Colorlines Magazine

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Latest documents

• 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.
• JEFF BUCKLEY.
• Latinas leave high school too soon.
• Always saying goodbye: a family's long-distance life, in photos.

Featured documents

• Dismantling U.S.-style apartheid: what can the immigrant rights agenda learn from the Free South Africa Movement?
• What a bargain: the widespread practice of plea bargaining has increased repercussions for people of color who end up literally signing away their lives on the dotted line.
• The innovators: people moving ideas and action in 2008.
• Finding families for black children; A new study calls for amending adoption laws to talk about race.
• Racism's not posted on a sign.
• 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.