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ColorLines Magazine New Cell Phone App Helps Immigrants Safely Cross the Border
Source: www.racewire.org
Activist hacker and UC San Diego professor Ricardo Rodriguez has developed a new tool to help migrant workers safely cross over the border into the United States, the “Transborder Immigrant Tool.
ColorLines Magazine How one girl from East L.A. decided to join the military.
ColorLines Magazine Louisiana tribes cling to traditions as oil and gas industries take their land.
ColorLines Magazine Nominate your favorite RaceWire blogger to win a cruise with Air America!
Source: airamerica.com
Air America wants to reward one lucky member of the progressive blogosphere with a free cruise through the Mexican Riviera with Gov. Howard Dean, Rachel Maddow, Robert Kennedy Jr, Ron Reagan, and other leading progressives.
ColorLines Magazine What does the Stupak-Pitts Amendment mean for reproductive justice?
Source: www.racewire.org
A few Saturdays ago, on November 7th, I was at the annual SisterSong meeting, a gathering of about 300 reproductive justice advocates. What was exhilarating and unusual about this meeting was that the ...
ColorLines Magazine Race and Beauty Sold Separately
Source: www.racewire.org
In response to Barbie’s legacy of monoracial beauty standards, Mattel created the Grace™, Kara™, and Trichelle™ dolls whose supposedly fuller lips, curlier hair, wider noses and more pronounced cheek bones signal a less conformist approach to toy design.
ColorLines Magazine Chinese Hotel Workers Take on Hyatt
Source: vimeo.com
During a recent three-day strike outside the Grand Hyatt hotel in San Francisco, nearly half of the protesters were Chinese immigrants. Many of them work as room cleaners and food servers in local hotels. ...
ColorLines Magazine don't give up on old school storytelling just yet. Erasmo Guerra writes for ColorLines Magazine about a new program gathering the oral stories of Latinos here and in Puerto Rico.
ColorLines Magazine thinking of seeing Chris Rock's new documentary on Black hair? You might want to read Alex Jung's commentary ColorLines Magazine first: "For someone who launched his career on button pushing, the documentary leaves too many of these questions unexamined."
ColorLines Magazine News to make you doubt your sanity or at least start a petition.
Source: colorlines.com
New reports from the Government Accountability Office estimate the cost of maintaining the 600 miles of fence along the Mexican-U.S. border at $6.5 billion over the next 20 years. That doesn’t even include the $2.4 billion it cost to build the thing in the first place. ...
ColorLines Magazine gritTV is showing ColorLines Magazine's video on healthcare with vlogger Tammy Johnson!
ColorLines Magazine A survey of soul history, and a glimpse at the future of hip-hop.
Source: www.colorlines.com
Ruth Brown might be known to some younger audiences from her role in John Waters’s 1988 cult film Hairspray. This R&B legend and 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s career had been largely obscured until she fought for recognition. ...
ColorLines Magazine Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's new novel explores generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women's strength and struggle.
Source: www.colorlines.com
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?
Source: www.racewire.org
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. ...
