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Oakland, CA
Julianne Hing is a reporter and blogger for Colorines.com covering immigration, education, criminal justice, and occasionally fashion and pop culture. In 2009 Julianne was the recipient of USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism fellowship, which funded a reporting project on the impacts of criminal deportation on immigrant families. She has covered police brutality issues from Oakland to New Orleans and in the summer of 2010 reported for Colorlines from the courtroom where Oscar Grant's killer, BART cop Johannes Mehserle, faced trial. Julianne became politically active in high school, and started organizing students in college around access and affordability issues. She earned her B.A. in social ecology at the University of California, Irvine, where she edited Jaded magazine, named 2007 Publication of the Year by Campus Progress. Julianne’s writing has appeared on AlterNet, Truthout, Hyphen Magazine's blog, The American Prospect's blog TAPPED and Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog at The Atlantic, Racialicious, The Root and New America Media.
Julianne tweets at @juliannehing.
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Neighbors Use Love to Fight Off Grandma’s Foreclosure
by Julianne Hing on April 6 2011, 6:12PM
On March 28 Catherine Lennon’s community, led by the housing rights group Take Back the Land Rochester, gathered around her to defend her home from eviction.
Topics: Celebrate Love
7 Immigrant Youth Arrested in Atlanta for Demanding Higher Ed Access
by Julianne Hing on April 6 2011, 5:16PM
The students were protesting Georgia’s new law that forbids undocumented students from enrolling in five state universities.
Topics: Immigration
Sen. Durbin Is Set To Revive DREAM Act Fight in This Congress
by Julianne Hing on April 5 2011, 9:30AM
Negotiations are expected to focus on the narrow version that failed to clear a Republican filibuster last year.
Topics: DREAM Act, Immigration
Trial Begins for Two NOPD Cops Accused of Fatal Beating
by Julianne Hing on April 4 2011, 2:25PM
Veteran cop Melvin Williams and his rookie partner Matthew Dean Moore have been accused of fatally beating Raymond Robair in 2005.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Today’s Love: One B-boy’s Solidarity with the Middle East
by Julianne Hing on April 1 2011, 1:19PM
Watch this beautiful ode to the people who are fighting for democracy and self-determination.
Topics: Celebrate Love
Michelle Rhee Responds to D.C. Testing Scandal
by Julianne Hing on March 31 2011, 2:14PM
This week Michelle Rhee, the face of an education reform movement sweeping across the nation, was called to answer for a possible cheating scandal that happened under her watch as the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. schools. After initially…
Topics: Schools & Youth
Today’s Love is for Emily Ruiz, Hugs and Coming Home
by Julianne Hing on March 30 2011, 6:09PM
The power of love and family are ties that even draconian immigration policies and a divisive anti-immigrant climate can’t deny.
Topics: Celebrate Love
Deported 4-year-old Citizen Emily Ruiz Finally Comes Home
by Julianne Hing on March 30 2011, 1:41PM
The four-year-old was reunited on with her family yesterday.
Topics: Immigration
Joe Arpaio Launches “Air Posse” to Hunt Immigrants at Border
by Julianne Hing on March 30 2011, 12:10PM
The plan involves sending citizen vigilantes into the skies with automatic weapons.
Topics: Immigration, Joe Arpaio
Obama Criticizes His Own Pro-Testing Agenda At Town Hall
by Julianne Hing on March 29 2011, 12:53PM
Under the president’s education policy proposals, an entire school’s teaching staff can be fired and schools can be shut down if test scores don’t improve.
Topics: Schools & Youth
D.C. Test Score Gains Too Good to be True
by Julianne Hing on March 28 2011, 10:17AM
Standardized tests remain wildly capricious things. But is the pressure proving too much for some schools?
Topics: Schools & Youth
Family Hopeful for Emily Ruiz’s Return After Border Patrol Battle
by Julianne Hing on March 25 2011, 3:59PM
Immigration advocates claim the girls undocumented parents were denied their rights solely on the basis of their immigration status.
Topics: Immigration
Miami’s Spate of Cop Shootings of Black Men
by Julianne Hing on March 25 2011, 3:16PM
Seven black men have been killed by Miami cops in the course of eight months.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Opposes Her Own Party’s Severe Budget
by Julianne Hing on March 25 2011, 1:50PM
“We don’t need quick cuts just because it sounds good,” she says.
Topics: Schools & Youth
DOJ Asks Judge to Throw Out For-Profit Schools’ Lawsuit
by Julianne Hing on March 24 2011, 3:36PM
Student and consumer advocates argue that the rules are necessary to curb the schools’ faulty promises.
Topics: Schools & Youth
Steven Seagal Partners with Arpaio, Rolls into Arizona in a Tank
by Julianne Hing on March 24 2011, 1:29PM
Meanwhile, Phoenix has had to lay off actual police officers to deal with its budget shortfall.
Topics: Immigration, Joe Arpaio
Arizona May Finally Be Ready to “Take a Time Out” on Immigrant Bashing
by Julianne Hing on March 18 2011, 1:36PM
Senate rejects Russell Pearce’s birthright citizenship ban, as CEOs tell legislature to move on from immigration enforcement.
Topics: 14th Amendment, Immigration
Wisconsin Leads on 2012 Campaign Tricks with Voter ID Law
by Julianne Hing on March 18 2011, 10:20AM
Dozens of states are already gearing up efforts to surpress voting among people of color and youth.
Study: Only 37 Percent of Students Can Repay Loans on Time
by Julianne Hing on March 17 2011, 3:35PM
And with 15 percent of black college grads out of work, that number’s likely to go up.
Topics: Schools & Youth
White House Could Be Forced To Re-Open Yucca Mountain Talks
by Julianne Hing on March 16 2011, 5:10PM
Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress that, if the administration loses a pending legal challenge, the idea Native Americans have fought may be back.
Topics: Environment
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