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Hundreds of protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge towards Manhattan on Thursday, July 29 in protest against Arizona's SB 1070 Bill, NYCMA interns Maria Karagianni and Stacey E. Williams report.
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newsPolice turning immigrants with criminal backgrounds over to ICEThis year news is circulating in the NYC Chinese community that more and more immigrants, both legal and undocumented, are being investigated on account of previous criminal records and even deported. more> NYPD pose obstacles to non-citizen victims of violence to obtain U visaRepresentatives of at least four organizations will testify before the City Council about the NYPD's negligence in providing the certifications to victims of domestic violence who have cooperated with the Department.
VIDEO :: Last Week, NYC Public Advocate Bill Di'Blasio with a coalition of City Council members, called for a change in police and court procedures in domestic violence cases. more> Youth gangs in Brooklyn, a growing problemIt's becoming a nightmare for Caribbean youth, a headache that begins with youth gang criminal activity on neighborhood streets but usually ends with a stint in state prison.
VIDEO :: Students traded a day off from school on President's Day for a day of brainstorming about how to take back their neighborhoods from gangs, which have turned them into battlefields. NY1's Natasha Ghoneim reported. more> Dominican Republic changes constitution to allow citizens abroad to elect representativesIn Northern Manhattan and the Bronx – which combined are home to the largest community of Dominicans outside of the small Caribbean island – the idea that Dominican Americans would have another layer of elections raises numerous questions and could disrupt the already fractious political world. more> Census under fire over ad dollarsOver $340 million has been allocated to the Census Bureau for a promotion and advertising campaign to avoid an undercount, part of an overall Census budget of $15 billion, triple the bureau's 2000 budget. But with just five weeks to go before the April 1 deadline for mailing back Census questionnaires, lawmakers wondered if that money was being targeted effectively. |
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editorialsNegroes who gain high office must walk like angelsAfrican Americans waited more than a generation for the congressman Charlie B. Rangel to rise to the position where he could really affect change, and as soon as he attained real power, there were those who began to plot his demise.
VIDEO :: Hon. James David Manning, pastor of the ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem, explains why he believes Congressman Charles Rangel stepped down from the Way and Means committee. more> No pass for domestic violenceGreat strides have been made locally and nationally in how domestic violence is treated by law enforcement. But the crime of domestic violence remains minimized and excused unlike any other crime. Generation mixedBiracial people are often urged to choose a side or a parent to define their identity as individuals. Nevertheless, the ambiguity of their status too easily eclipses their unique and rich experience.
VIDEO :: Four biracial children, ages 4 to 9, shared their feelings on being biracial. more> briefs |
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NYCMA holds training workshop for ethnic media journalists on Elections 2010
New York: New York Community Media Alliance hosted the first of two workshops -- Elections 101: NYC, Albany and the Elections 2010 -- on Thursday, July 15 at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism.
Student Internship
NYCMA Launches Summer 2010 Ethnic Media Internship Program!
Interns and director of Baruch College H.S. journalism program Katina Paron at their orientation meeting. - Photo by Jehangir Khattak.
NYCMA is thrilled to announce the start of our summer internship program. We are able to place high school seniors with a passion for journalism in the real world of pad and pen. Students are given a rare insight and understanding into the power and function of New York's community media and the ability to hone writing skills in preparation for a career in journalism. This program is made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor.
NYCMA holds first Net Neutrality Conference for ethnic media, Announces Writing Challenge
Helen Brunner, Director of the Media Democracy Fund addressing the inaugural session of NYCMA Forum on Communications Policy and its Possible Effects on Ethnic Media and Their Communities. – Photo by Zooey Salazar
New York Community Media Alliance hosted its first conference on Communications Policy and its Possible Effects on Ethnic Media and Their Communities, Tuesday, June 8 at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. In attendance were journalists from a range of publications as well as many communications justice activists – all who sought to expose the connections between communications policy and the everyday life of community members. The conference also focused on wireless services and how their policies affect communities.
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein addressing NYCMA Fellows
Chancellor Klein explained the challenges the DOE faces in the current environment of budgetary cuts and answered journalists' questions as part of NYCMA's eight-month long Ethnic and Community Press Fellowship -- Developing an Education Beet-II on April 8. – Photo by A. Sherpa
FPI releases data about unemployment rates for New York City residents
Fiscal Policy Institute has released a fuller set of data, with detail on immigrant unemployment by gender, and comparing recent immigrants with those who have been here more than 10 years. This is a data release from the Fiscal Policy Institute that is not connected with a full report. For information to explain how to read this data and comment on what it means, please contact David Dyssegaard Kallick (212-721-7164, ddkallick@fiscalpolicy.org), or James Parrott (212-721-5624, parrott@fiscalpolicy.org)