Medicaid Cuts Would Stunt California's Recovery
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 30, 2011
A new report shows that if GOP cuts become law, California would lose 28,000 jobs and millions in related business spending.
Categories: Economy, Elders, Health, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: congress, debtceiling, familiesusa, healtheconomics, healthreform, jobs, medicaid, pauldryan, unemployment
In Upstate California, Redistricting Alters Maps, but Not Latino Clout
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 30, 2011
Minority communities are growing in the Northern Sacramento Valley, but redistricting is barely on their radar, and a powerful GOP congressman looks safe.
Categories: Asian, Collaborative Reporting, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: 2010census, californiacitizensredistrictingcommission, farm workers, GOP, Hmong, Latinos, NorthernSacramentoValley, redistricting, WallyHerger
Why Obama Still Says No to Gay Marriage
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 30, 2011
Obama has been the best friend that gays have ever had in the White House, but his position on gay marriage is still evolving.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: gay, gay marriage, gays, homosexual, marriage, obama, president
Murder, Corruption and Katrina—Cops on Trial in the Big Easy
The Root, News Report, Posted: Jun 29, 2011
The trial of five New Orleans policemen for killing blacks in the wake of Hurricane Katrina exposes widespread corruption in the city's justice system.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media Network, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: bigeasy africanamericans, criminaljustice, harryconnick, hurricanekatrina, murder, neworleanstrial, policecorruption, racerelations
New Peace Flotilla to Gaza: A Voyage of Audacious Hope
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 29, 2011
As an American Jew, I am entitled ( to travel to Israel, become a citizen, and enjoy all manner of associated rights and privileges. Meanwhile, the people who are actually from the lands that Israel illegally occupies are not citizens of any country.
Categories: Arizona Watch, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Arizona, AudacityofHope, flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, WestBank
From WikiLeaks to SB 1070—The Rise of the New Global Hacktivists
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 28, 2011
In just a few months, as one expert puts it, the hacktivist group Anonymous "has gone from the background of hacker culture to the forefront of global politics.”
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Media, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: Anonymous, Blackblocmovement, BradleyManning, cyberattack, hacker, hacktivism, hacktivists, JulianAssange, LulzSec, Sony, WikiLeaks, WTO
GOP Ploy: Blame Black Joblessness on President Obama
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 28, 2011
President Obama responsible for high black unemployment? That claim by GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Michelle Bachman is silly, but the problem is very real.
Categories: African American, Economy, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: africanamericans, gopcandidates, michelle bachman, newtgingrich, unemployment
In CA and Other States, Black Migration Alters the Political Landscape
America's Wire, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 28, 2011
In Los Angeles and other large cities, the exodus of middle-class blacks could have a major impact on state and local redistricting and elections.
Categories: African American, Collaborative Reporting, Economy, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: 2010Census, African-Americans, California, citizens redistricting commission, LosAngeles, reapportionment, redistricting
Clean Water in Schools Crucial to Coachella Valley Students
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 27, 2011
For many children living in the Eastern Coachella Valley Calif., food and water provided at school is often their primary source of nutrition.
Categories: Education, Health, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: cleandrinkingwater, coachella, coachellaunincorporated
Mental Health Group Draws People Out of the Shadows
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jun 27, 2011
Mental health workers say they’re seeing an uptick in PTSD after disasters and depression linked to job and home losses.
Categories: African American, Asian, Health, Latino, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: depression, disasters, foreclosure, health, job loss, mental illness, National allicance for mentally ill, PTSD, violence
Mobile Tech in Classrooms Boost English Learners
New America Media, Photo Essay, Posted: Jun 27, 2011
Use of mobile devices in a Hayward, Calif., classroom puts English language learners on the fast track.
Categories: Education, Immigration, Latino, Media, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Photo Galleries, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: bilingualeducation, classroomtechnology, digitaldivide, Englishlanguagelearners, Hayward, mobiledevices, students, tyrrellelementary
Poet Meets President, Sicilia Tests Calderón on Mexican Drug War
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 27, 2011
Last week Mexico’s President Calderón met unintended victims of his crusade against organized crime. He promised some changes, but refused to alter course.
Categories: Latin America, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: calderon, drugwars, mexico, protestmarch
Al Jazeera Wilts in Arab Spring
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 26, 2011
By becoming the voice of its owners instead of the people it was covering, the once popular Al Jazeera network has wilted in the Arab Spring.
Categories: International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Al Jazeera, biased coverage, losing viewership, muzzle, silencing different views
Mayan Countdown to 2012 Spurs Mexican Tourism Industry
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jun 26, 2011
Mexico is hoping to attract tourists in the lead-up to Dec. 21, 2012, the date on the Mayan calendar that represents the start of a new era.
