If the understated intention of Arizona's new immigration law was to maintain the state's white majority, it appears to be working. New figures suggest that documented and undocumented Latinos are leaving the state amid fears of being racially profiled, detained,...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrives at the White House today for a meeting with President Obama that's not likely to alter the core problems for the administration's policy on Gaza. As international calls for Israel to end its blockade of...
How many invasions can a community take? The Indians of Pointe-au-Chien in Southern Louisiana have endured centuries of colonization and exploitation--under the French, the Americans, and now, the oil industry. But the tiny Pointe-au-Chien community, which is cut off from...
Maria del Rosario and Maria Guadalupe Huereca, sister and mother of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca. Last night a 14-year-old boy named Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca on the Mexican side of the El Paso-Juarez border was shot and killed by a...
By Brentin Mock St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens acknowledged today that his office requested federal immigration officials search for undocumented workers among those cleaning up BP's oil spill. After a spokesperson for the sheriff's department initially denied involvement*--and federal...
UPDATE 3:50PM ET: A city spokesperson from teenage victim Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca's hometown of Juarez condemned the shooting, saying that Hernandez was with other friends playing around the international Paso del Norte bridge. CNN reports that Hernandez, who was...
By now you've heard: pioneering Washington journalist Helen Thomas has, thanks to a viral video interview, been pilloried for offensive comments about Israel and ousted from the press corps' inner sanctum. Her words were definitely incendiary—Jews should “get the hell...
While the government struggles to confront the mounting catastrophe on the Gulf Coast, a legal settlement in Texas is set to put hundreds of millions in long overdue relief funds into the hands of disaster victims. Since the 2008 hurricane...
The Senate is expected to begin debate today on extending unemployment insurance until November. The overwhelming majority of Americans support doing so, according to a new poll, but the Senate is poised to ignore that fact--not to mention the plight...
UPDATE 1:00PM ET: Though the 'Holy Weather' video has been removed from youtube by the uploader, Mediaite has re-posted it. Embedded below. ............ This weekend, thirty seconds of video surfaced in which veteran DC reporter Helen Thomas, in a snippet...
California School Vouchers Will Increase Racial Inequality. by Tammy Johnson, Libero Della Piana and Phyllida Burlingamea. October, 2000. Executive Summary.
Innovative Research Details Race-Based Health Inequality. Today, the Applied Research Center and Northwest Federation of Community Organizations released a new…