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A Labor Leader and a Banker Walk Into a Boardroom…

By Amy Hanauer, Founding executive director of Policy Matters Ohio, At a board meeting early…

Still Broken Systems: Medical Deportation and the Shortcomings of Immigration and Health Reform

Written by Shena Elrington, Director of Health Justice at New York Lawyers for the Public…

How to Bail Out Main Street

By Amie Fishman, East Bay Housing Organizations History will soon define the ongoing foreclosure crisis…

Oakland Reveals the Impact of Homeowners Steered into Short Sales

By ACCE Home Defenders League & East Bay MoveOn, While banks want us to believe…

In Neighborhoods of Color, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

By Sharon Kinlaw and Steve King Generation after generation, we have seen the destruction of…

Improving Language Access Can Prevent Foreclosures

By Jane Duong, National CAPACD Seventy-one percent of Asian-Americans and 77% of Latinos speak a…

Securing Equal Access to Foreclosure Relief for Communities of Color

By Kevin Stein & Kristina Bedrossian, California Reinvestment Coalition   Neighborhoods of color are still…

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Shocking Blacks into Action Against Violence

By Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Staff Writer, originally posted on Philly.com   ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / DAILY NEWS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Nicholas “Sixx” King donned a KKK costume last week to draw attention to the epidemic of black-on-black violence.   I’M SURPRISED that Nicholas “Sixx” King didn’t get his butt whupped last week when he walked…

Complicit in Killing the Earth: Of Pepsi Challenges and Democrats and Republicans

Cross-posted from our friends at Indian Country Today A few months ago—right up until Election Day—many of our people messaged and pontificated like crazy to point out that there are serious and profound differences between the two political parties. This past election was presented as the ultimate Pepsi Challenge©; in a blind-folded taste test, Native…

Two Americans: Two Citizens Face to Face at Each End of the Immigration Debate

New documentary explores local enforcement of immigration laws and the separation of families in Maricopa County, Arizona. Originally published in Barriozona Magazine Phoenix, Arizona – A new documentary about immigration in Maricopa County, Arizona produced in the place known as “ground zero” of the immigration debate was presented in a Phoenix theater on May 31. Two…

Remembering the hidden victims of 9/11

  By Chandra S. Bhatnagar, For all New Yorkers, the attacks of September 11th, 2001 are indelibly etched in our collective memory.  The chaos, confusion, and sadness that pervaded, the emotional phone calls made and received, the uncertainty about what was yet to happen – all of these recollections are still fresh in our mind’s…

Uri Avnery on Israel and Palestine

  Uri Avnery is an Israeli peace activist, journalist and writer.  He is famous for crossing the lines during the Battle of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on July, 3, 1982. This was the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is also the founder of the Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc)…

Women

The Violence Against Women Act: Why Most Republicans In The House Say It’s Ok To Rape, Idle No More And Gun Rights

Introduction: Of Gun Rights And Politics There is a fundamental difference between “leadership”/“helping people,” and “politics.” Yet, most folks tend to conflate the 3 terms and pretend that they’re inextricably linked or even synonymous. They’re not the same. “Leadership” is…

Abandoned Babies & Terrible Mothers: Media Coverage Bias

By  @BalancingJane, A tragedy has unfolded in my city. Last week, a six-month-old baby (who…

Less Money, More Problems

Less Money, More Problems

I think I might be a 47-percenter. Or at least, maybe, honorary. I went to…

“Holding it Down for Women.”: Nicki Minaj and the Problem of Gender Inequity in Hip Hop

By Austin C. McCoy, On June 3, 2012, Hot97 DJ Peter Rosenberg took to the…

Criminal Justice

Race and Death: Breathing While Black

By Tom Rudd, Director of Education and Emerging Research, Kirwan Institute, Death is inevitable. In…

Implicit Bias and (Mis)Perceptions

Implicit Bias and (Mis)Perceptions

A month after his passing, Trayvon Martin’s untimely death at age 17 continues to saturate…

Black Men, Boys Deserve Better

By Tristan Wilkerson, My youngest brother turned 19 yesterday.  He is young, athletic, smart, respectful, charming,…

Another Real Tragedy in the Trayvon Martin Story

Another Real Tragedy in the Trayvon Martin Story

By now everyone is familiar with the story of 17-year old Trayvon Martin.  Visiting a family friend with his father, Trayvon fatefully walked to the corner store for an ice tea and skittles and never again would see his friends…

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