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Why Hillary Clinton voted for the anti-immigrant wall Last May, in the wake of mass demonstrations that brought millions of immigrants to the streets in cities throughout the United States, New York’s Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton spoke with disdain for the Republican right’s proposals mandating a crackdown on foreign-born workers....
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2006 6:29am PDT
Citing Health Concerns, Farrakhan Turns Over Control of NOI WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Likening his predicament to that of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Minister Louis Farrakhan says he is facing some serious health challenges, causing him to turn over administration of the Nation of Islam to its executive board and cancel all appointments and personal appearances until further notice....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 6:28am PDT
Casinos Aggressively Market to Asian Americans, But Few Services Help Addicts It's Friday and David Liu is taking a 9:30 a.m. bus from Boston's Chinatown to the Mohegan Sun casino complex in Connecticut. Liu, an immigrant from Hong Kong who's been in the U.S. for about four years, says he first learned about the casino in an ad in a Chinese-language newspaper. Now that he's retired, he says, leaning into his seat, he enjoys gambling once or twice a week for fun....
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 4:22pm PDT
Considering Allah During the Jewish High Holy Days A writer looks back on the day she and her family walked out of a synagogue in rejection of simplicity and fear and into a more complex world where Jews and Muslims are closer than they think. Jill Hamburg Coplan is a freelance writer based in Montclair, N.J. She teaches journalism at New York University....
Posted: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 9:44am PDT
Buchanan Gets Ugly -- Again at Buchanan's latest screed asks white Americans to lock and load against the invasion of nonwhite immigrants. It's a call to arms, yet mainstream pundits treat it as legitimate debate, writes Cecilia Munoz, vice president for policy of the National Council of La Raza. Immigration Matters regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 6:14am PDT
Why 'Borat' Leaves Me Cold A native of Iran who was once the "crazy foreigner" says comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's bumbling journalist from Kazakhstan, portrayed in an upcoming and controversial Hollywood film, never goes beyond ridicule and stereotype to teach us something about ourselves....
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 6:13am PDT
Bush Administration Says Prominent Muslim Scholar Can’t Teach in the US He’s considered one of the most prominent Muslim intellectual in Europe. Time Magazine calls him of the 100 most likely innovators of the 21st century. But the US government won’t let him into the country. We get reaction from Oxford University professor Tariq Ramadan to the Bush administration’s latest explanation why he can't accept a teaching position in the United States....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 5:46pm PDT
Double Standard for Hispanic Media? Miami Scandal Puts Journalists Under Fire Hispanic journalists are debating the firing of three El Nuevo Herald journalists who received payments from the U.S. government. Many applaud the journalists' dismissal, while others see a vicious double standard at work. Elena Shore is a writer for New America Media....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 7:23am PDT
Monday Night Football at the Superdome: New Orleans is Back ... Without Blacks Did anybody notice that there was hardly any black people in attendance for the grand re-opening of the New Orleans Superdome on Monday Night Football?...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 6:26am PDT
Blacks to Lead Powerful Committees If Democrats Gain WASHINGTON, D.C. – If the Democrats win the majority of seats in the House of Representatives in November, some members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) could become chair of powerful committees....
Posted: Sun, Sep 24, 2006 5:18pm PDT
Hey, FDA! Ethnic Americans Eat Spinach, Too In national emergencies like the recent outbreak of E. coli in spinach, it's time for government agencies to remember to call the nation's ethnic media, a primary source of information for millions of Americans. Viji Sundaram is New America Media's health editor....
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 6:31am PDT
The Ecstasy of Exile A black writer looks at the racial politics of Burning Man...
Posted: Mon, Sep 18, 2006 4:23pm PDT
The Ecstasy of Exile A black writer writes about the racial politics of Burning Man....
Posted: Mon, Sep 18, 2006 9:49am PDT
Papal Insults: A Bavarian Provocation Was Benedict's most recent provocation accidental or deliberate? The Bavarian is a razor-sharp reactionary cleric. A man who organises his own succession to the Papacy with a ruthless purge of potential dissidents and supervises the selection of Cardinals with great care leaves little to chance....
Posted: Sun, Sep 17, 2006 9:51am PDT
African-American Minnesota Legislator Keith Ellison Slated to Become First Muslim Elected To Congress We speak with Keith Ellison, the African-American state legislator in Minnesota who is slated to become the first Muslim elected to Congress. Ellison won Tuesday's primary defeating three rivals to become the Democratic nominee. He is favored to win election in November in the heavily Democratic fifth district....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:35am PDT
French Mumia Support Arrives in Philly! by Hans Bennett 
Pam Africa and other supporters has written up their own City Council Resolution to counter the previous one condemning French support for Mumia and are going to present it at Philadelphia City Hall for the City Council opening session first thing in the morning this Thursday, September 14. Africa emphatically urges people to arrive that morning to show support for the new resolution....
Posted: Mon, Sep 11, 2006 1:03pm PDT
Partisan Challenge to NAACP Tax Exempt Status Ends WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Internal Revenue Service ruled last week that the NAACP, a civil rights organization, can keep its tax-exempt status....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 4:57pm PDT
Now More Than Ever New Orleans Rebuilding Open to Blacks NEW ORLEANS – It has been almost a year since the Lord unleashed the most devastating hurricane to hit the coast of the United States. It seems like yesterday that the neglect, incompetence and abyss that followed were portrayed on world television. The United States was going through World War III devastation and appeared to be heading straight for a new holocaust....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 4:56pm PDT
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