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Sept/Oct 2008
The Accidental American. Sept. 11 was a collective trauma. For some immigrants, it also shifted their politics.
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July/August 2008
Home from the Military. A third of female veterans are women of color. Here are three of their stories.
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May/June 2008
We're here. We're sexual. Get use to it.. Abstinence programs have failed teens of color: Now young people are telling adults to get our of the way of their sex education.
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March/April 2008
Who Gains From the Green Economy?. Making sure the "green wave" doesn’t leave out communities of color.
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Jan/Feb 2008
The Innovators. The Innovators. Our list of people with great ideas in 2008; Elvira Arellano's motherly influence on immigrant rights; Becoming a Black Man - how transitioning gender changes the way race in perceived.
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Nov/Dec 2007
Killed by the Cops. A national investigation with The Chicago Reporter A multimedia presentation of our three-part investigation: Why New York City's victims of police shootings are overwhelmingly people of color; how Phoenix has become the most dangerous city in the nation for Latinos; and what it means for accountability when Chicago cops named in wrongful death lawsuits receive minimal internal discipline.
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Sept/Oct 2007
Genetic Drift. Is race being redefined? New eugenics, DNA profiling, and other reasons why your genes matter.
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July/August 2007
The Road Out of Iraq. An excerpt from Camilo Meija's new book; Latinas making moves on the big screen; Rinku Sen asks if immigrants are people of color; The New Environmentalists; Gulf Coast Watch; News, Reviews and much more...
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May/June 2007
A Game of Monopoly.
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March/April 2007
What doesn't your doctor see?. Kai Wright on the "colorblind" attack on healthcare; REAL IDs for immigrants; The Segregated Blogosphere; Celebrity Colonialism; Hussein Ibish; and Professor Dorian Warren goes beyond the hype surrounding Barack Obama.
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Jan/Feb 2007
The Innovators. The Innovators. Our list of the people moving Big Ideas in 2007. A New Window on the World. Kids of color fight for deaf education. Kevin Powell talks politics. Aisha Shahidah Simmons confronts sexual violence in her new film.
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Nov/Dec 2006
The Fiction Issue. ColorLines first fiction issue offers original work by Edwidge Danticat. Also in this issue, a spotlight on Cherokee author Daniel Heath Justice, Nigerian novelist Chris Abani and a report on the boom in young adult novels.
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Sept/Oct 2006
The Welfare Nanny Diaries. The Sept/Oct issue is available on newsstands now. The Welfare Nanny Diaries; A Muslim newspaper that began after 9/11 now thrives; Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple; Shutting down Muslim charities; Raw deals and sub-prime mortgages; Q&A with broadcast journalist Maria Hinojosa.
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July/August 2006
The Next Katrina?. Disastrous Inequality. If disaster strikes southern California, the effects could be devastating; Race and the debate over adoption; Food and land struggles connect movements across the globe; Music production moves young people from corporate media to creativity.
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Spring 2006
The Katrina Issue. The Eye of the Storm. Katrina exposes racial fault lines; Residents who want to rebuild get private security forces instead; Immigrants take a hard look at companies that profit from remittances; Black Men, Asian Women: Exploring fantasy and reality, starting with TV hospital dramas.
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Winter 2005
The Sex Issue. Policing the behavior of people living with HIV, the boom of sex talk on Spanish-language radio, black women working in the porn industry, acclaimed artist Kehinde Wiley painting masculinity anew. Plus stories about organizing after Katrina, what the new labor coalition may deliver for workers of color, and the safety of Vietnamese workers in nail salons.
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Fall 2005
The Age Issue. Don't Forget about Us: Young people in the Social Security fight; Dismantling Social Security Race becomes a red herring; Jeff Chang looks at how hip-hop tried to deliver leadership for a post-civil rights world; A Brooklyn organization helps elderly lesbians and gays stay out of the closet in the golden years; A growing critique of Chicana/o Studies and the Chicano movement.
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Summer 2005
The Food Issue. Got Tradition? American Indians use native foods to fight diabetes and revive Indian culture; Wal-Mart is touting not just lower prices but racial equity in its push for expansion into poor, urban communities; A Pakistani artist explores the shame and pride of her community's bathroom practices.
