanh Tran, believes the Vietnamese community gets a bad rap.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Law & Justice
Tags: marijuana, seattle, vietnamese. trials
Regime Change: In Libya, Call a Spade a Spade
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 19, 2011
To say intervention in Libya is anything but militarized regime change keeps the door open for the U.S. Big Stick that has cost countless lives.
Categories: International Affairs, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
United States's First-Ever Universal Period Review by the UN
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 18, 2011
For the first time ever, the United States's own human rights record will be reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Categories: African, African American, Asian, European, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Immigration, International Affairs, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: human rights, human rights council, iran, troika, united nations, united states, universal period review
This Week on New America Now: Nuclear Disaster, Iranian New Year, and the New Jim Crow
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 18, 2011
New America Now covers the nuclear disaster in Japan and its radiation fall-out, Iranian New Year, the new Jim Crow, and a new film about Indian surrogacy.
Categories: African, African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Environment, European, Health, Immigration, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Science & Technology, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: california, disaster, india, iran, iranian, jim crow, made in india, michael lukas, michelle alexander, new year, norooz, noruz, nowrooz, nowruz, nuclear, oracle of stamboul, radiation, rebecca haimowitz, vaishali sinha, yoichi shimatsu
The New Jim Crow
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 18, 2011
Though Jim Crow laws no longer exist, subordinate status and racial caste still remain for many African Americans, according to Michelle Alexander.
Categories: African American, Audio, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Tags: African American men, africanamericans, black, black men, colorblind, colorblindness, imprisonment, incarceration, irma herrera, jail, jim crow, lawyer, michelle alexander, new, race, race relations
Abused and Deported: Immigrant Women Face Double Disgrace
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Mar 17, 2011
Programs that mix police work with immigration enforcement represent a growing threat to immigrant women who are victims of domestic violence.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice
Motley GOP Contenders Are Obama’s Biggest Trump Card
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 16, 2011
For the new crop of GOP presidential hopefuls, recent history could offer a valuable lesson: Centrism wins elections.
Categories: Economy, Featured Columnists, Front Page, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: conyers, GOP, Obama, presidentialcandidates, presidentialelection, presidentialpolitics, primaries
After Six Executions, Family Flees Juarez—But Is Anywhere Safe?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 15, 2011
The Reyes Salazar family, long a target for violence, can’t pinpoint their enemy. But they suspect the Mexican government.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, War & Conflict
Tags: borderviolence, josefinareyessalazar, Juarez, mexicanofficialcorruption, Mexico, reyessalazar
Filipino Gang Leader Gets Life Without Parole
Filamstar.net, News Report, Posted: Mar 14, 2011
A jury recommended on Monday life in prison without parole for a former Asian Boyz gang member convicted of eight Los Angeles-area killings and 10 counts of attempted murder.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Law & Justice
Tags: 10 murder counts, Asian Boyz, gang, jury, life in prison, los angeles
Climate-Change Law: Why CA Environmentalists Are Fighting Each Other
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 14, 2011
Cap-and-trade plan, supported by mainstream environmental groups, has sparked a lawsuit by environmental justice groups because of its impact on poor people.
Categories: African American, Economy, Environment, Front Page, Health, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories
Tags: AB32, airresourcesboard, capandtrade, climatechangelaw, communitiesforabetterenvironment, environmentaljustice, globalwarming
ICE, Obama Cannot Build Their Way Out of Detention Crisis
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Mar 13, 2011
The continuing relationship with The GEO Group, which has a notorious track record of civil and human rights violations, raises serious doubts about the Obama administration's commitment to fixing a broken immigration detention system.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Economy, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance
Tags: asylumseekers, CriminalAlienProgram, detentioncenters, DetentionWatchNetwork, GEOGroup, ICE, Obama, SecureCommunities, undocumentedimmigrants
U.S. Arab Media Worry Hearings Will Worsen Islamophobia
New America Media, Roundup, Posted: Mar 12, 2011
Hearings on Islamic terrorism being held by U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. are deeply disturbing to journalists in Arab Media in the U.S.
Categories: Immigration, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Filipino Caregivers Welcome CA Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
"Balitang America"-The Filipino Channel, Video, Posted: Mar 11, 2011
Filipino-American caregivers are grateful that California legislators are recognizing their rights as domestic workers. Last month, Calfornia Assemblyman Tom Ammiano introduced the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights and if passed, CA will be the second state to enact such a law.
Categories: Asian, Elders, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Immigration, Intersections, Law & Justice
Tags: California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Filipino caregivers
New America Now: Fighting for Rights, Respect and Safety
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Mar 11, 2011
How International Women's Day has changed over the last 100 years and an in-depth look at reporting coverage of the drug wars in Juarez.
Categories: Asian, Audio, Chinese, Ethnicities, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, Top Stories, Veterans, War & Conflict
American Soldiers and Torture in Iraq and Afghanistan
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Mar 11, 2011
The facts and stories behind American soldiers and torture in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Categories: African American, Asian, Audio, European, Front Page, International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Veterans, War & Conflict
Tags: abu ghraib, abuse, adam gray, afghanistan, american, battalion 1-68, iraq, jonathan millantz, jordan, joshua phillips, lebanon, mental, military, psychological, richard boone, sexual, soldiers, syria, tony sandoval, torture, united states, us
More Korean Kids Ending Up in Foster Care
Korea Times, News Report, Posted: Mar 10, 2011
There is a silent and often unspoken tragedy growing in the Korean-American community involving broken families and the children they leave behind.