Categories: Economy, Ethnic Media Network, Indigenous, Latin America, Latino, Top Stories
Tags: 2012mayancalendar, 2012mexico, mayancalendar, mayancycle, mexicotourism
ACLU Report Slams Arizona’s Abuse of Detained Immigrants
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 25, 2011
Abusive conditions in Arizona’s immigrant-detention centers often deter immigrants from exerting their right to fight deportation.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Health, Immigration, Top Stories
Tags: abuse, ACLU report, Arizona, deportation, detainees, sexual assault
Double Jeopardy: Femicide and Disappearances at the Border
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jun 25, 2011
Mexico is increasingly plastered with photos of disappeared and murdered women. Despite protests, though, few killers are brought to justice.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: ciudad juarez, disappeared, drugs trafficking, femicide, justice, mexico, murders, violence, women
Undocumented Journalist Talks About Pulitzer in 2009 Filipino Channel Interview
"Balitang America"—The Filipino Channel, Video, Posted: Jun 24, 2011
In a 2009 interview with The Filipino Channel, undocumented journalist Jose Antonio Vargas talked about his life in America and what it meant to win the Pulitzer.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Intersections, Media, Top Stories, Video
Tags: Dream Act, Filipino Americans, Filipinos, illegal alien, Philippines, Pulitzer Prize, undocumented Filipino journalist, Washington Post
California Tea Partiers Revved Up by Redistricting Reform
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 24, 2011
Taking advantage of reforms, activists dominate public input meetings of the Citizens Redistricting Commission to demand a “colorblind” process in drawing political maps.
Categories: African American, Asian, Chinese, European, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: california, Census 2010, citizens redistricting commission, Latinos, political maps, race, Tea Party, voters, votingrightsact
NAM Radio: Wal-Mart, Hacker/Gamers, Dragon Tattoo Lady, Congo's Viva Riva
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 24, 2011
New Show: Supreme Court dismisses Wal-Mart sex discrimination case, hackers & gamers, the woman behind the dragon tattoo, Congo's new film noir.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Law & Justice, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: arcelia hurtado, biography, case, congo, congolese, discrimination, djo munga, dragon, equal rights advocates, eva gabrielsson, film, film noir, gamer, gaming, gender, girl with the dragon tattoo, hack, hacker, hacking, interview, lawsuit, memoir, men who hate women, playstation, pulp fiction, san francisco, sex, sexism, shirin sadeghi, stieg larsson, tattoo, there are things i want you to know about stieg larsson and me, viva riva, wal-mart
Eva Gabrielsson: The Real Story Behind Stieg Larsson
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 24, 2011
She was author Stieg Larsson's companion for 32 years and now she's out to tell the truth about the man and the mystery behind the girl with the dragon tattoo.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, European, Gender & Sexuality, International Affairs, Media, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: biography, companion, dragon, eva gabrielsson, lisbeth salander, memoir, millennium, real, stieg larsson, story, tattoo, there are things i want you to know about stieg larsson and me, trilogy, truth
Congo's New Film Noir: Viva Riva!
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 24, 2011
Viva Riva! is the first film made in the Democratic Republic of Congo in twenty years and the fast-paced, stylized film noir is making waves in the film world.
Categories: African, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, International Affairs, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: congo, congolese, djo munga, film, film noir, international, viva riva
New Wave of Iraqi Bloggers Cover Stories Ignored in the West
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 24, 2011
While Iraq bleeds, Western media have ignored heightened violence. And Iraqi bloggers—in English and Arabic--are increasingly important news sources.
Categories: Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: bloggers, blogs, Iraq, Kurdistan, news media, Northern Iraq, Riverbend, Wahda.net, Where's Raed
Grieving Dad to Meet President Calderon
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 23, 2011
A caravan of anti-violence protesters, led by poet Javier Sicilia, appears finally to have gotten the ear of Mexico’s president.
Categories: International Affairs, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: Calderon, corruption, drugs, Javier Sicilia, Juarez, Mexico, murders
Filipino Pulitzer Winner Outs Himself As Undocumented
GMA News, News Report, Posted: Jun 23, 2011
Filipino-American advocates for the Dream Act rally around Pulitzer-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas who revealed his undocumented status in a New York Times interview.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Intersections, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: Filipino undocumented immigrant, illegal alien, Jose Antonio Vargas, Jose Vargas, New York Times, Philippines, TNT, undocumented Pulitzer winner, Virginia tech shootings, Washington Post writer
Another Admission 'War on Drugs' Has Failed
The Final Call, News Report, Posted: Jun 23, 2011
The war on drugs has failed and international policymakers need to implement reforms now, urged a commission of world leaders.
