No. Calif. Undocumented “Dreamer” Youth Organize With Unexpected Impact

Dec 08, 2012

 RICHMOND, Calif.—Immigration issues, such as President Obama’s program to defer deportation for undocumented youth pending wider reforms, usually aren’t associated with Richmond, Calif. Across the Bay from San Francisco, Richmond has long been seen as a largely African American city...

Black Unemployment Rate Improves in November

Dec 07, 2012

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for black men 20 years old and older dramatically dropped in November as the nation's nonfarm private businesses added a better-than-expected 146,000 new jobs, causing the overall jobless rate to fall to 7.7 percent.The United...

Black Astrophysicist Helps Superman Find Home Planet

Dec 06, 2012

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of The Hayden Planetarium and an astrophysicist, appears in DC Action Comics #14 to help Superman locate Krypton, his home planet, so that he can see his home planet on the last day of its...

Support for Lower Ninth Ward Swamp Grows

Dec 06, 2012

NEW ORLEANS -- The city, state and feds all want to see Bayou Bienvenue in the Lower Ninth Ward restored to the cypress-tupelo swamp it was before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the MRGO (Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet) channel...

Many Family Caregivers Lack Training They Need

Dec 06, 2012

  SAN DIEGO--Nearly half of the 42 million Americans who look after family members are taking on jobs, such as complex medication regimes and wound care, that were formerly performed by doctors and nurses. And they need more training and...

California Same-Sex Couples Anxiously Await Supreme Court Decision

Dec 05, 2012

Image: Tran Le and Terrenz Vong march in the Los Angeles Pride Parade.When Tran Le and Terrenz Vong marched in the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade, their photo appeared on the second page of the Sing Tao Daily. The couple...

Bay Area Dance Instructor Brings Fitness to Local Latinos

Dec 05, 2012

Photo: Enrique Duarte leads his Weigh of Life dance exercise class in Richmond, Calif. (NAM/Malcolm Marshall) RICHMOND, Calif.--Like a grand marshal leading a parade, Mauricio "Enrique" Duarte leads his Weigh of Life class in exercises – squats, followed by quick...

Minority-Owned Businesses Get Crack at High Speed Rail

Dec 03, 2012

Associated Professionals and Contractors of California (APAC) is celebrating the historic inclusion of small, minority and disadvantaged business enterprise goals by the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) with a Small Business Opportunity Conference to be held Wednesday, Dec. 5. The...

A Civil Rights Warrior Remembered

Dec 02, 2012

Lawrence Guyot never encountered a fight he didn't relish and that willingness to put his body, ideals and life on the line is what those who knew him remember in the days since his death on Friday, Nov. 23.Guyot, a...