A Look at Cinco de Mayo Celebrations
by Hatty Lee on May 4 2012, 10:00AM
How will you celebrate this weekend?
Topics: Arts & Culture
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VideoA Look at Cinco de Mayo Celebrations
by Hatty Lee on May 4 2012, 10:00AM
How will you celebrate this weekend?
Topics: Arts & Culture
This Is What Trayvon Solidarity Looks Like
by Hatty Lee on April 3 2012, 9:18AM
The tradition of visually memorializing black men killed in disturbing violence has taken on particular resonance in Trayvon Martin’s death. Hatty Lee rounds up images of solidarity.
Topics: Arts & Culture, Trayvon Martin
First Lady Michelle Obama Strikes the Heisman Pose [Photos]
by Jorge Rivas on March 23 2012, 1:06PM
It’s hard to say who strikes a better Heisman pose, the First Lady or the President.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
The Unique Importance of This Year’s International Women’s Day
by Hatty Lee on March 8 2012, 9:06AM
While Washington squabbles over the right to control female bodies, women around the globe have long been fighting back, speaking up, and creating change.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
Ru Paul as Mr. and Mrs. Obama in Honor of Presidents Day [Photo]
by Jorge Rivas on February 20 2012, 1:57PM
Ru Paul wishes you a very happy Presidents Day.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
Ohio Univ. Students to Classmates: ‘We’re a Culture, Not a Costume’
by Jorge Rivas on October 25 2011, 9:26AM
Controversy surrounding racist Halloween costumes have become a routine part of the holiday on college campuses. Some Ohio University students decided to get in front of the problem this year—and they’re making a national sensation doing so.
Topics: Halloween, Schools & Youth
Homeowners to Banks: Clean Up the Mess You Left in Our Neighborhood
by Kai Wright, Sita Bhaumik on September 29 2011, 10:02AM
Amid all the deficit and campaign talk, it’s easy to forget the foreclosure crisis continues to destroy neighborhoods. Community organizers in East Oakland got fed up and delivered the dirty problem to its source.
Topics: #Occupy, Economy, Kai Wright
A Wrenching Night of Global Solidarity as Georgia Kills Troy Davis
by Stokely Baksh on September 22 2011, 9:40AM
As the world watched, hundreds gathered outside the prison where Troy Davis was killed last night. They prayed for a more humane and equitable criminal justice system. Now that Davis is slain, the question is how to make that reform real.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Troy Davis
A Family Affair: Who’s Left Behind After the FBI’s Fake Terror Stings
by Lyric Cabral on September 8 2011, 9:30AM
The FBI is paying thousands of untrained informants to spy on law-abiding Muslim Americans. The program has justified itself with a series of prosecutions that are as questionable as they are high-profile. Here are the families who were left behind.
Topics: 9/11 Anniv., National Security, Photo
Cute Kids Alert! Images of Back-to-School Day, 2011
by Hatty Lee on August 26 2011, 9:19AM
We’re always going on about the big, mean policy debates shaping public eduction. We figured we owed you a reminder of what it’s all about: Adorable kids! Look, smile and send your own.
Topics: Back to School, Schools & Youth
New Yorkers Show Their Love at This Year’s Gay Pride Parade
by Jorge Rivas on June 27 2011, 5:25PM
Late on Friday, the state became the third and most populous state in the country to allow same sex couples to wed. That’s a great way to get the party started.
Topics: Celebrate Love, LGBT Pride 2011
Javier Sicilia’s Poetry in Motion Against the U.S.-Mexico Drug Wars
by Debbie Nathan on June 14 2011, 8:56AM
After losing his son to drug violence, a renowned Mexican artist set out on a cross-country trek to dramatize the death that our failed, militaristic response to narcotics has spawned.
Topics: Dispatches, Drug War, Global Affairs
19 Years After L.A.’s Uprising, What’s Changed?
by Thoai Lu, Hatty Lee on May 4 2011, 8:51AM
Black, brown and Asian communities are still searching for answers two decades after one of the nation’s deadliest urban uprisings.
Topics: History
The Casual Violence That Dehumanizing Language Breeds
by Mónica Novoa on April 20 2011, 9:21AM
José Gutiérrez Guzmån is the most recent person to suffer out-of-scale violence from border agents, but he won’t be the last if we continue robbing migrants of their humanity.
Topics: Drop the I-Word, Immigration
Arizona Students Are Teaching Us How To Fight Back
by Rinku Sen on April 8 2011, 10:52AM
Don’t go to Arizona looking for beat-down brown people. Young people are full of creative opposition and practical solutions.
Topics: Immigration, Rinku Sen
What Did Asian American Resistance Look Like in the 1970’s?
by Hatty Lee on March 4 2011, 4:59PM
A new collection of artwork highlights art and political resistance in San Francisco.
Topics: Arts & Culture
U.S. Lags in School Lunch Makeovers, and We’ve Got Photos
by Hatty Lee, Jamilah King on March 2 2011, 5:18PM
Too bad there’s no late pass for student health.
Topics: How We Eat
Scenes from National Wisconsin Solidarity Rallies
by Jamilah King on February 28 2011, 12:40PM
From Sacramento to Raleigh, Salem to Atlanta, ordinary workers stand up for their rights.
Topics: Wisconsin
Black Male Models Only Used as Props
by Jorge Rivas on February 16 2011, 4:00PM
Sure, they’re out there. But maybe not in a good way.
Topics: Arts & Culture
Today’s Love Goes to Egypt’s People Making History
by Jorge Rivas on February 11 2011, 5:20PM
The world has joined in their moment of celebration.
Topics: Celebrate Love
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