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Tonight Oakland's own Andre Ward will compete for his first world championship. At the pre-fight press conference Ward predicted he'd bring the belt back to the town. Ann ...
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The current dispute over breast cancer screening guidelines obscures the elephant in the room: environmental causes of cancer.
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Editor's Note: California Watch, a new nonprofit journalism project at the Center for Investigative, surveyed the 30 largest K-12 school districts in the state and found that ...
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This month the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) celebrated “Secure Communities’ One Year Anniversary.” The program, which checks immigration status by using booking ...
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Editor's Note: Last weekend Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, a 19-year-old gay teen was found decapitated, partially burned, and mutilated and left by the side of a road in Puerto ...
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Editor's Note: This article is part of a new collaboration between New America Media and California Watch, a new nonprofit journalism project at the Center for Investigative ...
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YO! caught up with the director of the documentary follows the lives of five Israeli and Palestinians who attend Jerusalem's only gay bar.
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As school districts across the state struggle to meet the challenges of providing a quality education with fewer resources during the economic downturn, mandated class sizes ...
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Pres. Barack Obama declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a briefing for ethnic news media ...
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Editors Note: While many newspapers are struggling with cutbacks and layoffs, Paul Waithakas publishing career is just getting started. He has published the first print issue ...
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Editor's Note: Odette Keeley, news anchor for "Stories From The Ethnic Media" on NAM's radio program, "New America Now" on 91.7 FM KALW, talks to ethnic media professionals ...
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A Special on Health Care in the United States Odette Keeley talks to: The healthcare reform bill is headed to the Senate. In order for it to pass the House, Democrats were ...
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Across the country, in churches, schools, immigrant support centers and private homes, backers of immigration reform gathered around telephones as Hispanic U.S. legislators ...
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The pattern in the shocking murder of Flor Medrano in Mid-City Los Angeles was all too familiar. There was long-term abuse by her sometime boyfriend. The abuse included verbal ...
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One young woman tells her story of getting evicted from her home, searching for new housing, and her hopes of getting out of her violent neighborhood.
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A few weeks back, New America Media co-hosted a news briefing in Washington D.C on H1NI, the serious seasonal influenza known as "swine flu." The briefing was held with The ...
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Editor's Note: Spread over almost a century, set in Uruguay, and seen through the eyes of women, Carolina De Robertis' novel Invisible Mountain is a marvelous blend of ...
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On Nov. 16, President Barack Obama met with a selected group of 500 Chinese students from different colleges in Shanghai. During the one-hour event, a wide range of topics -- ...
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In the last few weeks there has been a flurry of unsubstantiated attacks against Iran. These attacks may seem to be aimed at Iran, bu a pattern is emerging, and it suggests ...
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A Navy corpsman remembers the rage he brought home from Iraq and the abusive relationship that followed. J. Pilgrim (a pseudonym) wrote this narrative for the Veterans ...
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President Barack Obama has begun his one week, four-country visit to Asia. The fact that about half of that time will be spent in China is a measure of the importance of the ...
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Western media misread the violent Arab reactions to Saturdays World Cup match in which Egypts Pharos beat the Algerias Desert Foxes 2-0, setting up a World Cup qualifying game ...
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Editor's Note: One young mans tells his story of living on the street, his time on probation that set him up for failure, his dream of going to college and what he hopes his ...
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DALY CITY, Calif. --- The roar of the crowd inside this Filipino restaurant, Gerrys Grill was deafening, as referee Kenny Bayless stopped the fight of Manny Pacquiao and ...