Categories: African American, Intersections, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: drugs, policy makers, reforms, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, war
The Afghan Drawdown Is Long, Long Overdue
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
President Obama told the nation today that there will be a drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Categories: International Affairs, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Afghanistan, drawdown, military presence, no purpose, Obama, self-determination, troops
Afghan Americans Fearful of Quick Withdrawal
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
President Obama’s announcement of a speedy withdrawal from Afghanistan may not be welcome news for some Afghan Americans.
Categories: International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: afghanamericans, afghanistanwar, obamaspeech, obamaspeechafghanistan
McCain Fiddles While Arizona Burns
Al Día, Editorial, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
An editorial in Philadelphia's Al Día takes on Sen. John McCain for attempting to blame the Arizona wildfires on undocumented immigrants.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Latino, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: arizonafires, arizonafiresillegal, ArizonaLatinos, arizonawildfire, johnmccainarizona
Alarming Facts on Academic Experience for Young Men of Color
The Washington Informer, News Report, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
Nearly half of young men of color -- ages 15 to 24 – who graduate from high school will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead.
Categories: African American, Education, Latino, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: dead, graduates, high school, incarcerated, men of color, unemployed
Audit Finds That Tucson’s Ethnic Studies Program Is Legal
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
Independent audit conducted for Tucson Unified School District finds that ethnic studies program is perfectly legal—even as the district's superintendent orders program shut down.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Education, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Immigration, Indigenous, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: ethnicstudies, LaRaza, Tucsonpublicschools
The Ugly Politics Behind Alabama's Harsh New Anti-Immigrant Law
Equal Voice Newspaper, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
The new GOP-sponsored law targets children; turns educators, business owners, landlords and citizens into immigration officers; and punishes anyone caught hiring, housing or even giving a car ride to an undocumented person.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Asian, Economy, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: Alabama, anti-immigrationlaw, Arizona, e-verify, education, GOP, MickyHammon, undocumentedimmigrants
The “Black” Drug That Isn’t
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
Health disparities bedevil ethnic Americans. To make matters worse, drug firms lift sales of their products with racism, “ghostwriters” and other deceptions, and many doctors believe them.
Categories: African American, Elders, Health, Indigenous, Latino, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: deceptions, doctors, drug firms, ethnic communities, health disparities, racism
Dear Indians: Please Stop Treating Your Help Like Family
FirstPost, Commentary, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
When India signed on to the Domestic Workers’ Convention, it wasn’t thinking of the some millions of Indians employed as domestic help within its own borders.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: domestic worker convention, geneva, India, Indian Consul General, New York, Prabhu Dayal, Santosh Bhardwaj
The Hack Heard Around the World
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 21, 2011
The recent hacker attack on the Sony PlayStation Network has spurred a hacker free-for-all.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, European, International Affairs, Latino, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Science & Technology, South Asian, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: Anonymous, cyber, hacker attack, hacktivist, Lulz Security, Sony PlayStation Network
Supreme Court Tells Working Women, You're on Your Own
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 21, 2011
Despite a vast amount of evidence of wage discrimination against women, the court's conservative (all-male) majority decided to give Wal-Mart—a company well known for its union-busting policies—the benefit of the doubt.
Categories: African American, Asian, Economy, Front Page, Gender & Sexuality, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: bettydukes, classaction, sexdiscrimination, supremecourt, unions, wal-mart, walmart
Cain Plays the Race Card Every Chance He Gets
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 21, 2011
For a presidential candidate who claims race is meaningless when it comes to his candidacy, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain sure takes great delight in rubbing race in the faces of his white conservative backers every chance he gets.
Categories: African American, Top Stories
Tags: government handouts, Herman Cain, invoking race, presidential candidate
Water, Coming to a Public School Near You
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 20, 2011
A 2009 survey sponsored by the California Department of Public Health that found that in 55 percent of California school districts surveyed, less than half of schools provided drinking water during meals, and, in 40 percent of districts, no schools provided free access to water.
Categories: Education, Health, Top Stories
Tags: access, California schools, drinking water, legislation, Leno
Inside Mexico's "Murder Capital"
Fault Lines, Al Jazeera, Video, Posted: Jun 20, 2011
Once known as a model of economic progress in Mexico, the border city of Juarez has become infamous as the murder capital of the world.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories, Video, War & Conflict
Tags: aljazeera, ciudadjuarez, drugcartels, femicide, juarez, mexicoviolence, narcoviolence
South of Silicon Valley, Hunger Haunts California Town
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 20, 2011
An hour south of Silicon Valley, where executives flock from across the country for high-tech jobs, there is another migration taking place.
