Recently added articles from Colorlines Magazine:
The cost of Building Austin: construction workers, mostly Latinos, are literally dying on the job.
Nov 01, 2009; Cardenas, Lourdes ... CONSTRUCTION HAS BECOME one of the most unsafe, unfair and dangerous jobs in Texas, according to a recent report released by the Workers Defense Project, which found that a construction worker was killed on the job every two and a half days in the state in 2007. [ILLUSTRATION ...
Sickle cell: to test or not to test? Colleges are screening for the blood disorder, but will this be another round of discrimination?
Nov 01, 2009; Avila-Shin, Aisha De ... IT HAS BEEN THREE YEARS since Dale Lloyd, a Black student at Rice University, collapsed during a light football workout and was rushed to the hospital. The next morning, he was pronounced dead. According to doctors, Lloyd died because of complications due to having the sickle cell trait. ...
Asian-American women dealing with depression.
Nov 01, 2009; Miranda, Leticia ... ASIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN are more likely than any other group to contemplate suicide, according to a recent University of Washington study. And this likelihood increases the longer they've lived in the U.S. Roughly 16 percent of U.S.-born Asian women have contemplated suicide in ...
White man gets asylum from racism.(RANTS & RAVES)
Nov 01, 2009; Hing, Julianne Ong ... Which is more galling? That Brandon Carl Huntley (pictured), a white man from South Africa, applied to the Canadian government for asylum claiming he feared racist attacks in his home country, or that the Canadian government granted him his request ...
Latinas leave high school too soon.(RANTS & RAVES)
Nov 01, 2009; Hing, Julianne Ong ... The numbers are stark: 98 percent of Latinas report wanting to graduate from high school, but 41 percent of young Latinas end up dropping out of high school, according to a new report from the National Women's Law Center and the Mexican ...
Black supermodels cover fashion mag.(RANTS & RAVES)
Nov 01, 2009; Hing, Julianne Ong ... The fashion industry is famously ignorant when it comes to race and representation. Heck, we have to celebrate every time a Black model gets her own spread inside a magazine. But for the highly anticipated September issue of i-D magazine, they found not just one, but four Black ...
Torn apart by deportation: from New York to Jamaica, families struggle to stay together.
Nov 01, 2009; Hing, Julianne Ong ... BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT, Barack Obama promised an overhaul of the immigration system in his term's first year. When other national fights pushed immigration reform to the back burner, it didn't stop the Obama administration from fine-tuning its agenda on the sidelines. ...
Double punishment: families of color are punished twice by immigration and criminal justice systems that don't provide equal justice.(COVER)
Nov 01, 2009; Wessler, Seth ... IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER FIVE ON THE MORNING of June 2, 2004, when Calvin James woke up, put on his bathrobe and headed outside to put the trash bins out on the street for the pickup. As the super of his building in Jersey City, New Jersey, James liked taking the trash out early in the morning ...
ASIAN-AMERICAN PRISONERS HAVE THEIR SAY.
Nov 01, 2009; Bennett, Hans ... Other: An Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners' Anthology (AK Press) is an impressive book featuring writing and art by 22 people imprisoned in the U.S. The publisher, the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, writes that it "works with API (Asian and Pacific Islander) prisoners to educate the ...
A BLACK PANTHER'S LIFE OF STRUGGLE.
Nov 01, 2009; Morse, Charles ... Mumia Abu-Jamal, Geronimo Pratt and Dhoruba bin Wahad: these are some of the best-known Black Panthers who have spent major portions of their lives confined within the state's so-called "correctional" institutions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robert Hillary King--a member ...
PATTI AUSTIN.
Nov 01, 2009; Kalamka, Juba ... PATTI AUSTIN avant gershwin (Rendezvous Entertainment) PATTI AUSTIN SIGNED HER FIRST recording contract with RCA Records at age 5 in 1954. Since then, the nine-time Grammy nominee has seen all there is to see in the music business. Best known through her string of pop and R&B ...
JEFF BUCKLEY.
Nov 01, 2009; ... JEFF BUCKLEY Grace Around The World (Sony Legacy) IN THE 15 YEARS since the original release of the late Jeff Buckley's lone completed studio CD Grace, many have mused on the significance of his music and what could have been. The posthumously released Live In Chicago DVD (2000) ...
Race flicks: your guide to great movies by directors of color.
Nov 01, 2009; Rastegar, Roya ... TREELESS MOUNTAIN (Directed by So Yong Kim) Out of school for the summer, 6-year-old Jin and her kid sister Bin are left to fend for themselves after their overextended mother abandons them with drunk Big Aunt in a desperate attempt to find their estranged father. Clinging ...
