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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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VideoWomen of Color, Domestic Violence and “That” Picture of Rihanna
by Julianne Hing on February 20 2009, 9:46AM
Rihanna’s back in the news again after a photo of her taken the night she was allegedly beat by Chris Brown was leaked online. You probably saw it, even if you weren’t looking for it. Today, the LAPD is…
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Make time for Tulia, Texas tonight
by Julianne Hing on February 10 2009, 11:06AM
(photo credit: Ryan Anson) Tulia, Texas is airing on PBS stations across the country tonight, and you need to see this documentary. In the summer of 1999 the small backwater Texas town grabbed headlines after an undercover drug operation…
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Creating Change 2009 - The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful
by Julianne Hing on February 4 2009, 1:09PM
I’m just back from Creating Change hosted in Denver by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. It was my first time there, and Tracy gave me the lowdown before I left: “It’s basically the largest queer white activist…
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by Julianne Hing on February 3 2009, 7:55PM
This morning, stars of Slumdog Millionaire Anil Kapoor (who played the Millionaire host) and Dev Patel (who played Jamal) were on Today and The View respectively and both men were, for some reason, asked to dance. via Jezebel Can…
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Assessing Racial Equity Impacts in the House Stimulus Bill
by Julianne Hing on February 3 2009, 12:48PM
Conducting a racial equity impact assessment of the stimulus package can start with a chart like this one, which examines per capita spending on jobs training from the bill that passed the House last week. States to the right…
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How To Make Sense of Senseless Acts of Violence Committed by Asian and Asian American Men
by Julianne Hing on January 23 2009, 10:10AM
As a regular reader of the blog Angry Asian Man, I’m well familiar with what’s become a seemingly daily feature there, affectionately titled “Asians Behaving Badly.” Amongst the political news and television reviews, Angry Asian Man also features quick mentions…
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Mehserle Charged with Murder but Oakland Isn’t Celebrating Yet
by Julianne Hing on January 15 2009, 11:59AM
The morning news reports from last night’s rally in Oakland led with the 18 arrests made after a couple stragglers smashed several storefront windows, but the big news from last night is that over a thousand people came together to…
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Oakland Residents Bring Questions, Get Few Answers at BART Hearing
by Julianne Hing on January 9 2009, 4:16AM
Hundreds of activists, students, religious leaders and local politicians attended a marathon public hearing at BART’s headquarters today over the fatal police shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant. The public hearing came the morning after a peaceful civil protest turned…
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The White Man’s Port of the Future
by Julianne Hing on January 6 2009, 12:00PM
Mississippi governor mismanages funds meant for housing recovery—again.
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by Julianne Hing on January 6 2009, 12:00PM
The federal court interpreter gives an insider’s account of the justice system after one of the largest immigration raids in U.S. history.
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by Julianne Hing on November 3 2008, 1:27PM
via ACLU blog San Bernardino County agreed today to institute policies that accommodate the First Amendment right to wear religious head scarves in jail. The agreement was reached after the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Southern…
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Prop 4 – Brought to You by Anti-Choice Advocates Who Can’t Take “No” For an Answer
by Julianne Hing on October 29 2008, 10:30AM
When I cast my ballot on November 4, it will be the first time I plan on bringing a camera with me to document my visit to the polls. But while we’ll all be excited making our picks for president…
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Did Media Foil Michigan GOP “Voter-Foreclosure” Plan?
by Julianne Hing on September 17 2008, 9:35AM
Looks like things in the GOP’s Michigan no house, no vote plan may be going awry. Last week it was reported that the Republican party there had hatched a perfect voter suppression tactic to use the rolls of the…
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The Mechanics of Political Convention Theater
by Julianne Hing on August 28 2008, 5:35PM
I was in the Pepsi Center last night to hear Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Tammy Duckworth, Beau and Joe Biden speak and took this photo from my seat. Of course, from that high up they were maybe as big…
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Meet the Delegates: David Ochoa
by Julianne Hing on August 27 2008, 5:16PM
Meet David Ochoa, New York delegate from the 1st Congressional District, Suffolk County ColorLines: Have you always been an Obama supporter? David Ochoa: Yes I have. Going on 14 months now I’ve been an Obama supporter. I’m from the…
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Times Are Tough but We’ve Still Gotta Laugh
by Julianne Hing on August 27 2008, 5:11PM
For the Muslim and Arab community in the U.S., eight years after George Bush was first elected president, seven years after September 11, six years of Guantanamo Bay, and two years into the ascendancy of Barack Obama, it might…
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Minutemen Leader Tries Talking Like A Humanitarian
by Julianne Hing on August 26 2008, 12:16PM
I imagined the folks at Minutemen gathering crowd asking themselves, “What’s a young, minority lady doing here?” I joined them in Congress Park in Denver. It was billed as an all-day rally—their 8-hour agenda featured speakers like Tom Tancredo, Bob…
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At DNC, Minutemen Leader Tries Talking Like A Humanitarian
by Julianne Hing on August 26 2008, 12:00PM
They want their “good immigrant” narrative while still equating foreign nationals with murders and drugs.
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by Julianne Hing on August 22 2008, 4:14PM
Editor’s note: These interviews kick off ColorLines coverage of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Please note we are also in the process of setting up interviews with delegates for the Republican candidate John McCain. Stay tuned! Two first time…
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