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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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VideoRest in Peace, Howard Zinn: Activist, Historian, Writer for The People
by Julianne Hing on January 27 2010, 4:00PM
The Boston Globe reports that Howard Zinn, an activist, professor and author of the seminal revisionist history tome, A People’s History of The United States, passed away today. He was 87 years old. Thank you, Zinn, for sharing many of…
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Friday Twitter Break: Supreme Court’s Campaign Finance Decision Edition
by Julianne Hing on January 22 2010, 10:56AM
Happy Friday! We’re kicking off a new Friday feature today, culling some of the best of the race talk happening in the Twittersphere. We scan the tweets so you don’t have to. Today in our Friday Twitter Break, Princeton professor…
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Washington Groups Deliver Racial Equity Legislative Report Card
by Julianne Hing on January 20 2010, 3:16PM
On Monday, twenty Washington groups led by Washington CAN, a statewide grassroots lobbying organization, delivered a legislative report card to state lawmakers in Olympia. The tally of grades didn’t look too good; nine representatives from the 13th, 14th and…
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A Whites-Only Pro Basketball League Set to Start June 2010
by Julianne Hing on January 20 2010, 2:47PM
Here are the essentials: It will be called the All-American Basketball Alliance, the AABA. Its kickoff will be in June. It hopes to launch in twelve cities in the South. Only white players—that is, “natural born United States citizens with…
Topics: Sports
Breaking: Obama Offers Temp Protected Status to Haitians Already in U.S.
by Julianne Hing on January 15 2010, 6:04PM
USA Today is reporting that the Obama administration is granting a special Temporary Protected Status for 18 months to Haitian nationals who are already in the United States. In Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s statement she said: This…
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BART Cop Mehserle’s Trial Moved to LA, And The Protesters Follow
by Julianne Hing on January 8 2010, 5:16PM
Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who shot Oscar Grant in the back on New Year’s Day 2009 on the Fruitvale BART station platform in Oakland, headed into his first day of pre-trial hearings in Los Angeles today. And over…
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“Waving While Latino”: NY Town Brings Anti-Immigrant Policy to New Level
by Julianne Hing on January 8 2010, 12:14PM
Every time I think anti-immigrant weasels have run out of ways to discriminate against immigrants, a gem of a news item comes along to slap me in the face. Like this one, out of Oyster Bay in New York’s Nassau…
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Schwarzenegger Calls For…What Was that? More Education Spending!
by Julianne Hing on January 6 2010, 6:11PM
Okay, so California’s action hero governor also called for an overhaul of the tax and pension systems and demanded more privately run prisons in his state of the state address today. These moves toward privatization will surely not be good…
Topics: Politics, Schools & Youth
Tiger Woods Covers Vanity Fair Wearing Nothing But A Skullcap
by Julianne Hing on January 4 2010, 2:29PM
So folks, what do you say? The photographer, Annie Leibovitz, should be well known to RaceWire readers as a shameless provocateur, with questionable race politics. We know Leibovitz’s track record. We know the cultural context of this moment in…
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The Best of ColorLines 2009 For Your Holiday Reading Pleasure
by Julianne Hing on December 24 2009, 12:56PM
While I should be gearing up for the massive family and food extravaganza that is about to descend on my folks’ house tomorrow, I’m more in the mood to curl up on the couch with some good, meaty reading…
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This Holiday Season, Immigrants Watch Out for Racial Profiling On Greyhound Buses
by Julianne Hing on December 22 2009, 2:23PM
Last Thursday, a coalition of groups led by the Immigrant Raids Rapid Response Network, formally threatened to organize a boycott Greyhound buses because Border Patrol agents have taken up residence at many bus stations to check travelers’ immigration status….
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HP Face-Tracker Software Can’t See Black People
by Julianne Hing on December 21 2009, 5:08PM
Desi and his good sport of a coworker, “white Wanda,” demonstrate exactly how HP’s latest facial-tracking technology on their MediaSmart computer is absolutely no good for a dark-skinned person of color. HP responds: We are working with our partners…
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It’s The Holidays At RaceWire!
by Julianne Hing on December 21 2009, 1:48PM
Good morning folks. RaceWire HQ (also known as the Applied Research Center office) is closed for the next two weeks but Jorge Rivas and I, your trusty RaceWire editors, will still be here to help usher you into the new…
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Pres. Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize, But It’s Up to Us to End This War
by Julianne Hing on December 10 2009, 6:16PM
From President Obama’s speech to accept the Nobel Peace Prize today: There will be times when nations — acting individually or in concert — will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified. I make this…
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Justice Sotomayor Uses The Word “Undocumented” In Supreme Court Case Decision
by Julianne Hing on December 9 2009, 6:08PM
Mohawk v. Carpenter According to the Houston Chronicle, Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s use of the word “undocumented immigrant” in her opinion for the case Mohawk Industries, Inc. vs. Carpenter marks the first time the phrase has been used in a Supreme…
Topics: Immigration
One In Six Undercover Cops Harassed by Other Cops
by Julianne Hing on December 4 2009, 2:15PM
One in six undercover NYPD police officers reported having gotten into scuffles with other police officers who mistakenly thought they were suspects, according to a new study released this week by the NYPD’s police commissioner, Ray Kelly. The hope,…
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There’s No Positive Way to Spin 30,000 New Troops And $30 Billion for War
by Julianne Hing on December 2 2009, 9:34AM
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I watched the President’s speech last night and I am going to save you a little time by paraphrasing his 33-minute speech as follows: The war is not…
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Darius Rucker Wins at The Country Music Awards, So What?
by Julianne Hing on November 25 2009, 7:50PM
One of my favorite comedians, Kamau Bell, has a line in his routine where he says, “Country music is the blues minus slavery.” Zing! But Juba Kalamka, our resident music critic at ColorLines, took the opportunity to explore what…
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The South Asian Celebrity Parade at The White House State Dinner
by Julianne Hing on November 25 2009, 5:00PM
You ever had the experience where a white guy invites you over for dinner? And you show up and he’s cooked you a Chinese buffet to show you just how much he respects your cultural identity? He thinks it’s a…
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Chia Obama: Racist Snub Or Just…Bad Taste?
by Julianne Hing on November 12 2009, 2:04PM
Here at the Applied Research Center we often talk about the importance of discerning between intention and impact when it’s time to assess the racial inequity in our midst. We have policies that on their face don’t even mention race…
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