Categories: Asian, Law & Justice, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: adoption, DCFS, divorce, foster care, Korean, Korean community, Korean-American
Cambodian Immigrants Seek Healing in Khmer Rouge Genocide Trial
New America Media, Video, Posted: Mar 10, 2011
Cambodian immigrants in the U.S., traumatized by genocide, hope for justice, as four top Khmer Rouge officials go to trial for crimes against humanity.
Categories: Asian, Elders, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Video
Tags: cambodia, genocide, holocaustsurvivors, justice, khmerrouge, killingfields, polpot
Utah Sets Itself Apart from Anti-immigrant Current
EFE/La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Mar 09, 2011
Utah wants to show the world that it “is not Arizona,” by approving measures that benefit underground foreign workers.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Headlines, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: driver's license, guestworkers, SB 1070, SB1070, utah, utahimmigration, utahimmigrationlaw
Do Obama's Budget Cuts Mean Cutbacks on Justice?
Final Call, News Report, Posted: Mar 08, 2011
Advocacy groups, as well adult and juvenile justice activists, are expressing disappointment in the Obama administration's 2012 federal budget.
Categories: African American, Economy, Front Page, Intersections, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance
Tags: 2011, advocates, budget, ex-offeners, juvenile justice, obama
Lawmakers Accuse GOP of Inciting Tension Between Blacks, Immigrants
Washington Afro, News Report, Posted: Mar 08, 2011
Black lawmakers are pushing back over a Republican's contention that a surge in the number of illegal immigrants is hurting low-skilled workers most.
Categories: African, African American, Asian, Economy, Immigration, Intersections, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: blacks, congress, hearings, immigrants, low-skilled, racial, tension, workers
Transit Case Raises Question: Can the Poor Ever Find Justice?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Mar 06, 2011
Can victims of contemporary forms of discrimination and disparity find justice in our courts? A recent court ruling in a case involving public transportation suggests the answer is no.
Categories: Economy, Front Page, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: discrimination, justice, low income, poverty, public, transportation
CA Attorney General Moves on Church Scammers
Black Voice News, News Report, Posted: Mar 04, 2011
The office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris is suing businesses and people who allegedly conned more than 30 African-American churches.
Categories: African American, Front Page, Intersections, Law & Justice, Religion
Tags: black, businesses, california, church, kamala harris, scammers
Civil Rights Photog and FBI Informer Is No Hero
Black America Web, Commentary, Posted: Mar 04, 2011
Ernest Withers was supposed to be a journalist. His job was to report on the FBI and expose that agency’s wrongdoing, not work for it.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: civil rights, fbi, informer, photographer, withers
Hawaii Civil Unions Passes in Senate, Moves to Governor
Pacific Citizen, News Report, Posted: Mar 03, 2011
Hawaii civil union supporters are optimistic that a bill providing many marriage rights to same sex couples will be signed into law by the governor.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice
Tags: bill, civil union, gay marriage, governor, hawaii, partners, rights, same sex
What Keeps the Lid on North Korea?
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Mar 03, 2011
North Korea remains impervious to the winds of change that's sweeping across the Middle East and will stay that way for some time.
Categories: Asian, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: communication, dmz, fear, koreans, north korea, population, revolution, starvation, unrest
Former U.S. Soldier Told He Has No Country
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 03, 2011
After spending nine years in the U.S. Army, Ramdeo Chankar Singh now faces deportation.
Categories: Caribbean, Immigration, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: army, immigration, law, soldier, undocumented
Lawsuit Claims Tainted Alcohol Pad Caused Child’s Death
India-West, News Report, Posted: Mar 02, 2011
A lawsuit filed in federal court last month claims a contaminated alcohol prep pad manufactured by Hartland, Wisconsin-based Triad Group caused the sudden death of two-year-old Harrison Kothari, the son of Shanoop and Sandra Kothari of Houston, Texas.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Network, Health, Law & Justice, South Asian
Tags: alcohol pad, lawsuit, tainted, Texas, toddler. death, Triad Group
Who Are Those "Greedy" Public Workers? Blacks and Women
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 01, 2011
GOP attempts to break public unions in Wisconsin and elsewhere will hurt African Americans more than other workers, a UC Berkeley labor economist says.
Categories: African American, Economy, Front Page, Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: africanamericans, gop, governor scott walker, labor, public service workers, stevenpitts, unions, wisconsin, women
What Wisconsin Means for America's Unions
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Mar 01, 2011
New America Now's Shirin Sadeghi talks with labor expert & photojournalist David Bacon about what the Wisconsin labor dispute means for America's unions.
Categories: African American, Asian, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: african-american, american federation of state county municipal employees, asian, bill lucy, capitol, coalition of black trade unionists, congress, firefighter, governor, indiana, Koch, Koch brothers, labor, latino, national guard, national labor relations board, ohio, parent, pennsylvania, police, public employment, republican, rights, scott walker, student, tea party, teacher, union, wisconsin, worker
The Law of The Gun: Vigilante in Mexico
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 01, 2011
A video of an execution of two carjackers by Juarez police has many citizens cheering but some warn against vigilante.
Categories: Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: carjackers, crime, drugs, execution, juarez, mexico, police, vigilante