Colorlines Magazine

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Latest documents

• Home in name only: deportees struggle to survive in an unfamiliar and unwelcoming place: the country of their birth.
• Sickle cell: to test or not to test? Colleges are screening for the blood disorder, but will this be another round of discrimination?
• New Orleans won't ask for papers.
• North Carolina enacts Racial Justice Bill.
• U.S. Forest Service issues "tortilla alert".
• ASIAN-AMERICAN PRISONERS HAVE THEIR SAY.
• Black kids ain't what you see on TV.
• Double punishment: families of color are punished twice by immigration and criminal justice systems that don't provide equal justice.
• Hutto closes, what next?
• Asian-American women dealing with depression.

Featured documents

• The innovators: people moving ideas and action in 2008.
• Surviving the ER.
• Flight: in the summer of 2001, a man's body fell out of the sky from a plane headed to London. Amitava Kumar searches for death of a transnational migrant.
• We're here. We're sexual. Get used to it. Abstinence programs have failed teens of color. Now young people are telling adults to get out of the way of their sex education.
• The innovators: activists, politicians and artists to watch in 2009.
• The Book Of Life And Death: a Filipina working as a caretaker keeps a special photo album and a few secrets of her own.
• The invisible mountain: the year is 1971. The Uruguyan government has become increasingly repressive and has secretly been receiving torture training from U.S. Officials. Salome has been active with the Tupamaros, a clandestine guerilla movement, for three years. She has just been arrested. She is 19 years old.
• The rise of the ghetto-fabulous party: across campuses, white students are donning blackface, drinking 40s and playing at being undocumented immigrants. Just another stupid racist joke--or is it the culmination of two decades of conservative politics at colleges?
• Risking it all to find safety: black and brown queer youth are desperately seeking space to love--and be loved. They'll do whatever is necessary to find it.
• Who gains from the green economy? Making sure the "green wave" doesn't leave out communities of color.