Categories: Economy, Elders, Health, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: davidbacon, farmworkers, hollister, hunger, migrantworkers, sanbenito, siliconvalley
Redistricting: DOJ Shouldn't Have OK'ed Northern Va. Map
New America Media, Editorial, Posted: Jun 19, 2011
In an op-ed, ethnic media from the Washington, D.C., area express their disappointment at the DOJ's decision to approve a redistricting map that would limit the voting power of people of color.
Categories: African American, Asian, Front Page, Latino, Law & Justice, Media, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: DOJ, NorthernVirginia, PrinceWilliamCounty, redisticting, virginianewmajority, votingrightsact
With Weiner’s Fall, Clarence Thomas Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 17, 2011
With the resignation of New York Representative Anthony Weiner, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas could be off the hook.
Categories: Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: anthonyweiner, clarencethomas, weiner
Ground Zero in Guatemala's Homicidal Drug Nightmare
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 17, 2011
Decriminalization would drive the cartels out of business and end the devastation that makes normal life impossible in Central America.
Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: business, caribbean, cartel, central america, cocaine, death, drug, guatemala, latin, mafia, murder
NAM Radio: Weinergate & Gender, Iran Hiker's Mother, Journalist Deaths, Mambo King Hijuelos, Ahmed's Just Like Us
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 17, 2011
New Show: Weinergate & gender politics, Iran hiker's mother speaks, journalist deaths across the globe, Oscar Hijuelos's new memoir, comedian Ahmed Ahmed.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Intersections, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: #weinergate, 2012 project, ahmed ahmed, anthony weiner, chauncey bailey, cindy hickey, death, divorce, documentary, gender, huma abedin, iran, journalist, just like us, mambo kings, mary hughes, memoir, oscar hijuelos, politics, resign, resignation, shane bauer, thoughts without cigarettes, weinergate
Mexican Human Rights Activist Gets Political Asylum in U.S.
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 17, 2011
Cipriana Jurado was granted political asylum in the U.S. based on her fear of persecution by the Mexican military.
Categories: Immigration, Latin America, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: ciudadjuarez, mexicanpoliticalasylum, mexicoviolence, narcoviolence, politicalasylum
My Addiction to Social Networking
New America Media, First Person, Posted: Jun 16, 2011
I tried shutting down my Facebook, but it wasn't long before Facebook won again.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Media, Original NAM Content, Science & Technology, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: addict, addicted, addiction, facebook, media, myspace, social, social media, social network, social networking, tumblr, twitter
A Social Media Riot Made for TV
The Tyee, First Person, Posted: Jun 16, 2011
This wasn't '94. Last night's riot in Vancouver was weirder, more violent, driven by a lust for digital attention.
Categories: Media, Science & Technology, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: socialmediariots, thetyee, vancouverriots
Mandatory E-Verify Will Cripple America’s Economy
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 16, 2011
This week, Congress will hold a hearing on a bill known that would mandate the use of the E-Verify system for all employers.
Categories: Economy, Immigration, Latino, Top Stories
Tags: everify, illegalimmigrantworkers, lamarsmith, mandatoryeverify, undocumentedworkers
U.S. Government Silent on Tainted Products from Taiwan
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 16, 2011
Food sellers in the United States are choosing to remove certain Asian products from their shelves, for fear that they may be contaminated.
Categories: Asian, Health, International Affairs, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, food
Tags: dehp, fda, foodrecall, plasticizers, ranch99, song-yi, taintedfood, taiwan, walongmarketing
California Prison Overhaul: Justice Best Administered Local
New America Media, Op-ed, Posted: Jun 16, 2011
California is on the brink of a massive overhaul of the criminal justice system. The changes could become a great model or a major disaster.
Categories: Economy, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: brown, California, criminal justice system, overcrowding, overhaul, prison, supreme court
Study Shows Black Children Consuming More Media; Mobile Tech Contributes
Black Voice News, News Report, Posted: Jun 15, 2011
As if black parents didn’t have enough to worry about, a new study finds that in some areas, black children are consuming more media than any other racial group.
Categories: African American, Health, Multi-ethnic, Science & Technology, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: consumption, media, technology, youth
Chinese Culture and the Politics of "Kung Fu Panda"
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 15, 2011
In the age of globalization, there’s a caveat that often rings true: You know your culture is a big hit when somebody else is trying to sell it back to you.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Chinese, International Affairs, Intersections, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, food
Tags: appropriation, china, chinese, critic, criticism, critics, culture, integration, kung fu, kung fu panda, panda, pho, rachael ray, steven spielberg, vietnamese
Reflections on Education: What I Learned From My Favorite Teacher
New America Media, First Person, Posted: Jun 15, 2011
One former San Francisco high school student recalls his favorite teacher, and reflects on the qualities that made him so effective.
