Colorlines Magazine

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Latest documents

• Always saying goodbye: a family's long-distance life, in photos.
• White man gets asylum from racism.
• Black supermodels cover fashion mag.
• The cost of Building Austin: construction workers, mostly Latinos, are literally dying on the job.
• PATTI AUSTIN.
• FIVE GENERATIONS OF AFRO-PUERTO RICAN WOMEN.
• Keeping families together.
• Torn apart by deportation: from New York to Jamaica, families struggle to stay together.
• A BLACK PANTHER'S LIFE OF STRUGGLE.
• Federal money put to good use along the border.

Featured documents

• The innovators: people moving ideas and action in 2008.
• 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.
• Racism's not posted on a sign.
• 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.
• Home from the military: a third of female veterans are women of color. Here are three of their stories.
• No, you can't attack immigrants.
• 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.