New America Media: News

Taxpayers Spend Millions on Valley Fever in Prisons

Vida en el Valle , News Report, Rebecca Plevin, Posted: Oct 14, 2012

Californians are locked into contributing to the cost of treating state inmates sickened by valley fever. A yearly price tag of $23 million to guard and care for patients in outside hospitals doesn't even take into account what the state prison system racks up treating valley fever within the prison walls.

A Kitchen Is The Heart of A School

New America Media, News Report, Jessica Arevalo, Posted: Sep 21, 2012

Even before Congress passed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010, Bakersfield City School District began taking strides to make school meals more healthy and accessible, while increasing student exercise programs.

7 Killed, 3 Critically Injured in Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting

India-West, News Report, Sunita Sohrabji, Posted: Aug 05, 2012

An unidentified gunman walked into a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., this morning while the service was in progress and shot and killed six members of the congregation and critically wounded three others. He was killed by a policeman.

Fil-Ams Unite to Help Lone Filipino Victim of Aurora Rampage

Filamstar.net, News Report, Posted: Jul 30, 2012

The Filipino American community in Aurora is raising money to defray the hospitalization costs of a 17-year-old boy recovering in the intensive care unit of a Colorado hospital, after he was injured in the moving theater shooting rampage.

S.F. Civil Grand Jury Slams Restaurant Health Care Surcharges

SF Public Press, News Report, Barbara Grady, Posted: Jul 22, 2012

San Francisco’s civil grand jury on Thursday chastised many of the city’s restaurants for profiting from surcharges they add to customers’ bills under the name of paying for health care, and recommended that the city ban the practice.

Voter Photo ID Laws Have Harsh Impact on Poor, Elderly and Minority Voters, Study Says

New America Media, News Report, Khalil Abdullah, Posted: Jul 21, 2012

States' voter ID requirements pose a daunting challenge to many -- especially to people of color.

Indian Americans Most Educated, Richest, Says Pew Report

India-West, News Report, Sunita Sohrabji, Posted: Jul 02, 2012

A Pew study out last week says Indian Americans are the most educated of all ethnic groups in the United States, and the richest, as well.

In Egypt, NGOs See Funding Dry Up as Donors Grow Scared

New America Media, News Report, Amr Emam, Posted: Jun 10, 2012

A crackdown last year on pro-democracy groups in Egypt has scared off many international aid donors.

Gianaris to Introduce New York’s Voter Modernization Bill This Week

New America Media, Question & Answer, Khalil Abdullah, Posted: Jun 06, 2012

New York Senator Michael Gianaris spoke with NAM about the “Voter Empowerment Act of New York," and why it matters for ethnic voters.

Scholars Say “Unconscious Bias” Leads to Discrimination

America's Wire, News Report, Kimberly N. Alleyne, Posted: May 03, 2012

Leading social justice scholars believe that “unconscious bias” is what leads to negative racial stereotyping that can unknowingly prompt discriminatory actions and attitudes towards people of color.