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Forty years ago, on the eve of his wedding, a young Chinese American named Vincent Chin was fatally beaten with a baseball bat on the streets of Detroit by two white men shouting anti-Asian slurs. The miscarriage of justice that followed – neither assailant served a day in jail...
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The horror of the massacre went viral. The teenage murderer was not content with cold-bloodedly massacring 10 patrons of the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and injuring a similar number, but instead transmitted the grotesque images through a video camera mounted on his military helmet. Most of the...
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A suspect in connection with the shooting deaths of six people in downtown Sacramento was released from prison less than halfway through his 10-year sentence because of credits earned behind bars, handing Assembly Republicans an opportunity to decry the state’s recent wave of criminal justice reforms. “The violence we...
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A father killed his three children and their chaperone before turning the gun on himself during a court ordered supervised visitation in a church parking lot. The horrifying incident took place in Sacramento, and it has not yet been recognized by the California Governor, Gavin Newsom, or the state’s...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters With its back to the desert, Kern County is the southernmost band of California’s conservative Central Valley. Its western border forms a jagged staircase that mimics the shape of California’s coastline without ever approaching the water. And along its rural northern border is a long-running war...
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De espaldas al desierto, el condado de Kern es la banda más meridional del conservador Valle Central de California. Su borde occidental forma una escalera dentada que imita la forma de la costa de California sin acercarse al agua. Y a lo largo de su frontera norte rural hay una...
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Joshua Collins Ethnic Media Services Bogotá, Colombia – En la vecindad de Soledad, Deisy Paricio enciende velas en una ceremonia conmemorativa por los que han muerto durante los 10 sangrientos días de protesta en Colombia. “Estamos aquí para denunciar las acciones de un régimen criminal”, dice con una determinación...
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Joshua Collins Ethnic Media Services Bogotá, Colombia– Deisy Paricio lights candles at a remembrance ceremony in the neighborhood of Soledad for those who have died during 10 bloody days of protest in Colombia. “We’re here to denounce the actions of a criminal regime,” she says, with a cold determination...
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“The most effective way to destroy a people’s community to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” This is my revised version of George Orwell’s original statement. Dolores Huerta recently sent out an email stating: “Dear Hilbert, when you’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week, add one more thing...
Forty years ago, on the eve of his wedding, a young Chinese American named Vincent Chin was fatally beaten with a baseball bat on the streets of Detroit by two white men shouting anti-Asian slurs. The miscarriage of justice that followed – neither assailant served a day in jail...
The horror of the massacre went viral. The teenage murderer was not content with cold-bloodedly massacring 10 patrons of the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and injuring a similar number, but instead transmitted the grotesque images through a video camera mounted on his military helmet. Most of the...
A suspect in connection with the shooting deaths of six people in downtown Sacramento was released from prison less than halfway through his 10-year sentence because of credits earned behind bars, handing Assembly Republicans an opportunity to decry the state’s recent wave of criminal justice reforms. “The violence we...
A father killed his three children and their chaperone before turning the gun on himself during a court ordered supervised visitation in a church parking lot. The horrifying incident took place in Sacramento, and it has not yet been recognized by the California Governor, Gavin Newsom, or the state’s...
Nigel Duara CalMatters With its back to the desert, Kern County is the southernmost band of California’s conservative Central Valley. Its western border forms a jagged staircase that mimics the shape of California’s coastline without ever approaching the water. And along its rural northern border is a long-running war...
De espaldas al desierto, el condado de Kern es la banda más meridional del conservador Valle Central de California. Su borde occidental forma una escalera dentada que imita la forma de la costa de California sin acercarse al agua. Y a lo largo de su frontera norte rural hay una...
Joshua Collins Ethnic Media Services Bogotá, Colombia – En la vecindad de Soledad, Deisy Paricio enciende velas en una ceremonia conmemorativa por los que han muerto durante los 10 sangrientos días de protesta en Colombia. “Estamos aquí para denunciar las acciones de un régimen criminal”, dice con una determinación...
Joshua Collins Ethnic Media Services Bogotá, Colombia– Deisy Paricio lights candles at a remembrance ceremony in the neighborhood of Soledad for those who have died during 10 bloody days of protest in Colombia. “We’re here to denounce the actions of a criminal regime,” she says, with a cold determination...
“The most effective way to destroy a people’s community to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” This is my revised version of George Orwell’s original statement. Dolores Huerta recently sent out an email stating: “Dear Hilbert, when you’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week, add one more thing...