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A way forward on marriage equality
April 13, 2010
rinku.jpgARC's Executive Director, Rinku Sen, writes about opportunities for black and LGBT communities to work together for marriage equality.
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Health Care and Job Creation are Important, But Obama Must Address Racism
April 13, 2010

obama_race.jpgThe Christian Science Monitor featured an op-ed by Tammy Johnson, Director of Strategic Partnerships at ARC, about racial equity standards as indicators of government effectiveness.

 

 

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What Progressives Must Learn from the ACORN Debacle
March 26, 2010
acorn_032410.jpgARC's Executive Director, Rinku Sen writes about lessons progressives can learn from the recent closure of ACORN.
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ARC Copenhagen Analysis Featured in AlterNet
December 18, 2009
obama_copenhagen.jpgARC executive director, Rinku Sen, writes about America's role at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
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Old Criminal Records Are Life Sentences in Job Market
December 03, 2009
hands-outta-bars.jpgThe Grio featured an op-ed by ARC's Research Associate, Seth Wessler, about how communities of color are experiencing higher rates of joblessness due to the stigma attached to having a criminal record.
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Yvonne Liu: Got Green?
November 13, 2009
yvonne_large.jpgSenior Researcher at ARC, Yvonne Liu, has an op-ed in Race, Poverty & the Environment about the newly release Green Equity Toolkit.
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Rinku Sen and Billy Parish: Young, Green, and Broke
October 16, 2009
sen-parish-oped.jpgARC executive director Rinku Sen and Billy Parish of the Energy Action Coalition coauthored a piece in the Huffington Post on youth unemployment and the green economy.
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Taking on Postracialism by Rinku Sen
October 16, 2009

 

 ARC executive director Rinku Sen authored a piece in On the Issues Magazine about postracialism, and why it resists racial equity standards.

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ACORN is the New Dirty Word: Rinku Sen at New America Media
October 01, 2009
rinku.jpgARC executive director Rinku Sen has an op-ed at New American media. She argues that the assault on ACORN is an attack on community organizing as a whole.
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Post-9/11 immigration debate needs shift in focus
September 14, 2009
Rinku SenRinku Sen discusses the post-September 11 immigration debate at The Grio.
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Rinku Sen: The White Supremacist in Us
June 18, 2009

Over the past two weeks, Americans struggled to make sense of tragic shootings that seemed disconnected at first glance. Anti-Semite James Von Brunn killed Stephen T. Johns, a black security guard at the Holocaust Museum. George Tiller's murder a few days earlier seemed to be about abortion, yet his shooter, Scott Roeder, also had roots in the racial purity movement. Yesterday, it was reported that the murders of Raul Flores and his daughter in Arizona were charged to three people with white supremacist ambitions.


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Seth Freed Wessler: GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color. Workers Desperately Need EFCA.
June 04, 2009

When General Motors filed for bankruptcy on Monday, it left behind a long trail of grievers -- twenty-one thousand of them. The loss of these good, union jobs and the many more that will be shed when related businesses close are devastating families and communities. For black workers, who are highly concentrated in the auto industry, these have long been some of the few reliable jobs that pay living wages, supplying families of color the with the possibility of entering the middle class.

 

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Seth Freed Wessler: Stop the Next American Nightmare
May 18, 2009

This weekend the New York Times reported that middle class families of color have been most hurt by the subprime crisis in New York City. The article confirms previous findings that show middle and upper income borrowers of color across the country are more likely to receive predatory, high cost loans than whites -- even low-income whites. As a result Black, Latino, Asian and American Indian families are burdened with the heaviest weight of foreclosures.

 

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