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Poll: Ethnic Voters and Young People Key to California’s Support of Obamacare 27 Aug 2013 | 01:05 pm
SACRAMENTO -- A strong majority of ethnic voters and young people in California support the Affordable Care Act, according to the results of a new Field Poll. The broad support from ethnic voters an.....
Mexican Transgender Women Deported to Life of Peril 27 Aug 2013 | 12:15 pm
Editor's Note: Mexico is one of the world's most dangerous places to be transgender. But as lawmakers try to change that, transgender women who are deported confront a social backlash that makes their...
South Carolina Restaurant Denies Service to Black Group 27 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
Michael Brown, a black South Carolinian, and two dozen of his family members and friends were asked to leave a Wild Wing Cafe in Charleston because a white customer complained that she felt threatene...
Massive Toxic Spill Guts Alberta 27 Aug 2013 | 02:03 am
A toxic waste spill, the largest of its kind in North America, has destroyed a chunk of landscape in northern Alberta. "The substance is the inky black colour of oil, and the treetops are brown," rep...
Colin Powell Talks Race, March on Washington and Voter ID 27 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was on “Face the Nation” yesterday, and just as he did last week in North Carolina, he read the Republican Party on their recent questionable policy decisions. ...
Why Are So Few Chinese Youth Applying for DACA? 26 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm
A year after a deportation reprieve became available to undocumented youth, analysts are noticing a trend: Very few Chinese immigrants are applying for it. “We suspected this was the case, that there...
50 Years Later, Civil Rights Leaders Face Bigger Challenges 25 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
The 50th anniversary of the monumental 1963 March on Washington was accompanied by a wave of commemorative events that tried hard to recapture the energy and the spirit of the 1963 March. This was a t...
As CA Health Care Enrollment Begins, Advocates Make Sure No One Is Left Out 25 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
Editor’s Note: With less than six weeks before open enrollment begins for Medi-Cal and Covered California – the state’s online health insurance marketplace set up under Obamacare – health care advocat...
La. Town Founded by Ex-Slave Latest Victim of ‘Environmental Racism’ 25 Aug 2013 | 01:10 pm
(Special to the NNPA from The Final Call) – A handful of free Black men and women led by an ex-slave named Jack Moss settled along the rich bio-diverse region of Southwest Louisiana in the late 1800s,...
CA Bills Address School Discipline to Narrow Racial Achievement Gap 24 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
What accounts for the achievement gap between minority and white students? Researchers have long looked at economic differences as a key factor, but lately the role of school discipline policies has b...
