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Gay Community Hopes For Accuracy in Census 2010

New America Media, News Report, Erik Fowle, Posted: Oct 30, 2009

For the LGBT community, the 2010 Census will be a big leap forward. They'll finally be accurately counted.

A Day in the Life of Marcus Books

Post News Group, News Feature, Post Staff, Posted: Feb 01, 2010

It’s 10:00 a.m. on Friday, January 15th at the Oakland Marcus Book Store on Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. The owner, Dr. Raye Richardson is not in the store today, but the three generations of the Richardson family are all there and working.

Census Boycott Divides Immigrants

El Planeta, News Report, Ignacio Laguarda, Translated by Elena Shore, Posted: Sep 13, 2009

Some say he is a defender of immigrants; others say he is a misguided figure. The man calling for a census boycott has stirred strong responses from immigrants.

A Puerto Rican Grandmother's Lonely Old Age

New America Media/ La Raza, News Feature, Fabiola Pomareda, Translated and Edited by David Boddiger,, Posted: Sep 23, 2009

Living alone, far from her native Puerto Rico, a grandmother makes do with a non-profit organization and arroz con pollo.

California's Budget Cuts Hurt Those on Disability the Most

New America Media, Op-ed, Richard Babcock, Posted: Oct 06, 2009

To a lot of people, the budget cuts affect their bank accounts, but for people living on disability, it's a question of survival.

Invisible Among the Dispossessed: Internally Displaced Persons

New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Feb 18, 2010

An internally displaced person is virtually invisible, his story never told, and his rights nonexistent.

Mixed Review for L.A. Gang Tours

Final Call, News Report, Charlene Muhammad, Posted: Feb 01, 2010

Former gang-members have teamed up with a non-profit outreach organization to offer a look at the inner city by conducting gang tours in South Central Los Angeles.

The Saint of Drug Cartels

La Voz de San Diego, News Report, Alejandro Maciel, Posted: May 13, 2009

Mexican authorities dismantled 30 capillas dedicated to Santa Muerte in Nuevo Laredo and Tijuana in response to their strong association with drug trafficking.

School Matters: Students' 'Core Needs' Not Being Met

New America Media, Question & Answer, Carolyn Goossen, Posted: Jan 31, 2010

A leading researcher says low-income students have been hit the hardest by California's budget cuts, and that the much lauded, federal Race to the Top competition among school districts will do little to help students receive what they need most: a high quality public education.

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Poll Finds Californians in Financial Misery

California residents are united across racial and ethnic lines in viewing the state’s economic landscape as bleak and their own financial situation as worse than the previous year, according to

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