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Spring 2005
FEATURING: For the Soul of the Church. The Episcopal Church has captured international headlines in what many see as a new phase of the U.S. culture wars; How Hindu nationalist organizations fund ethnic violence with money raised in the U.S.; Makani Themba-Nixon on Religiosity and the Roots of Black Conservatism.
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Winter 2004
The Sex Issue. Playing with Race Racialized BDSM is on the rise; people of color talk about why they will or won't play. Also: How Can I Be Down? Juba Kalamka's take on "the down low," High-Speed Outsourcing, Jobs, workers and rights in the age of capital flight.
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Fall 2004
Between Two Americas by Bill Ong Hing. Also: Running on Race, Barack Obama wants to become the third black U.S. Senator in history, To the Point, Suheir Hammad answers Samuel Huntington, whose controversial new book blames Latino immigration for causing an American identity crisis.
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Summer 2004
Special Section: Broken Promises. Also: The Future of Brown, Victor Goode revisits the history of one of the linchpins of the civil rights movement, Terror City, Suleman Din visits Jersey City, NJ, to find out what are the lasting effects of the FBI?fs anti-terror campaign.
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Spring 2004
Special Section: Global South Rising. Also: Francis Calpotura interviews one of Asia’s leading critics of globalization, Walden Bello; Kim Fellner looks into the contradictions of coffee, class, and race; Evalyn Tennant asks what can the immigrant rights agenda learn from the Free South Africa Movement?
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Winter 2003
Special Section: Framed! Spinning Race in the media. Also: A crackdown on Latina day care workers in Mattawa, WA, Hua Hsu reviews Vivek Bald’s music documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music.
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Fall 2003
Special Report: Protest and Art. Also: Alternative Medicine, Repeal of Rockefeller Drug Laws, Puerto Rican indigenous identity, Politicking the Border, Spy Cops, Robin D.G. Kelley on the "Scottsboro Boys."
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Summer 2003
Special Section:Enemies of the State.. Also: The Genetics of Difference; Combating Coca-Cola and the Global Conquistadores; Culture-Trafficking for the 21st Century; and more.
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Spring 2003
Special Section: Colorblind: Higher Education.. Also: Don�t Dismiss Hip-Hop; Timeline: Under Homeland Security; War�s Racial Edge; Inside Detention; Cool Commodities; and more.
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Winter 2002
Special Report:. Also: Hmong-town, USA; Urban Islam and the War on Terror; Live in Your World, Play in Ours; The Best Interest of the Child; and more.
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Fall 2002
Special Report: Child Welfare.. Also: Ethnic Media Grows Up; Losing the Funding Game; A Place at the UN Table; Portrait of the Assimilartist and more.
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Summer 2002
Special Report: Race and Recession.. Also: From Sweatshop to Hip-Hop; South Africa in Focus: Second of a Two-Part Series; Detained or Disappeared?; and more.
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Spring 2002
Special Report: A New Era: Race After 9/11.. Also: Devil’s in the Details; South Africa in Focus: First of a Two-Part Series; A Woman’s Place; "Agh, a Negro!"; Locas Rule; and more.
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Winter 2001
Special Report: Food Fights. Also: Reflections on 9-11: What Now?; Power to the People!; It's Personal: Race and Oprah; Anticorporate Manifesto; Sweatshop Warriors; Hiding Race; Multiracial Activists Follow Connerly's Lead; The Devil's Ranchos; and more.
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Fall 2001
Special Report: Race World: UN Conference Against Racism, South Africa. Also: Unsettled Refugees; Underground Revolution; Where Do We Stand?; and more.
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Summer 2001
Special Report: Race Across Borders -- Immigrant Movements. Also: First Line of Defense;Where Goes the South…; Real Reforms; The Making of a Warrior Woman; After the War Years; Vocal Acts; Out Loud and Proud; and more.
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Spring 2001
Special Report: Racial Conflict/Racial Unity. Also: White Power in Election 2000; A Nation Incarcerated; Counting in the Dark; Betting on Sovereignty; Race and the Revolution; Where Art Means Politics: La Peña's 25th Anniversary; and more.