Categories: Education, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: education, favorite, favorite teacher, group learning, high school, leon sultan, method, sfusd, teachers, teaching
NAACP Got It Right in Charter School Debate
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 14, 2011
No matter how well charters perform, the bitter reality is that public schools will always be the school of first and only choice for the vast majority of black and Latino students.
Categories: African American, Education, Front Page, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: BenjaminJealous, charterschools, NAACP, publiceducation, publicschools, teachersunions
Community Hero Keeps the Peace in Richmond
Richmond Pulse, Video, Posted: Jun 14, 2011
Bay Area Peacekeepers seek to help save lives by bringing hope and change to those that society has discarded and that have been negatively impacted by gangs and neighborhood violence.
Categories: Multi-ethnic, Richmond Pulse, Top Stories, Video, Youth Culture
Tags: Bay Area peacekeepers, gangs, Richmond, violence, youth
Latinos Divided on Obama and Immigration
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jun 14, 2011
Although Latino support for President Obama has increased, 42 percent think his administration should have given higher priority to immigration reform.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: DREAM, impremediapoll, latinodecisions, latinosimmigration, latinovote2012, latinovoters
2011 Dictionary of Slang: Bay Area Edition
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 14, 2011
Do you think you know all the local slang? Think again. Here's a list of words commonly used in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Categories: Media, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: bay, dictionary, oakland, san francisco, slang, urban
For Intrepid Journalists, the Most Dangerous Stories Hit Close to Home
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 14, 2011
The murders of journalists Jyotirmoy Kumar Dey, Saleem Shahzad and Chauncey Bailey highlight the dangers of reporting stories on home turf.
Categories: African American, International Affairs, Media, Multi-ethnic, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: india, Jyotirmoy Kumar Dey, pakistan, Saleem Shahzad and Chauncey Bailey, your black muslim bakery, yusef bey
Vermont Breaks Ground in Health Coverage for Migrant Workers
Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Jun 13, 2011
Vermont's pioneering single-payer health care law, signed two weeks ago, includes coverage for undocumented farm workers.
Categories: Economy, Health, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: healthcare, HealthcareIsaHumanRight, migrantfarmworkers, singlepayer, Vermont, VermontWorkersCenter
The True Cost of Oil: Revisiting the Conflict in the Niger Delta
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 13, 2011
As uprisings in the Middle East send the price of petroleum soaring, a symposium addressed the much higher price paid by the Ogoni people in Nigeria's long relationship with Shell Oil.
Categories: African, Environment, Front Page, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: americanuniversity, KenSaro-Wiwa, NigerDelta, Ogoni, Ogoniland, oilpollution, ShellOil
World Bank: Hillary Rumors and History of Disastrous Policies
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 12, 2011
No matter who runs the World Bank it won’t change the troubling fact that its policies have done more harm than good for poor nations and their people.
Categories: Economy, International Affairs, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: clinton, disastrous, earl ofari hutchinson, hillary, hillary clinton, policy, president, rumor, rumors, third world, world bank
"No One Can Do This Alone": How an Immigrant Family Beat Deportation
New America Media/Silicon Valley De-Bug, Video, Posted: Jun 12, 2011
Jeysson Minota, a permanent legal resident, spent four years in and out of detention over a vandalism charge.
Categories: Arizona Watch, Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Video, Youth Culture
Tags: AlbertCobarrubiasJusticeProject, deportation, ICE, immigration, vandalism
NAM Profile: David Thomas and the College Bound Brotherhood
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jun 12, 2011
David Thomas will be pursuing his higher education in the Fall, with help from the College Bound Brotherhood.
Categories: African American, Education, Profiles, Top Stories, Video
Tags: bayarea, collegeboundbrotherhood, mitchellkaporfoundation
New CA Redistricting Maps "Worst-Case Scenario" for Latinos?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 11, 2011
Proposed maps fail to reflect Latino population growth in the state and could violate the U.S. Voting Rights Act, civil rights activists say.
Categories: Front Page, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: california, communitiesofinterest, LAtinos, MALDEF, NALEO, redistricting
Maternal Mortality Rates Increase for African-American Women
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 11, 2011
Nationally, black women are four-times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than whites.
