New America Now: Field Poll Results, MLK in Memphis, Returning to India

New America Now, , Jan 22, 2010

An extensive field poll on the Obama presidency yields surprising results, Taylor and Bessie Rogers of StoryCorps discuss seeing Martin Luther King in Memphis, and Betty Kamath is returning to a home for the elderly in India.

Create Jobs Where the People Are

New America Media, Opinion, Arlene Holt Baker, Jan 22, 2010

America’s jobs crisis is hurting everyone. But for African Americans, it’s a catastrophe. Unless America takes immediate steps to create jobs now—jobs where the people are—the damage will become even more entrenched, threatening generations of African Americans.

Field Poll: Californians Increasingly Disappointed with the President

New America Media, News report, Sandip Roy, Jan 20, 2010

According to a new multilingual voter survey by The Field Poll, one year into the Obama presidency, voters in the nation’s biggest minority-majority state are looking at their first minority president with increasing disappointment.

Multilingual Poll Finds Californians United in Financial Misery

New America Media, News report, Annette Fuentes, Jan 19, 2010

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 a new multilingual voter survey by The Field Poll.

MLK's Dream Drained

New America Media, Commentary, Brian Miller, Jan 18, 2010

After Barack Obama’s historic election, many pundits declared that the victory had ushered in a new “post-racial” era. But a new report shows that just as the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 60s did not end racism, the election of our first African-American president does not create a post-racial society.

King Might Picket Obama for Failing the Black Poor

New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Jan 18, 2010

Obama would be an easy target for King, says commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Under Obama, one in three blacks is poor, and the president doesn't appear to be plannning to do anything about it.

Black Immigrant Rights Group Dispels Misconceptions

El Tecolote, News Report, Andres Caballero, Jan 16, 2010

The Black Alliance for Just Immigration opened a new center in Oakland, Calif., where it works to counter misinformation among African Americans about the economics of immigration.

Arab Americans Call Airport Profiling ‘Unconstitutional’

New America Media, News Report, Esther M. Gentile, Jan 13, 2010

Some Arab-American and civil rights groups say the new airport screening regulations amount to "racial profiling" for citizens of 14 predominantly Muslim nations.

After Reid, Will Blacks Finally Question Democratic Party Leaders?

New America Media, Commentary, Jasmyne A. Cannick, Jan 13, 2010

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s characterization of then-candidate Barack Obama’s chances to win the presidency because he is a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect”—well, was right, says NAM's Jasymne Cannick. But that's not the whole story.