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
Dr. Conrad Murray, Not Michael Jackson, is on Trial
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Sep 29, 2011
One commentator says Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray should not be let off the hook in the entertainer's death.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: celebrity, death, dr. conrad murray, drugs, michael jackson, trial
NAM Radio: The Biography of Obama's Father
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 28, 2011
In utter contrast to his son, Barack Obama, Sr. was a man whose public image was politically incorrect and rebellious, according to a new biography.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: alcoholism, barack obama, barack obama sr, biography, dead, death, hawaii, immigration, journalist, kenya, kenyan, obama's father, sally jacobs, the other barack, the other barack the bold and reckless life of president obama's father
Journalist Beheaded in Mexico
Latino Print Network, News Report, Posted: Sep 27, 2011
Mexican police say killing of a woman journalist whose decapitated body was found near the U.S. border appears to be the work of a violent drug cartel.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: mexicansocialmedia, mexicodecapitation, mexicodrugcartels, mexicowarondrugs
NAM Radio: The Rise & Fall of the American Teacher
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 26, 2011
Sixty-two percent of teachers leave the profession in the first five years, even though they love their jobs. Something has to give for the American teacher.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: american teacher, bureaucracy, documentary, education, hours, jonathan dearman, salary, statistics, teach, teacher, teacher salary project, vanessa roth, work, working hours
Pomona CA Schools to Boost Students' Awareness About Bullying
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 25, 2011
Schools in Pomona, Calif., have launched a model art program to boost student awareness about bullying.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: bullying, california, education, ethnic, massachusetts, pomona, south hadly high, students, suicide
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
Don't Dismiss Ahmadinejad's UN Speech
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Sep 22, 2011
The Iranian President is a controversial but influential leader. It is easy for the mainstream media to dismiss some of the important things he said.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: #ahmadinejad, #UNGA, 9/11, ahmadinejad, ahmadinejad's speech, bin laden, distribution of wealth, general assembly, holocaust, iran, iranian, osama bin laden, poverty, reparations, slave, slave reparations, slavery, speech, un, united nations, wealth
Lessons in Freedom From the CIA
The Arab American News, Editorial, Posted: Sep 21, 2011
The CIA recently discontinued its advertising with Dearborn, Mich. based The Arab American News, "for undisclosed reasons."
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: advertising, arab, arabamerican, cia, muslims, spying
How Do Ethnic Media Say “Illegal Immigrant”?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 19, 2011
Before publishing a story on immigration, every editor faces a question: What term should be used to describe an immigrant who is in the United States illegally?
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: illegalimmigration, immigrantrights, immigration, media
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
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
NAM Radio: The Post 9/11 Exclusion of Ethnic Journalists
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 11, 2011
The persisting lack of diversity in America's newsrooms has left out the voices & views of many Americans whose lives were profoundly affected by 9/11 & its aftermath.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: afghan, arab, censorship, china, chinese, ethiopia, ethnic, ethnic journalist, exclusion, india, journalist, lack, laila al-arian, mainstream media, media, middle eastern, minority, misrepresentation, mizgon zahir darby, muslim, pakistan, palestine, portrayal, rong xiaoqing, sabahat ashraf, saqib mausoof, south asian, yayne abeba, zaineb mohammed
Israeli Embassy Siege & Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab Iconography
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Sep 10, 2011
The events and images of the siege of the Israeli embassy in Cairo go a long way to further the iconographies of “Arab barbarism” and “Islamic Terror.”
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: anti-arab, anti-islam, anti-muslim, cairo, iconography, israeli embassy, media, star of david, symbol
Growing Up Muslim in a Post 9/11 World
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 09, 2011
For Muslim and Sikh high school students, the post 9/11 America has not been an easy time.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: 9/11, bully, bullying, california, coping, high school, islamic school, media, muslim, public school, sikh, terrorists
Fox Sports Cancels "The College Experiment" After Racist Video
8asians, News Report, Posted: Sep 08, 2011
Racist Fox show does it again.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: accent, chinese, fox, murdoch, network, racism, show, tv, usc, wife
NAM Radio: The Dire Future of Urban Radio
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 06, 2011
The future of minority owned and urban formatted radio is now in question.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: bankruptcy, black owned radio, inner city media, joe miller, joint center for political and economic studies, minority, radio
9/11 Through New York’s Ethnic Media Lens
New America Media, Video, Posted: Sep 05, 2011
A decade after the terrorist attacks, New York ethnic media are still covering the aftermath of 9/11 on the city's immigrants.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: 9/11, 9/11ethnicmedia, newyorkethnicmedia
Social Media Widens the World—Even at 101
The Atlantic, News Feature, Posted: Sep 03, 2011
Assisted and independent living residents struggling with loneliness are learning how to use -email, Facebook and Twitter to reconnect with old friends
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: assistedliving, centenarians, depression, facebook, gerontology, independentliving, seniorcenters, seniorcomputing, socialmedia