Categories: African American, Gender & Sexuality, Health, Latino, Top Stories
Tags: african american, black, care, death, ethnicity, hispanic, maternal, mortality, prenatal, race, white
NAM Radio: Al Jazeera's Arab Spring Coverage, Redistricting Guide, Vietnamese American Lit, World Diets
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 10, 2011
New Show: Al Jazeera's Arab Spring coverage, a guide to redistricting and prison gerrymandering, Vietnamese American literature, and world diets.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories, War & Conflict, food
Tags: al jazeera, arab, arab spring, around the world in 80 diets, bahrain, california, coverage, faith a'luisio, gerrymander, gerrymandering, isabelle thuy pelaud, middle east, north carolina, peter menzel, prison, prison gerrymandering, redistricting, reporting, reputation, syria, this is all i choose to tell, vietnamese american, what i eat
Poll: For Latinos, Immigration Is Personal
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jun 10, 2011
A majority of Latino registered voters said they personally know someone who is undocumented, according to a new poll.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Latino, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: DREAM, impremediapoll, latinodecisions, latinosimmigration, latinovote2012, latinovoters
Podcast: The Story Behind NY's Suspension of Secure Communities
Feet in 2 Worlds, Audio, Posted: Jun 10, 2011
Journalists discuss the politics behind New York’s move, and the implications for the Obama administration’s immigration policies.
Categories: Audio, Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Top Stories
Tags: andrewcuomo, immigration, immigrationreform, newyork, scomm, securecommunities
Bey IV, Mackey Guilty of Murdering Chauncey Bailey
Chauncey Bailey Project, News Report, Posted: Jun 09, 2011
Yusuf Bey IV, 25, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
Categories: African American, Collaborative Reporting, Intersections, Law & Justice, Media, Top Stories
Tags: chauncey bailey, chauncey bailey project, guilty, jourmalist, murder, oakland, yusef bey IV
All Despots Must Die: This Summer's Surefire Blockbuster
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 09, 2011
It's been years since a single Hollywood blockbuster has “owned” the summer box office. But fear not, ALL DESPOTS MUST DIE will revive the tradition.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: barack obama, blockbuster, despot, film, gaddafi, gadhafi, kissinger, michelle obama, mother teresa, screenplay, starring, summer
Next Steps for Ethnic Media -- Fighting for Low-Power TV
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 09, 2011
The local medium of low-power TV enables ethnic communities to have their own channels in any language. But LPTV has had to fight for its digital life.
Categories: Media, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: digitaldivide, fcc, lptv, media
Community Addresses Forgotten Violence in Bahrain
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Jun 08, 2011
Community leaders and activists in Dearborn, Michigan recently met to address ongoing violence in Bahrain and the minimal attention its receiving.
Categories: Front Page, Media, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Arab, Arab Spring, Arab-American, Bahrain, Dearborn, Michigan
Virginia's War of Maps: Immigrant Surge Challenges All-White Leadership
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 08, 2011
A suburban D.C. county known for its tough stance on immigration is being criticized for undercutting the voting power of its minority residents.
Categories: African American, Asian, Front Page, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories
Tags: latinovote2012, princewilliamcounty, redistriciting, virginianewmajority
Calif. Church at Forefront of Housing-Rights Battle Faces Foreclosure
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 08, 2011
Located in one of the epicenters of the California foreclosure crisis, Antioch Church Family could face the same fate as many members of its congregation.
Categories: African American, Economy, Front Page, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Religion, Top Stories
"President" Romney's White (Male) House
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 08, 2011
Bush managed to blunt criticism that a GOP White House is an exclusive white, rich, male club but a Romney White House could roll back the Bush clock.
Tags: black, bush, diversity, massachusetts, mitt romney, mormon, president, race, racism, racist, record, romney, white
Fierce Battle Brewing Over Florida's New Voter-Registration Law
Black America Web, News Report, Posted: Jun 07, 2011
Black and Latino activists say the law, passed by GOP lawmakers, would hinder people of color who attempt to register and vote.
Categories: African American, Asian, Caribbean, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: civilrights, DOJ, Florida, JusticeDepartment, voterID, voterregistration, VotingRightsAct
Will Huma Abedin Remain Weiner's Good South Asian Wife?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 07, 2011
Will Congressman Anthony Weiner's Pakistani-Indian wife stand by her man in the wake of a sex scandal he has admitted to?
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: #weinergate, abedin, admits, admitted, anthony weiner, clinton, congress, good south asian wife, good wife, hillary, hillary clinton, huma abedin, indian, pakistan, pakistani, scandal, sex, south asian, syed zainul abedin, weiner, wife
Fil-Am Miami Heat Coach Spoelstra Focused on Winning NBA Championship
Balitang America-The Filipino Channel, Video, Posted: Jun 07, 2011
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, the first Asian, first Filipino-American coach to make the NBA Finals took time at the beginning of the series to share his goal to win the championship .
