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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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VideoElvira Arellano Keeps Her Promises, Won’t Stop Fighting
by Julianne Hing on May 11 2009, 2:32PM
Elvira Arellano, an undocumented mom who defied a deportation order and sought sanctuary in a Chicago church for nearly a year back in 2006, is in the news again. She became an activist and an organizer and was vocal…
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Open Book TV with Moutafa Bayoumi [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing on May 7 2009, 12:34PM
Open Book TV: Moustafa Bayoumi from Open Book TV on Vimeo. Check out this clip from Open Book, a new television show about books that spends each episode in one location exploring stories about people’s ties to place. The premiere…
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by Julianne Hing on May 6 2009, 12:00PM
News to make you doubt your sanity or at least start a petition.
Topics: Criminal Justice
by Julianne Hing on May 6 2009, 12:00PM
The good (and sometimes great) things people of color and their allies made happen.
Topics: Criminal Justice
The Most Racist Comments About Mexicans Ever Allowed On-Air [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing on May 5 2009, 12:18PM
via Alternet by Cenk Uygur I am not quick to call something racist. In fact, I wrote an editorial pleading with everyone not to call the NY Post chimp cartoon racist. I went on MSNBC and defended that position. I’m…
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Photos from May Day 2009 in New York City
by Julianne Hing on May 1 2009, 2:44PM
Miguel de la Fuente, our New York media intern, sent us photos from this afternoon in New York City, where thousands of protesters are on the streets demanding an end to immigration raids and deportations, justice for all families and…
Topics: Immigration
May Day 2009 with Shannah Kurland
by Julianne Hing on May 1 2009, 1:21PM
Today we’re asking people around the country one question: How do we talk about immigration reform in a time of economic recession? This is what Shannah Kurland, the Strategy and Development Coordinator with the Olneyville Neighborhood Association in Rhode…
Topics: Immigration
May Day 2009 with Kevin Johnson
by Julianne Hing on May 1 2009, 12:01PM
Today we’re asking people around the country one question: How do we talk about immigration reform in a time of economic recession? First up is Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law, and an international expert on…
Topics: Immigration
Your Community Calendar: May Day Events Happening Near You
by Julianne Hing on April 29 2009, 3:26PM
Welcome to this week’s edition of Your Community Calendar! We’re going to get right into it with a selection of immigrant rights marches and rallies happening around the country this Friday, May 1, which is International Workers’ Day, but…
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Obama’s 100-Day Climb Toward Racial Justice
by Julianne Hing on April 28 2009, 12:11PM
Click on the thumbnail above to download our interactive pdf. On January 20th President Obama was handed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, financial meltdown, exploding foreclosures, mass layoffs, healthcare and education in shambles. In some states the unemployment rate…
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Will Justice for Angie Also Bring an End to the Trans Panic Defense? [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing on April 24 2009, 11:49AM
Please be warned, this is not an easy video to watch. Angie Zapata’s brother, Gonzalo Zapata, flanked by the Zapata family, read a statement yesterday after Angie’s killer, Allen Andrade, was convicted of first degree murder with a hate…
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by Julianne Hing on April 22 2009, 5:11PM
via The Nation by Melissa Harris-Lacewell There is no doubt that green is the new black. Suburbanites compete to have bigger recycling bins than garbage cans, to grocery shop using canvas bags, and to park hybrid cars in their…
Topics: Environment
Your Community Calendar for the Week of April 22-29
by Julianne Hing on April 22 2009, 3:27PM
We’re kicking off a new weekly feature at RaceWire today with a roundup of the progressive and racial justice-related events happening around the country the next seven days. Actions, community forums, cultural events, conferences, you’ll find all of it here….
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Breaking News: Angie Zapata’s Killer Found Guilty of a Hate Crime
by Julianne Hing on April 22 2009, 3:16PM
This is justice. Allen Andrade, 32, was this afternoon found guilty of first degree, bias-motivated murder, identity theft and aggravated motor theft, for killing Angie Zapata, an 18-year-old transgender woman in Greeley, Colorado last summer. The court case went…
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Who’s Really Behind The Tea Bag Protests
by Julianne Hing on April 15 2009, 4:45PM
via Imagine 2050 by Jill Garvey It’s no secret that conservatives have a hard time keeping racism out of their ranks (airwaves), and now it seems it has surfaced in even their grassroots (astro turf) movements. The whole tea…
Topics: Economy
Keeping the DREAM Act Alive [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing on April 15 2009, 9:54AM
Last Friday, students held a rally in support of the federal Dream Act in Detroit. They gathered in front of Western International High School to show their support for the newly reintroduced bill that would allow undocumented high school…
Topics: Immigration
Light a Candle for Angie Zapata
by Julianne Hing on April 14 2009, 3:44PM
The murder trial for Angie Zapata began today. Zapata was just 17 when she was brutally murdered in her Greeley, Colorado apartment last summer after her suspected killer, Allen Andrade, spent the night and found out she was transgender….
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Check Out Our Q&A with Andrea Shorter
by Julianne Hing on April 9 2009, 12:53PM
It’s been a big week for gay marriage. The good news started with Iowa last week, then Vermont followed a few days later. Today we have our fingers crossed for D.C and are very excited for New York. California better…
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We Are Sick of Not Being Heard [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing on April 8 2009, 4:48PM
Lucila DeLoera of Nampa, Idaho, took her 75-year-old mother Maria to a local hospital for knee surgery. But Maria couldn’t understand her nurses and none of them spoke Spanish either. Because of work, Lucila couldn’t be with her mother…
Topics: Health
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