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As California prepares to start shrinking its prison system, advocates see more peril than promise.

By Leticia Miranda

New mobile site for ColorLines.com. More changes in 2010.

A web of structural factors, including lack of health insurance, contribute to the wave of diagnoses.

Deportees struggle to survive in an unfamiliar and unwelcoming place: the country of their birth.

Families of color are punished twice by immigration and criminal justice systems that don’t provide equal justice.

"Precious" is a haunting film that stays silent on how the political realities of 1980s Harlem shaped women.

The new film "Treeless Mountain" shows the spirit of two girls and their country.

News to make you doubt your sanity or at least start a petition.

The good (and sometimes great) things people of color made happen.

Ruth Brown And Q-Tip Are Back
Nov 6, 2009 A survey of soul history, and a glimpse at the future of hip-hop.

Film Review: Barking Water
Oct 28, 2009 Director Sterlin Harjo tells the story of true loves who are always leaving each other.

A Stone for Women's Stories
Nov 6, 2009 Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's new novel explores generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women's struggle.