Categories: African American, Asian, Ethnic Media Network, Intersections, Multi-ethnic, Sports, Top Stories, Video
Tags: Coach Erik Spoelstra, Dallas Mavericks, Filipinos, Miami Heat, Pat Riley
D.C. Mayor Still Mired in Misconduct Allegations
Black America Web, News Report, Posted: Jun 07, 2011
Sulaimon Brown accused beleaguered D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray of paying him to continue his fledgling campaign during last year’s primary.
Categories: African American, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: allegations, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray, misconduct, Sulaimon Brown
Nannies and Housekeepers on Brink of Getting Basic Rights
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 07, 2011
California is on the verge of granting basic protections to domestic workers, a largely immigrant and female work force.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, Health, Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: ammiano, domesticworker, domesticworkersbill
Peru Election 2011: Peru’s Poor Make Their Voices Heard
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 07, 2011
In Peru, the poor have spoken, and leftist Ollanta Humala is their man for president.
Categories: International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: brasil, brazil, chavez, election, fujimori, humala, keiko, keiko fujimori, lula, ollanta, ollanta humala, peru, poor, poverty, presidency peruvian, president, venezuela, vote campaign
Wise Investments: Financial Realities Face Black Boomers
Louisiana Weekly/New America Media , News Feature, Posted: Jun 07, 2011
As African American boomers head for retirement, few are financially prepared. But many can take action to keep their Golden Years untarnished by poverty.
Categories: African American, Economy, Elders, Fellowships, Front Page, Top Stories
Tags: africanamerican, babyboomers, louisiana, personalfinance, poverty, retirement, seniors
La Opinión Asks Jerry Brown to Withdraw from Secure Communities
La Opinión, Editorial, Posted: Jun 06, 2011
Editors of La Opinión are calling on California to follow the lead of Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Latino, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: californiasecurecommunities, casecurecommunities, jerrybrownimmigration, optout, securecommunities
A Mexican Poet’s March for Peace
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 06, 2011
After his son was killed, Mexican poet Javier Sicilia decided to lead marches across Mexico to call for an end to the drug war.
Categories: International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: JavierSicilia, mexicanpoet, mexicocityprotest, mexicoviolence, narcoviolence
Foreclosure Sale Pits Old Tenants vs. New Landlord
San Francisco Bayview, Video, Posted: Jun 06, 2011
A silent battle is waging between low-income tenants in a East Oakland apartment complex and the new owner of their building.
Categories: African American, Economy, Intersections, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: david and silver, displacement, fight, forclusure, oakland, tenants
Letter From Mexico: Amid the Drug Wars, a Stunning Economic Boom
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 06, 2011
At a time when the United States is confronting the possibility of a “double dip” recession, Mexico’s economy is expanding at the fastest pace in a decade.
Categories: Economy, Front Page, Immigration, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: Cancun, drugviolence, drugwars, economy, globalrecession, immigration, Mexico, Yucatan
Dispatch From Death Row: Troy Davis and a Nephew's Love
Colorlines, News Feature, Posted: Jun 06, 2011
The case of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis has become an emblem for much of what is problematic about a capital punishment system that is riddled with racism, economic disparity and error.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media Network, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: ACLU, deathpenalty, deathrow, georgiaprisons, NAACP, TroyDavis
Holder Does the Right Thing on Crack Cocaine
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 06, 2011
Attorney General Eric Holder has taken an important first—but not final—step toward ending injustice in cocaine-sentencing laws.
Tags: africanamericans, cocaine, crack, departmentofjustice, ericholder, sentencinglaws
Keiko Fujimori Loses Peru's Election, Remains Force to Be Reckoned With
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 05, 2011
Keiko Fujimori came close to becoming Peru’s first woman president, defying expectations as the multi-dimensionally diverse candidate.
Categories: International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: fujimori, internationalaffairs, latinamerica, peruelections, politics
Health Coverage Crucial to Latino Grandparent Caregivers
New America Media/El Nuevo Sol, News Feature, Posted: Jun 05, 2011
A growing number of Latino grandparents are lovingly raising their children’s children in their Golden Year--often at the cost of their own health.
