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Obama's First Year in Pictures
by Jorge Rivas   January 27, 2010
President Obama's first year in office was dominated by the economic crisis and bank bailouts, the healthcare debate and the war. We raised our eyebrows at Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance, but celebrated Justice Sotomayor's selection and swearing in. A...

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The State of Our Union: Tonight, Obama Speaks. Right Now It's Our Turn.
by Julianne Hing   January 27, 2010
Folks are bracing themselves for President Obama's State of the Union speech tonight--that or ogling the new iPad--but here at ColorLines, Tammy Johnson's got a few words for us folks fighting for racial justice. On the plus side, we...

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Gabourey Sidibe is Not Precious Jones; Creates Pandemonium
by Guest Columnist   January 27, 2010
By Alex Jung When Lee Daniels opened his casting call in urbania, to find the It girl whom Hollywood could not offer, he searched for a woman who did not resemble Precious Jones. He avoided casting women whose own lives...

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Children of the Earthquake: Rescuing Haiti's Orphans?
by Michelle Chen   January 26, 2010
The Haitian diaspora has always been fractured by definition, with tough kinship ties stretched across oceans in a network of interwoven communities. Now that the earthquake has shaken up borders and geopolitical barriers, no one is quite sure how...

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ACORN Saga Continues in "Louisiana Watergate"
by Michelle Chen   January 26, 2010
How you like me now? You knew it wouldn't be long before we heard again from the ACORN scandal-mongers. This time, rather than demonizing an activist group, the goons are reportedly going straight for the jugular by invading a...

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Prop. 8 Update: America’s Post-Gay & Post-Racial
by Daisy Hernandez   January 26, 2010
The legal fight to overturn Prop. 8 took a scary turn yesterday for communities of color. The defenders of hetero marriage argued that gays and lesbians don’t need the state to protect them from discrimination because they have political clout....

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Is Scott Brown an Immigration Moderate?
by Jorge Rivas   January 26, 2010
Written by Patrick Young, Esq. CARECEN This post originally appeared at Long Island Wins. Since late Tuesday, I've been asked a dozen or more times "Is Scott Brown an immigration moderate in the mold of other Northeastern Republicans?". Based on...

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Immigrant Rights Leader Jean Montrevil Released
by Jorge Rivas   January 25, 2010
It took an earthquake, but Jean Montrevil, whose arrest and deportation order has garnered nationwide protest was released last Saturday. He returned to his wife and four U.S. citizen children at home in Brooklyn. Montrevil had been detained by ICE...

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Perversion of Justice: Citizens United, Corporate Power and Black Disenfranchisement
by Michelle Chen   January 25, 2010
Corporations are people, too. That was the logic behind the Supreme Court's latest assault on the electoral process. Divined from a wildly creative reading of the law, the concept has been manipulated over the years to grant extraordinary powers...

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SC Lt. Gov. Bauer: Free School Lunches Encourage 'Stray Animals' to 'Breed'
by Channing Kennedy   January 23, 2010
image / Associated Press. That's Bauer in the purple. At a recent town hall meeting, South Carolina's Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer criticized the children of poor families, using an impressively dehumanizing metaphor and flunking basic causality in the process....

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