Recently added articles from Colorlines Magazine:
Remember affordable housing.(EDITOR'S LETTER)
May 01, 2009; ... SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN before bad mortgage loans take down an economy. You have to convince people that they want homeownership instead of affordable housing. And before that, you have to sell them on the notions of personal responsibility and the free market ... and before that? Convince ...
Bailout plan hits the poor: banks are using TARP funds to make predatory loans.
May 01, 2009; ... WHEN CONGRESS HASTILY created and passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) last fall to bail out the financial sector, the program didn't offer any consumer protection against the type of predatory lending practices that led to the financial crisis. It came as no surprise, then, ...
Last-minute lawmaking: the Bush administration bashed immigrants until the end.(NEWS)
May 01, 2009; ... IN ITS LAST DAYS IN OFFICE, the Bush administration pushed through a round of anti-immigration policies that will affect deportation hearings, FBI records and worker visas. One of those changes was made by former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, who ruled that immigrants no ...
School zones up prison rates.(NEWS)
May 01, 2009; ... TO STOP DRUG DEALERS from reaching children, state legislatures across the country passed laws over the years requiring mandatory prison time for people convicted of selling drugs near schools. In Massachusetts, for example, a person arrested on drug charges within 1,000 feet of a school ...
HPV vaccine mandate.(NEWS)
May 01, 2009; ... A FEDERAL MANDATE that was passed last year requires an HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine for immigrant women between the ages of 11 and 26 seeking U.S. citizenship. The virus causes most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts, but, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
Fed jobs fail Asian Americans.(RANTS & RAVES)
May 01, 2009; ... A new report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reveals that Asian Americans face a level of discrimination on the job at federal agencies that's much higher than what's being reported. Close to 32 percent of Asian and Pacific Islanders say they are unfairly treated at work, ...
Tennessee senator to foster kids: no homes for you.(RANTS & RAVES)
May 01, 2009; ... Senator Paul Stanley introduced a bill in the Tennessee State Assembly to ban unmarried couples from adopting foster kids. The subtext of the bill's language is that gays and lesbians, who are not allowed to marry in Tennessee, are unfit parents, but the bill would also include ...
Racial profiling caught on camera.(RANTS & RAVES)
May 01, 2009; ... When ICE descended on a 7-Eleven in Baltimore and rounded up 24 Latino men but let everyone else go about their business of buying Slurpees and hot dogs, the advocacy group CASA de Maryland obtained 7-Eleven's surveillance footage (above). After watching the tapes, the advocates took the ...
No, you can't attack immigrants.(RANTS & RAVES)
May 01, 2009; ... An Arizona federal jury has ordered vigilante rancher Roger Barnett (pictured here) to pay $73,352 in damages to a group of migrants he held at gunpoint and assaulted on public lands in Douglas, Arizona in 2004. During the standoff, Barnett also kicked a plaintiff while she was on the ...
Colleges offer to pay.(RANTS & RAVES)
May 01, 2009; ... The University of California Board of Regents approved a plan earlier this year to pay the tuition of students whose families make less than $60,000. Under the policy, called the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan, 48,000 ...
No homes. No jobs. Not even beds at shelters. Here's how families are fighting to stay together.(COVER)
May 01, 2009; ... LAST FALL, YOLANDA JAMES and her three children were lost in their own city. After foreclosure had forced them from their South Los Angeles apartment, they ran into closed doors at every turn. Aid agencies offered referrals to other offices, but no relief, and neither the shelter system ...
A new hope for black farmers? The Obama administration may redirect subsidies from white-owned agribusiness to small farms.
May 01, 2009; ... SPEAKING LAST NOVEMBER about his plans to address the economic crisis, then president-elect Barack Obama called out subsidy payments to "millionaire farmers" as a waste the federal budget could do without. He was reacting, in part, to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, ...
Muslim Women on Race & Class.
May 01, 2009; ... News about Muslim women in America is usually saddled with the same woeful tales--abusive husbands, gruesome honor killings and the occasional controversy over headscarves. The tales are poignant, political and sad. Which is why American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class and Gender ...
Race Records.
May 01, 2009; ... A BAND CALLED PAIN Broken Dreams (BiRich Music/Hiero Imperium) FOLLOWING A LONG, FRUSTRATING STINT on hip-hop superstar Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella label as half of the talented R&B duo Christion, vocalist Allen Richardson turned his attentions to creating a more ...
The crime? Humanitarian aid: an activist is charged with littering after leaving water for immigrants.
Mar 01, 2009; ... DAN MILLIS IS A VOLUNTEER with the border humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, which regularly leaves water and sets up aid camps in the Arizona desert for immigrants. Last February, Millis was issued a $175 ticket for littering in a section of the Arizona/Mexico border that's also a ...
Colorblind no more: a growing number of states assess the racial impact of drug laws.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2009; ... LEGISLATION PASSED IN IOWA and Connecticut will now require politicians in both states to consider how proposed drug laws may impact communities of color. Minnesota hasn't passed a law, but its sentencing commission has already begun taking similar action. The laws come after ...
HIV + immigrants still banned.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2009; ... BEFORE CHECKING into lame-duck status last year, former President Bush signed legislation amending immigration law to stop banning HIV-positive immigrants from entering the country. The catch? U.S. Health and Human Services still has HIV on its list of inadmissible diseases. ...
Civil rights groups condemn hate crimes.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2009; ... SEVERAL NATIONAL civil rights organizations stepped up to denounce a spate of hate crimes against Latinos. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The collective action--headed by the National Council of La Raza, the National Urban League, the Anti-Defamation League, MALDEF, and other ...
Locked out of college.(RANTS & RAVES)
Mar 01, 2009; ... While students are desperate to get into college, higher ed officials are working hard to keep them out. 'That's right. The president and board of the California State University system approved changes to the application process that will make it harder for students to get into the state ...
Insurance doesn't cover racism.(RANTS & RAVES)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Taneka Talley was stabbed to death in 2006 at the Dollar Tree store where she worked in Fremont, CA, but the store's insurance company, Specialty Risk Services, is denying Talley's 11-year-old son, Larry, his ...