Categories: Elders, Health, Immigration, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories
Tags: children, elders, grandparents, healthcare, immigration, latinos, parenting
New Evidence Could Win Medal of Honor for Black WWI Hero
Black America Web, News Feature, Posted: Jun 05, 2011
Almost a century ago, the incomparable heroism of Henry Lincoln Johnson and the famous "Harlem Hellcats" instilled pride and hope in black Americans seeking political and economic justice.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media Network, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Veterans, War & Conflict
Tags: CongressionalMedalofHonor, HarlemHellcats, HenryLincolnJohnson, WorldWarI
Activist: U.S. Guns, Government Failures Threaten Mexico's Future
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 04, 2011
While Mexico and the U.S. have squandered billions fighting the war on drugs, the real culprits are American guns and Mexico’s failure to ensure the safety and education of its citizens, activist Javier Sicilia says.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Calderon, drugwars, GlobalExchange, guns, JavierSicilia, Mexico, U.S.
Pentagon Using Drug Wars as Excuse to Build Bases in Latin America
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
Under the auspices of the drug war, the United States is returning to its historical pattern of using Central America and the Caribbean for its own military and strategic purposes.
Categories: Caribbean, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Belize, Colombia, counter-narco-terrism, drugwars, ElSalvador, Guatemala, Honduras, militarybases, pentagon, USmilitary
Good-bye, Gil—Reflections on a Lost Genius
New America Media, First Person, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
It was no secret to anyone who came across him in song or life that Gil Scott-Heron was two things: a genius and a junkie.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Front Page, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: GilScottHeron, junkie, rap, TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised
No Evidence of an Iranian Bomb, Yet the Attacks on Iran Continue
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Seymour Hersh has once again created controversy with a New Yorker article debunking the evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: IAEA, Institute for Science and International Security, InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency, Iran, Iranianbomb, ISIS, nuclearweapon, SeymourHersh
Colombian Singer by Day, Paid Assassin by Night
Hispanically Speaking News, News Report, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
With a successful career as a singer, and several YouTube hits, Colombian Carlos Valencia led a second life as a paid killer.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: assassin, CarlosValencia, Colombia, hitman, singer
San Francisco's Own: Comedian Arj Barker
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
He made his name on the hit HBO comedy Flight of the Conchords, and now Arj Barker is back in his hometown of San Francisco for a few nights of stand up comedy.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Audio, European, Immigration, Intersections, New America Now, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: arj barker, australia, background, born, californian, cobbs comedy club, comedian, comedy, dave, dutch, father, flight of the conchords, hbo, heritage, mother, parents, san francisco, sikh, singh, stand up
True Confessions: How I Became a Poverty Pimp
Oakland Local, Commentary, Posted: Jun 02, 2011
Here's how one urban dictionary defines the term: “Any social worker, do-gooder, social service agency or faith-based organization who comes into a hood not their own and plays at being the savior to folks that don't need savin’.”
Categories: Economy, Environment, Front Page, Health, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories, Youth Culture, food
Tags: communitygardens, foodjustice, foundations, Oakland, philanthropy, urbanfarming, urbanpoor
NAM Radio: Blacks & Obama, Attractive Black Women, Tahoe, Kung Fu Panda, Arj Barker
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 02, 2011
New Show: Obama & the black community, controversial study about the attractiveness of black women, Tahoe's history, Kung Fu Panda's critics, comedian Arj Barker.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Chinese, Economy, Gender & Sexuality, Indigenous, International Affairs, New America Now, Original NAM Content, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: african american, arj barker, attractive, attractiveness, barack obama, black, black puppet, black women, comedian, comedy, cornel west, donner, flight of the conchords, kung fu, kung fu panda, lake tahoe, loretta ross, native american, panda, president, psychology today, satoshi kanazawa, sexism, singh, sistersong, tavis smiley, unattractiveness, women
Cervical Cancer—A Preventable Tragedy for Latinas
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 02, 2011
Pap smears can prevent most cervical cancer, but Latinas often avoid getting screened—and put themselves and their families at risk.
Categories: Gender & Sexuality, Health, Latino, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: California, californiamedicalassociation, cervicalcancer, healthcare, hpv, latinos, prevention
South Korea to Fund Language Class in Bay Area Public School
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 02, 2011
A Northern California high school may soon offer new language classes besides Spanish and Chinese: Korean—thanks to the South Korean government.
Categories: Asian, Chinese, Education, International Affairs, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: california, chinese, education, highschool, korea
Why Herman Cain Suits Conservatives to a Tea
Black America Web, Commentary, Posted: Jun 01, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain resembles a younger, shaven version of Uncle Remus—which helps explain his popularity with the Tea Party.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media Network, Front Page, Law & Justice, Media, Politics & Governance, Top Stories
Tags: 2012election, BarackObama, GOP, HermanCain, Republicans, TeaParty