After 13 episodes, Glee has entered its hiatus on a high note—critical adoration, more than three million singles sold on iTunes and an ever-growing legion of self-professed “Gleeks.” But what does this show actually say about race?

Vietnamese Americans dream of a new urban farm in New Orleans but fear post-Katrina environmental hazards. Urban farming was key to helping the Vietnamese American community become among the first to return to flood-ravaged homes and restart their lives after Katrina.

Millions of young people around the world participate in social activism. According to Wiretap magazine, there are more than 600 youth-led community organizations currently creating green jobs, removing toxic waste, combating corporate pollution and fighting against violence in their communities.

There has already been considerable Oscar buzz surrounding both Mo’Nique and Sidibe, and Precious has received numerous accolades, but beneath the film was something the writer found to be problematic: a reliance on the villainization of Black matriarch.

When Calvin James was deported to Jamaica in 2004, he had no one to call.

Calvin James was separated from his family when federal immigration agents deported him to Jamaica after a lifetime living in the United States for a decade-old, non-violent drug crime.

With the Latino population set to triple by 2050, the already alarming number of cancer diagnoses in the Latino community could rise just as sharply, or even more drastically, according to a new compilation of research.

This week on New America Now -- The Campaign mounts against Lou Dobbs, Marcelo Ballve looks at the situation in Honduras and Aaron Davidman discusses his play based on a bestselling book 'The Chosen' by Chaim Potok.

This week on "Stories From the Ethnic Media": Latino activists want CNN to shut down "Lou Dobbs Tonight"; and African-Caribbean deportees are under the radar in the U.S. immigration debate.

Since September of 2006, St. Bernard Parish has been aggressive in passing racially discriminatory laws and ordinances.

The City of Refuge's doctrine of Radical Inclusion casts a wide net around the castaways of conventional churches. It's an emerging trans-denominational philosophy that aims to provide safe, affirming space for those wounded by “oppressive,” traditional religion.

As budgetary cuts are eliminating courses and cutting back aid to student, black and Latino students are going to have to shelve their dreams of earning degrees and supporting their families.

Our Krishnas and curries are now public property to be sampled, remixed, chewed up and spat out as millions of cookie-cutter lunch boxes.

Somali Americans in Minneapolis-Saint Paul have heard so much bad news lately that it's become hard to separate fiction from fact. Encircled by tales of missing youth and violence at home and abroad, the tight-knit community is wrestling with outside scrutiny and internal strife.

As the NAACP celebrated its centennial earlier this week, it would be well to remember that the dominant racial dynamic of the 21st Century is not solely black and white.

New America Media and its ethnic media partners join their editorial voices in calling for reform to the nation's immigration policy in this editorial, published by news outlets across the country to bring attention to the urgency of the issue.

UNESCO lists almost 2,500 languages worldwide as “endangered,” meaning they are at risk of falling out of use and even disappearing as fluent native speakers die and younger generations fail to take up the language.

After leaving the newspaper industry for health reasons, Sam Richard broke back into the journalism world as the managing editor of L.A. Watts Times, the leading Black print newspaper in LA.

As the recession persists and mainstream newspapers close, ethnic media outlets face a different reality.

When she transfered to Storm Lake High School in Iowa from a high school in New York, Lori Phanachone was forced to take a basic English-proficiency exam every year or face disciplinary action.

One Detroit community group trying to save homes facing foreclosures wins in court and on the streets.