Recently added articles from Colorlines Magazine:
The cost of Building Austin: construction workers, mostly Latinos, are literally dying on the job.
Nov 01, 2009; ... CONSTRUCTION HAS BECOME one of the most unsafe, unfair and dangerous jobs in Texas, according to a recent report released by the Workers Defense Project, which found that a construction worker was killed on the job every two and a half days in the state in 2007. [ILLUSTRATION ...
Sickle cell: to test or not to test? Colleges are screening for the blood disorder, but will this be another round of discrimination?
Nov 01, 2009; ... IT HAS BEEN THREE YEARS since Dale Lloyd, a Black student at Rice University, collapsed during a light football workout and was rushed to the hospital. The next morning, he was pronounced dead. According to doctors, Lloyd died because of complications due to having the sickle cell trait. ...
Asian-American women dealing with depression.
Nov 01, 2009; ... ASIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN are more likely than any other group to contemplate suicide, according to a recent University of Washington study. And this likelihood increases the longer they've lived in the U.S. Roughly 16 percent of U.S.-born Asian women have contemplated suicide in ...
White man gets asylum from racism.(RANTS & RAVES)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Which is more galling? That Brandon Carl Huntley (pictured), a white man from South Africa, applied to the Canadian government for asylum claiming he feared racist attacks in his home country, or that the Canadian government granted him his request ...
Latinas leave high school too soon.(RANTS & RAVES)
Nov 01, 2009; ... The numbers are stark: 98 percent of Latinas report wanting to graduate from high school, but 41 percent of young Latinas end up dropping out of high school, according to a new report from the National Women's Law Center and the Mexican ...