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UAFA Would Keep Shirley Tan with her Partner and Kids
June 05, 2009
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This is Shirley Tan, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA). UAFA would allow U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their same-sex partners for family-based immigration. Tan fled to the U.S....

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Harlem Youth Exposes Teen Homelessness at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
June 05, 2009
RaceWire Blog
by Cynthia Carrion Each night 1,600 teenagers in New York City find themselves homeless. Harlem’s own Clevins Browne and Olivia McClendon take this issue on as part of Youth Producing Change, an innovative program of youth-produced short films from...

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The (Racist, Sexist) Princess Problem
June 05, 2009
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By Nina Jacinto This post originally appeared at WireTap. I've always taken an interest in how women, particularly women of color, are represented in toys and media that are targeted towards children: everything from the release of Mattel's Diwali Barbie...

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Tent City Stories
June 05, 2009
ColorLines
People of color reflect on the role racism played in leaving them without jobs and homes.

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A fair hearing for immigrants
June 05, 2009
RaceWire Blog
In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Justice Department clamped down on the right of immigrants to "effective" legal counsel. Essentially, the administration figured that a lawyer's incompetence shouldn't be grounds for holding up a deportation order in...

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Reading between the lines in Cairo
June 04, 2009
RaceWire Blog
President Obama's speech in Cairo aspired to recast America's relations with the “Muslim world.” The response of Muslim observers in the so-called Western world ranged from cautious hope to detached cynicism. But across the board, people noted Obama's careful...

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Wells Fargo Pays for Its Racism, and Other News
June 04, 2009
RaceWire Blog
Employees Claim Racist Wells Fargo Loan Practices Wells Fargo is facing a hefty lawsuit by Baltimore City that claims the bank routinely pointed people of color towards high-rate mortgages and channeled prime-loan-qualified customers toward subprime loans. Baltimore Sun Racist Vandalism...

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Seth Wessler at HuffPo: GM's Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest
June 04, 2009
RaceWire Blog
Check out ARC researcher Seth Wessler's excellent new piece at the Huffington Post today, "GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest. Workers Desperately Need EFCA." Seth lays out how the real losers in GM's bankruptcy are Detroit's communities of...

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5 Reasons Why Only White Males are Supreme Court Material
June 04, 2009
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(cartoon via) This talking points memo must have landed in the wrong inbox… TO: All red-blooded God-fearing Americans RE: 5 reasons why white men are more fit for the Supreme Court than that Latina woman • White men are...

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Drop Your Gun and Pick Up a Camera for Oscar Grant
June 04, 2009
RaceWire Blog
Guns are so 20th Century. I don’t feel safer thinking about carrying one. Nor do I feel safer in a society where everyone is encouraged to carry one to, you know, prevent crime. Why am I saying this? I’ve been...

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