A youth-led group for homeless teens hosts weekly meetings where young people express their creativity, build self-worth and advocate for peers.
Continue Reading ››Asian community leaders say their constituents were undercounted by 35 percent in California during the last Census. This year, they say, must be different.
Continue Reading ››A dozen grassroots groups in the Rio Grande Valley are working to ensure that the massive Census undercount of 2000 remains a thing of the past. Their main tool: Gossip.
Continue Reading ››Two-dozen people who gathered in the Arizona state capitol to oppose a bill allowing payday lenders to continue doing business left without saying a word. The bill didn’t last long enough in committee for them to testify.
Continue Reading ››A national radio tour touches down in Iowa to shed light on the recession, its effects on Latino communities and the ways both could affect the debate on immigration reform.
Continue Reading ››Twelve vital ways Obama is building a foundation to improve lives of low-income people of color.
Continue Reading ››Day laborers in Seattle, led by advocates at Casa Latina, join with the Washington State Labor Council to demand compensation for unpaid wages.
Continue Reading ››Troubling data unearthed by academics and community advocates in Miami shows poor progress in tracking jobs created for minority and low-income workers.
Continue Reading ››A Muslim group announces plans to fund film and grant projects uniting people across faiths and communities in order to eliminate misperceptions about Islam.
Continue Reading ››Paying parents and other community members to ensure students’ safe passage to school may be unorthodox, but officials in violence-torn Chicago feel they have no other choice. A respected neighborhood group signs on to support the effort.
Continue Reading ››A throng of immigration-reform advocates, as well as several celebrities, are preparing a large-scale protest of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s enforcement tactics. But the sheriff is undeterred.
Continue Reading ››It's not what they learned in seminary, but pastors, rabbis and ministers are helping low-income families hold onto their homes by persuading major lending banks to modify mortgage loans.
Continue Reading ››A day before California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was to release a budget proposal expected to be draconian in its cuts to social services, a throng of community activists protested in front of his district office.
Continue Reading ››A community group in Chicago is going door-to-door as part of a pilot program to help homeowners stave off foreclosure.
Continue Reading ››The South has become the first region in the nation where a majority of public school students are poor and a more than half are also students of color.
Continue Reading ››James Perry, head of the nonprofit Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, decides to run for mayor and plunges into a hotbed of racial tension.
Continue Reading ››The offices of immigrant-advocacy workers are crowded with Arizona residents terrified of requesting medical aid for their U.S.-born children because of confusion created under a new law.
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