Recently added articles from Colorlines Magazine:
When we're looking for answers.(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2008 ... I NEVER WANTED TO JOIN THE ARMY. But reading about the women from our cover story by journalist Michelle Chen, I understood where they were coming from. Who doesn't want to get out of poverty and have more opportunities? You see your auntie worried about the legal hoops of ...
Queer humor works.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Guerra, Maricarmen ... My friends showed me Ms. Anthony's recent humor articles, and I can't thank you enough for making this queer Latina feel like her voice is out there--and in such a funny and thought-provoking way. What a ...
Stopping the torch: where: San Francisco, CA.(IN FOCUS)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Jung, Alex ... EACH OLYMPICS BEGINS with the lighting of the torch in Olympia, Greece, and then it travels throughout the continents to finally reach its destination-in this case, Beijing in August-and commence the Games. As an international symbol, nothing else resembles its familiarity, which is why it ...
Silicon Valley shortchanges Latino Janitors: a union campaign goes after the high-tech companies but skips race.
Jul 01, 2008; Jung, Alex ... FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, California-based companies like Google, Genentech and Cisco have topped Fortune's list of "100 Best Companies to Work For." Google in particular offers its employees three square organic meals a day, a sandbox to play volleyball in, and on-site doctors and ...
Another chapter in the foreclosure crisis: cities start fighting the targeting of Black homeowners.(NEWS)
Jul 01, 2008; Regales, Jackie ... BALTIMORE FILED the first lawsuit in federal court where a city is accusing Wells Fargo, one of the nation's largest financial institutions, of predatory lending practices in violation of the Fair Housing Act. Three days after Baltimore's action in January, Cleveland also filed suit ...
Wanted: black online users.(NEWS)(Website overview)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... WHEN TIMEWARNER-OWNED Essence magazine announced plans to refashion itself as a multimedia brand with a new website, it was the fourth in a line of similar launches this year by media companies looking for Black online users. IAC/InterActive Corp, the media group that owns Match.com, ...
The psychology of a disaster: new studies consider unseen effects and access to care.
Jul 01, 2008; Jung, Alex ... MATERIAL DEVASTATION IS OBVIOUS. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the subsequent breaking of the levees in New Orleans left us with haunting images of destroyed neighborhoods. Indeed, three years later, the imploded homes and deserted streets continue to provide a physical measure of how ...
Back of the house.(CHECK THE COLOR LINE)(employers hire latinos as runners and bussers)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... WHEN IT'S ALWAYS a Latino male who busses your table and sweeps the floor and a white male who takes your order--and your tips--is it merely coincidental? The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York spent the last two years canvassing restaurants, setting up focus groups and sending 43 ...
Cut class? Get deported.(RANTS & RAVES)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... SKIPPING SCHOOL USED TO COST you a couple hours of detention and the wrath of mom, but for Winona, Texas high schoolers Brisa and Lluvia Amante, it got them deported. In February, the 17-year-old twins skipped school and went to truancy court twice. But when Smith County Justice of the ...
Blacks hit harder by recession.(RANTS & RAVES)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... WHILE THE GOVERNMENT defends its fondness for corporate bailouts-including the staggering $3.2 billion to Bear Stearns--the rest of the country is already feeling the effects of the looming recession. According to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute, Black workers will be hit ...
Somebody's been watching too much of the wire.(RANTS & RAVES)(Margaret B. Jones)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... BEFORE SHE WAS EXPOSED as a literary fraud, Margaret B. Jones, author of Love and Consequences, won critical acclaim for her memoir about life as a half-white, half-American Indian child in foster care and Crips drug runner in South Central L.A. Turns out Margaret B. Jones is actually an ...
American Indians to Chertoff: get off our land.(RANTS & RAVES)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... AFTER TWO YEARS of protracted legal struggles, Eloisa Tamez was ordered in April by a U.S. district judge to relinquish her Rio Grande Valley land to the Department of Homeland Security as Secretary Michael Chertoff moves on plans to extend the Mexico-U.S. border wall through her property ....
No carding for immigration or gender.(RANTS & RAVES)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... SAN FRANCISCO WILL BEGIN issuing municipal identification cards to city residents in August, regardless of immigration status, making it the second city to do so--New Haven, Connecticut, began offering ID cards in July 2007. Supporters have hailed it as a public safety measure that will ...
Cheating employers beware.(RANTS & RAVES)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... THE KANSAS STATE Supreme Court ruled last year that undocumented workers are covered by a state law that doubles the amount of money an employee can collect if their boss deliberately withholds pay. Since that ruling, the Sunflower Community Action group in Wichita has teamed up ...
Nothing virtual here.(RANTS & RAVES)(Virtual Money)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... IMMIGRANTS WHO SEND MONEY back home to their families are familiar with the price gouging of predatory wire transfer companies. Now there will be payback. In May, the Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action, better known as TIGRA, announced it had signed an agreement ...
Novel about ghetto nerd nabs Pulitzer.(RANTS & RAVES)(Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... THIS YEAR, DOMINICAN AMERICAN novelist Junot Diaz became the sixth writer of color to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the award's 60-year history for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The book is about a fat "lovesick ghetto nerd" tackling a 500-year family curse ...
Ramon Ramirez; A farmworker organizer from Oregon talks about producing radio in indigenous languages and fighting anti-immigrant policies.(Interview)
Jul 01, 2008; Jung, Alex ... The treeplanters and farmworkers union you helped found in 1985 -- Pineros y Camesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)-is the first in Oregon with its own radio station, Radio Movimiento: La Voz del Pueblo (KPCN-LP 96.3 FM). How are you using radio to organize people? To give you an example, we ...
Kicking kids out of foster care: a federal program to help young people falls short.(TO THE POINT)
Jul 01, 2008; Naccarato, Toni ... EACH YEAR APPROXIMATELY 20,000 teenagers leave the child welfare system. They do so via emancipation, which simply means that they have reached the state's age of adulthood and are being cut off from foster care with no further aid. Most teenagers in this situation have spent an average of ...
Home from the military: a third of female veterans are women of color. Here are three of their stories.
Jul 01, 2008; Chen, Michelle ... WHEN KRISTINA MCCAULEY LOOKS BACK on her time in boot camp, one scene sticks out: she's standing in the sun as blood flows down her wrist, hoping no one will notice her among the rows of trainees chanting and brandishing bayonets. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thinking ...
When an immigrant mom gets arrested: more women-and their children-are getting trapped by the intersection of policies governing deportations, prisons and foster care.(FEATURE)
Jul 01, 2008; Ong Hing, Julianne ... BEHIND THE THICK GLASS THAT RUNS THE LENGTH of the Yuba County Jail's visitation corridor, Tatyana Mitrohina's eyes glisten, and then fill with tears as she recounts the last time she saw her son. "During the visit, he climbed into my arms and fell asleep with his head on my shoulder while ...