The Associate Press reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson are petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ban purchase of sugar-sweetened sodas with food stamps. more>

Park Avenue Christian Church  hosted a prayer breakfast for religious leaders on Sept. 15th.  more>

Calif. gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman denies knowingly employing undocumented worker. more>

Project Vote says media fascination with the Tea Party has drowned out the voices of a large and growing component of the electorate: black voters, young voters, and lower income voters. more>

Maryland's crab industry employs immigrants who come to the US legally through a guest worker program, AFP TV reports. more>

Panel discussion with domestic workers and advocates engaged in movements to protect the human rights of domestic workers and re-value their labor at a forum held at the United Nations in March 2010. more>

Project Vote says media fascination with the Tea Party has drowned out the voices of a large and growing component of the electorate: black voters, young voters, and lower income voters. more>

Panel discussion with domestic workers and advocates engaged in local, national, and international movements to protect the human rights of domestic workers and re-value their labor AT a forum held at the United Nations in March 2010. more>

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow talks to Jim Russel, a Republican candidate seeking to unseat incumbent Rep. Nita Lowey in Westchester. Russel has been criticized by Anti-Defamation League as a "white supremacist with anti-Semitic overtones." more>

Russia Today asks people on the streets of New York City: About 44 million Americans, or 1 in 7, live below the poverty level. What or who is to blame? more>

Maryland's crab industry employs immigrants who come to the US legally through a guest worker program, AFP TV reports. more>

Calif. gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman denies knowingly employing undocumented worker. more>

Russia Today asks people on the streets of New York City: About 44 million Americans, or 1 in 7, live below the poverty level. What or who is to blame? more>

A group of Marquette students marched for the Dream Act on Tuesday Sept. 21. WISN TV News reports. more>

Marc Morial of the National Urban League endorses One Nation Working Together. more>

Unemployment rates for Hispanic women are increasing more than most during this recession. KOLD News reports. more>

Black leaders in New York State denounced Carl Paladino. more>

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow invites us to meet Jim Russel. more>

Unemployment rates for Hispanic women are increasing more than most during this recession. KOLD News reports. more>

A group of Marquette students marched for the Dream Act on Tuesday Sept. 21. WISN TV News reports. more>

Black leaders in New York State denounced Carl Paladino. more>

Second Opinion TV explores the issue of health care disparities with a panel of physicians and other experts. more>

Second Opinion TV explores the issue of health care disparities with a panel of physicians and other experts. more>

Religious leaders Combat 'fear and intolerance' over Islamic center. Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism denounced anti-Muslim Bigotry. more>

A recent poll indicates a growing number of Americans incorrectly believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim, despite Obama's repeated statements that he is a Christian. more>

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is planning measures to counter the recently stepped-up anti-Islam campaign in the United States. Press TV reports. more>

Representatives of Native American Tribes and organizations call on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to apologize for his racially insensitive remarks telling Governor Paterson to 'Get yourself a cowboy hat and a shotgun' to confront tribes selling cigarettes on their reservation. more>

The president's HEMP plan did nothing to save the average or middle class Americans home, making the housing crisis worse. more>

A proposed Islamic cultural center that would include a mosque just blocks from the World Trade Center continues to inspire fiery debate. CBS's Michelle Miller reports. more>

Candidate Charles Barrron, City Councilman from Brooklyn, spoke with Capitol News Tonight. more>

Many republicans want a major change in the Constitution targeting the 14th Amendment that grants citizenship to babies born in the U.S. even if their parents are illegal immigrants. Jan Crawford of CBS reports. more>

Gwen Ifill gets three views from Rev. Welton Gaddy of Interfaith Alliance, Professor Abdullahi An-na'im, and Cynthia Mahmood a senior fellow at the University of Notre Dame on the controversy surrounding the construction of Islamic Center near Ground Zero. more>

Democracy Now video of Sonia Guinansaca speaking at the Dream Act protest outside of the office of Senator Charles Schumer. more>

South Brunswick School District has added two Muslim holidays to its school calendar. more>

Members and leaders of DC 37 and other city unions rallied June 16 at City Hall to stop budget cuts and layoffs that would devastate city services. They rallied in support of the vital services they provide throughout the city every day at our schools, hospitals, senior centers, firehouses, libraries, museums, parks, pools, and more. more>

The organization "NO More Deaths, has been providing water in the desert to prevent any more death following the thousands that have occurred. Democracy Now reports. more>

Mike Wilson a native american humanitarian of the Tohono O'odham Nation finds his water station vandalized. more>

For the first time in its history, this racially and culturally diverse Teaneck, New Jersey has a Muslim mayor. Mayor Mohamed Hameeduddin spoke with NJN Public Television about his first challenge. more>

The Obama administration was forced to apologize to Shirley Sherrod after she was summarily dismissed from the USDA after an edited tape apparently depicting her making racist comments went viral on the internet. Jan Crawford of CBS reports. more>

The Virtual Senior Center is an innovative demonstration project made possible by a public-private partnership between Selfhelp Community Services, Microsoft, the New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA) and Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT). more>

A Muslim U.S. citizen from Virginia, Yahya Weheli, was stranded for weeks in Cairo because his name is on the No-Fly List. more>

NAACP President Ben Jealous says tea party supporters need to publicly condemn racist behavior among some of the group's members. The civil rights organization accused tea party activists of tolerating bigotry. more>

CBS News reports on the fate of the children of Russian agents exchanged in a spy swap and how they are coping with the international scandal. more>

NY State Assemblyman Rory Lancman and Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) speak about the recent passing of the Taxi Driver Protection Act. more>

Learn how you can break the cycle of intergenerational incarceration by visiting Children of Promise, NYC at www.cpnyc.org. more>

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-California) spoke from the House floor in support of HR 4173 - the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Key provisions written by the Congresswoman to assist homeowners, protect consumers, empower shareholders and increase opportunities for minorities and women were included in the final bill that passed the House today. more>