
ColorLines Magazine Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's new novel explores generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women's strength and struggle.
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Just because a story isn’t often told doesn’t mean it never happened. In her first novel, Daughters of the Stone (St. Martin’s Press), Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa traces fivegenerations of female strength, resistance and survival. ...

ColorLines Magazine Who Gets Blamed for Maine Losing Gay Marriage?
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This blog post originally appeared on the Western States Center blog.Let me first admit, it’s taken me a day to recover. The loss in Maine on Question 1 is painful to me; I had hoped that New England would become a bastion of support for marriage equality. ...

ColorLines Magazine South Los Angeles Residents Being Forced to Buy Unnecessary Flood Insurance
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Hundreds of Los Angeles area home owners are being forced to buy unnecessary flood insurance with steep fees. Why? Because FEMA, using 40 year-old maps, has declared their neighborhoods as flood zones. The city could have intervened, but they failed to act.

ColorLines Magazine New mobile site for ColorLines.com. More changes in 2010.
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Dear ColorLines readers,I’m sitting here at my desk, flipping through the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of ColorLines, feeling both nostalgic and excited. This marks the last bimonthly print issue of the magazine and there’s a sense that a chapter is coming to a close both for us and our readers. ...

ColorLines Magazine As California prepares to start shrinking its prison system, advocates see more peril than promise.

ColorLines Magazine Is Black Face the New Black?
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New York photographer Mario Sorrenti shoots for the biggest fashion magazines like W, Vogue, and V Magazine regularly. He’s had his work exhibited at the MoMa in New York and has shot huge international campaigns like the Calvin Klein Obsession ads with Kate Moss.

ColorLines Magazine Fight Halloween Bigotry! Dress Provocatively Proactive With These Costume Ideas
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We’ve all seen the many racist and sexist Halloween costumes on the market this year (and every year). And this soft bigotry, through objectifying imagery under the pretense of parody or entertainment, ...

ColorLines Magazine Director Sterlin Harjo tells the story of true loves who are always leaving each other.
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ColorLines Magazine The new film Precious is haunting but silent on the political realities of 1980s Harlem.

ColorLines Magazine Deportees struggle to survive in an unfamiliar and unwelcoming place: the country of their birth.
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People’s departure dates are often kept secret; many are shuttled out of the country without ever being able to say goodbye to family in the U.S. or to let anyone in Jamaica know they’ll be arriving.

ColorLines Magazine East Harlem Residents Claim Victory Over Real-Estate Giant
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East Harlem residents with Movement for Justice in El Barrio, a part of la Otra Campaña, have managed to fight off Dawnay Day, a London-based real-estate corporation that tried to take over 47 apartment buildings from low-income and immigrant renters.

ColorLines Magazine After more than 50 years of making music, the R&B singer still sounds excited about the possibilities.
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ColorLines Magazine The 5 Most Unintentionally Racist Movies About Racism
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Bobby “Fatboy” Roberts, writing for Cracked.com, compiles a list of the top five, well, read the title of this blog post!

ColorLines Magazine The new film "Treeless Mountain" shows the spirit of two girls and their country.
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