newsChinese restaurant employees seeking to unionize face discriminationFourteen former employees of Tomo Sushi, a restaurant located on the Upper West Side, alleged that their former employer Tsu Yue Wang discriminated against unionizing workers and purposely closed shop to avoid legal responsibility. more> Another tough immigration billFilipinos are worried that a proposed bill by Arizona Republican State Senator Russell Pearce, who drafted the tough immigration bill in Arizona, will prohibit the children of illegal immigrants from becoming citizens; even though they were born on U.S. soil.
VIDEO :: A new proposal in Arizona would deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant parents. CNN reports. more> Facing deportation"I have lived and worked like a normal person and think that it doesn't make sense to deport me. But as it turns out, the authorities need legitimate reasons to let me stay here and the fact that my daughters are American citizens doesn't count," said Tatiana Miroshnik . Lady Godiva and the fight for taxation to benefit the middle and working class"Property taxes are crazy, they're not based on income, they're not democratic," said Gioia Shebar a retired teacher who formed the group taxnightmare.org, a website dedicated to battling skyrocketing tax rates that force many into foreclosure. more> $350 billion of wealth lost in communities of colorAs a joint conference committee of Congress works to reconcile two versions of the largest Wall Street financial reform since the 1930s New Deal, a new report from the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) details how widespread foreclosures have drained an estimated $350 billion from communities of color.
VIDEO :: Martin Eakes, CEO of the Center for Responsible Lending, discusses how the organization was formed. more> |
editorialsAn unusual partnership strikes a note for common senseMayor Bloomberg, now in his third and final four-year term as chief executive at City Hall, has garnered the vigorous support of some of the nation's largest corporations in a national initiative on immigration reform. It's a bold, albeit not too unexpected, partnership led by a billionaire business executive who knows what the country's corporations need to get them back to the boom days of yesteryear.
AUDIO :: President Obama renewed his call for comprehensive immigration reform on July 1, 2010 in at speech at American University. NPR's All Things Considered reports. more> Losing another Harlem institutionIn 1979 Eugene MacCabe and Randolph Guggenheimer founded North General Hospital on the premise that the people of East Harlem and Central Harlem deserved the highest quality healthcare within the boundaries of their communities. Now its services are about to disappear.
VIDEO :: Workers at North General Hospital in Harlem protested plans last Friday to replace the site with a Federally Qualified Health Care facility. NY1 reports. more> Sweet CarolinaThe fact that the Republican Party, in two conservative southern states, has opted for candidates of Indian origin, raises an interesting question: are Indian-American candidates a handy foil for the GOP straining to demonstrate its diversity credentials? more> briefs |
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CUNY new home for Voices and Ippies Awards
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is proud to be the new home for Voices That Must Be Heard. Over the next few months, we will be reaching out to community and ethnic journalists to get their feedback on Voices, as we develop our plans for expanding the publication's content and audience. Stay tuned!
ReportNYCMA releases Education Fellowship 2010 anthology
NYCMANYCMA Ethnic Media Student Internship Program
Interns and director of Baruch College H.S. journalism program Katina Paron at their orientation meeting. - Photo by Jehangir Khattak.
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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.
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