Faces of Foreclosure: Family Won't Give Up
World Journal, News Report, Posted: Jul 31, 2011
With over 1.2 million foreclosed homes in the last three years, California leads the nation in total foreclosures. Yet we know little about the fate of those who lost their homes. Donna Vieira is one of them.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: foreclosure housing mortgage crisis loan modification homeownership american dream
Faces of Foreclosure: Senior Loses Her Independence
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jul 30, 2011
With over 1.2 million foreclosed homes in the last three years, California leads the nation in total foreclosures. Yet we know little about the fate of those who lost their homes. Ethel Gist is one of them.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: american dream, foreclosure, homeownership, housing, loan modification, mortgage crisis
Honored Arts Program Engages Ethnic Elders for Health and Vitality
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jul 27, 2011
EngAGE, an award-winning program in Los Angeles, improves health—and cuts costs—by bringing arts and fitness to low-income seniors of many cultures.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: arts, elders, health, irvine foundation, latino, los angeles, nationalcenterforcreativeaging
Dear Wells Fargo: Why Did You Foreclose on My Mom?
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jul 21, 2011
One foreclosure fight through the eyes of a 6-year-old boy.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: california, crisis, foreclosure, homeowner, housing, loan modification, mortgage, wells fargo
San Francisco Youth Respond to BayView Shooting
Silicon Valley De-Bug., Video, Posted: Jul 20, 2011
Silicon Valley De-Bug interviewed Bayview youth/community and young people on their thoughts and feelings on the shooting in BayView Hunters Point of the 19-year-old.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: bayview, hunters point, Kenneth Harding, san francisco police, shooting
S.F.’s Bayview Institutions Reflect Past, Future
New America Media / SF Chronicle / KTSF, Profile, Posted: Jul 17, 2011
One neighborhood, two senior centers. Will the residents become a model for achieving diversity, or will they remain two distinct groups?
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: adultdayhealthcenter, armstrongplace, bayviewhunterspoint, budgetcuts, elders, sanfrancisco, seniorhousing, seniors
Fil-Am Family Kidnapped in Southern Philippines
"Balitang America"-The Filipino Channel, Video, Posted: Jul 13, 2011
More than a dozen armed men abducted Filipino-American Kevin Yeatts Lunsmann, his mother Gerfa Lunsmann and Filipino nephew Romnick Jackaria in a southern Philippine resort on Tuesday.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Abu Sayyaf, Filipino-American family kidnapped, Gerfa Lunsmann, Southern Philiipines
Love to Love Yourself in Richmond
Richmond Pulse, Video, Posted: Jul 08, 2011
Richmond's RYSE Center hosted the LOVE to LOVE YOURSELF BLACKOUT PARTY!. The event was held to support folks from the L.G.B.T.Q. community and support pride month.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: L.G.B.T.Q. youth, love, pride, richmond
Journalist Vargas to Media: "Immigrant Struggle Is About Us, Not Them"
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jul 01, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas sparked controversy after coming out as undocumented in an article he wrote for the New York Times.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: dreamact, filipinoamerican, immigration, Joseantoniovargas, newyorktimes, pulitzerprize, undocumented