Michael Jackson: One Year Later
by Daisy Hernandez on June 25 2010, 3:12PM
It’s the one-year anniversary of the death of the King of Pop and the tributes have been underway since early this morning.
Topics: Arts & Culture
Daisy Hernandez
Daisy is the coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Today's Feminism. She's the former editor of ColorLines magazine and a former columnist with Ms. magazine. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, the National Catholic Reporter, bitch magazine, Curve, In These Times, as well as, several anthologies. For more of her work, go to daisyhernandez.com.
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Muslim American Held in Cairo on No-Fly List
by Daisy Hernandez on June 16 2010, 2:50PM
Yahya Wehelie, from Fairfax, Virginia, US, displays his US passport in Cairo, Egypt. Wehelie has been stuck in Egypt for the last six weeks because his name was on a U.S. no-fly list due to people he met during a…
Topics: National Security
Here’s How Arizona May Target Children of Immigrants
by Daisy Hernandez on June 15 2010, 8:05PM
Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce confirmed his next legislative target: kids. And he’s busy charting his way around the 14th amendment.
Topics: 14th Amendment, Arizona's SB 1070, Immigration
Closing Arguments on Prop. 8 Set for Tomorrow
by Daisy Hernandez on June 15 2010, 4:03PM
A federal judge in San Francisco will hear closing arguments tomorrow in a lawsuit challenging Prop. 8, which banned gay marriage in California. But don’t expect this to be a simple back and forth between “gays have a right to…
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
Looking For a Blonde Runway Model? Hit Brazil’s Poor Farms
by Daisy Hernandez on June 10 2010, 3:42PM
Agent and former model Bethann Hardison once said, “Modeling is probably the one industry where you have the freedom to refer to people by their color and reject them in their work.” It’s also probably the one industry where you…
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Black Man Shot, Dragged 10 Miles in South Carolina
by Daisy Hernandez on June 7 2010, 6:12PM
The FBI is looking into whether race may have played a role in the murder of Anthony Hill last week in Newberry, South Carolina. Local authorities say the 30-year-old Black man was shot by his white coworker, Gregory Collins,…
Topics: Criminal Justice
by Daisy Hernandez on June 7 2010, 3:31PM
The monthly unemployment numbers are in, largely confirming what we already knew: the 411,000 temporary jobs created by the Census jobs helped but just a little. The overall unemployment rate shifted down from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent and for…
Topics: Economy
Obama Administration Hopes to Privatize Public Housing
by Daisy Hernandez on June 4 2010, 4:10PM
The Obama administration laid out its plan last week for financing public housing by turning to the private sector. If you’re thinking, “Wait, aren’t those the same guys who just wrecked the economy?” well, that was my question too. Speaking…
Topics: Economy
Black Gov & Senators Today: 3. Next Year: 1
by Daisy Hernandez on June 4 2010, 11:50AM
At this time next year we might have one Black elected official in state office: Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick. He’s got a double-digit lead at the moment. The reality check comes courtesy of The Washington Post’s Perry Bacon Jr. who…
Topics: Politics
Ethnic Studies is Broadening, Arizona Be Damned
by Daisy Hernandez on June 3 2010, 12:00PM
The academic field’s complex growth mirrors race relations today—which is at least part of why it scares Tom Horne so much.
Topics: Schools & Youth
Did Race Cost Artur Davis the Alabama Primary?
by Daisy Hernandez on June 2 2010, 11:53AM
Alabama voters had a chance to make history last night and pick a Black Democrat nominee to run for governor but they said “No, thanks” in a big way, giving 62 percent of the vote to the state’s agriculture commissioner…
Topics: Politics
How Artur Davis Voted While Vying to be Ala.’s 1st Black Gov.
by Daisy Hernandez on June 1 2010, 1:11PM
If Congressman Artur Davis wins in today’s Alabama primary, he’ll make history becoming the first Black Democratic nominee for governor in a state where George Wallace declared “segregation forever.” But it might not be the victory we were waiting for….
Topics: Politics
M.I.A. v. NYTimes: Who’s Right?
by Daisy Hernandez on May 28 2010, 4:14PM
Rapper M.I.A. tweeted off yesterday at New York Times Magazine writer Lynn Hirschberg, apparently in retribution for a profile published this week suggesting the rapper’s naive about politics and more interested in the spectacle than the struggle. In a nod…
Topics: Arts & Culture
by Daisy Hernandez on May 27 2010, 4:34PM
President Obama said today that BP is responsible for what’s estimated to be the worst oil spill in U.S. history, but the federal government is telling the company how to fix the situation.
Topics: Environment, Gulf Oil Spill
New Study: Immigration Lowers Crime
by Daisy Hernandez on May 27 2010, 11:49AM
Immigration peaked during the 1990s in the U.S. while the rates of robberies and murders dropped. Coincidence? We think not and neither does Tim Wadsworth, a University of Colorado professor, who—using Census data and FBI crime reports—found that in 459…
Topics: Immigration
Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Expected, But Not Embraced
by Daisy Hernandez on May 26 2010, 12:52PM
Obama and Congressional Democrats have come to an agreement with military officials that might lead to a repeal the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy later this week. But, Lt. Dan Choi, who was ousted from the military for coming…
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California’s Homeless Farm Workers
by Daisy Hernandez on May 13 2010, 2:44PM
New America Media’s Jacob Simas posted a heartbreaking story and video yesterday about farm workers in Fresno who are creating makeshift homes of tarp and garbage bags in the same fields they once harvested. The fields have been abandoned…
Topics: Economy
Haitians Call on President to Resign
by Daisy Hernandez on May 13 2010, 2:32PM
About two thousand Haitians took to the streets this week demanding that President Rene Preval leave office, saying he’s using the devastating earthquake as a reason to stay in power and to share that power with foreigners. Elections are supposed…
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Phoenix Ranks #2 Among Best Cities for College Grads
by Daisy Hernandez on May 12 2010, 2:52PM
It used to be that “best of” lists were confined to the best dressed at the Golden Globes and the best children’s books to read. But we’re living in gringolandia where the goal is not just to have more but…
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by Daisy Hernandez on May 11 2010, 6:45PM
With the health care win behind them, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the fastest growing union in the country, is now turning its sights on immigration, according to The Ballot Box, one of The Hill’s blogs. Javier Morillo, SEIU’s…
Topics: Immigration
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