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Winter 2000
The Color of Violence Against Women.. Also: The Voucher Trap; Letters to Alinsky; Talking Race to the Media; Black Belt Justice; Southern Exposure; Cultural Weaponry; White Lie: 'The Victory of Women's Sports'; and more.
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Fall 2000
Special Section: The New Welfare Rights Movement. Also: The Color of Violence Against Women; Rebuilding the Anti-Violence Movement; Globalism and Race at A16 in D.C.; The New Racial Politics of Social Security; "Here's the Movement, Let's Start Building": An Interview with Barbara Smith; A Luta Continua: The Irrepressible Richie Perez; "Screaming Our Thoughts": Latinos and Punk Rock; The Indian Is Coming; and more.
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Summer 2000
Special Section: Organizing in the 21st Century. Also: The Colonizer's Story: The Supreme Court Violates Native Hawaiian Sovereignty -- Again; The Soul of Soulless Conditions: Dalits in Contemporary India; Changing The Rules: What Public Policy Means For Organizing; Global Brahmanism: The Meaning of the WTO Protests, An Interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva; Flipping the Ivory Tower: Lani Guinier Takes on Academia;World Games: The U.S. Tries To Colonize Sport; Past Nationalism: Karl Evanzz on Elijah Muhammed, Louis Farrakhan, and the Nation of Islam; and more.
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Spring 2000
Special Section: Race, Gender & Sports. Also: Where Was the Color in Seattle?: Looking for reasons why the Great Battle was so white; Race in the New Millenium; Bring Me the Foot of Oñate; The WTO and the Meaning of Solidarity; Zero Tolerance and Racial Bias: An Interview with Jesse Jackson; CD-ROM Helps Organizers Confront Institutional Racism; AfroFuturism: Past-Future Visions; "One Big Life": Asian American Documentarists Carve Out a Niche; and more.
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Winter 1999
Special Section: Domestic Militarization -- The Wars At Home. Also: Choose Your World: Racial Identity in Portugal and the New Europe; Hanging Up on Black Detroit; A New Standoff at Pine Ridge; Black and White and Hip-Hop All Over: Reading “The Boondocks”; Subcomandante Manu: An Interview with Manu Chao; and more.
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Fall 1999
Special Section: Race, Borderlands, & the 'Burbs. Also: Community and Labor Relations: the INS Plays "Good Cop"; Legacies of Contempt: The Indian Trust Debacle; Interview with Gloria Anzaldúa; Serious Pictures: Steven Spielberg's Cinema of Salvation; Out of Bounds: Don Byron Makes Music Beyond Category-- And Gets Away With It; Why Mumia Abu-Jamal Must Be Free by Alice Walker; and more.
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Summer 1999
Special Section: The State of Ethnic Studies. Also: Asian and Latino Labor Activism; The NAACP at 90; Funk Music & Black Power; Images of South Africa in the Wake of Revolution; Anti-Arab Racism & US Foreign Policy; The U.K. Debates Race; and more.
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Spring 1999
Special Section: Race & Education. Also: Hawaiian Sovereignty; Patricia Williams & Angela Oh; Basquiat; Korean Sex Workers; and more.
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Winter 1998
Special Section: Youth & Violence. Also June Jordan; Robin Kelley; Puerto Rican Statehood; Sherman Alexie; and more.
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Fall 1998
Special Section: The Prison Industrial Complex. Cover story by Angela Davis; Also: Ozomatli; Bulworth; New York Taxi Strike; and more.
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Summer 1998
Premier Issue! Special Section: What Happened to the Revolt of the Black Athlete?. Also: Native Sovereignty Under Fire; The Many Colors of Death; Organizing for Black-Brown Unity; and more.
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From the Archives
Video: Bullets in the Hood Nov/Dec 2007 Excerpt from 2004 documentary produced by ProTV and the Downtown Community Television Center
Turning to Tasers Nov/Dec 2007 Phoenix police became the first in the country to use Tasers, but will that decrease shootings?
Black, Latino Suburbs Have Most Shootings Nov/Dec 2007 In Chicago suburbs, more police shootings have occurred in communities with large black or Latino populations.
Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex Fall 1998 What is the Prison Industrial Complex? Why does it matter? Angela Y. Davis tells us. (From Special Section: Prison Industrial Complex)

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