Tram is the author of We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11 . She is former editor of ColorLines magazine and now works at the California Reinvestment Coalition.
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Pushed Out and Pushing Back in New Orleans
by Tram Nguyen on April 7 2010, 12:00PM
Housing crisis? Corporate giveaways? It’s already happened in the Big Easy. There, out of demolitions and displacement, has come a new demand: housing as human right.
Topics: Economy, Katrina Recovery
by Tram Nguyen on June 30 2009, 12:00PM
Former New Orleans residents are priced out of the city’s new housing market.
Topics: Hurricane Katrina
by Tram Nguyen on September 30 2008, 12:00PM
Will Allen, a 2008 Colorlines Magazine Innovator, was recently awarded the “genius grant” $500,000 as a 2008 MacArthur Fellow.
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by Tram Nguyen on September 4 2008, 12:00PM
Blacks and Latinos are locked out, but prep classes may counter the racism of low expectations.
Topics: Schools & Youth
Ratner’s Work Connects Racial Justice and Civil Liberties
by Tram Nguyen on December 5 2007, 8:08AM
It may be baffling to some people why the American public hasn’t become outraged by the fact that our government conducts torture in our name, even in the wake of Abu Ghraib and the transformation of once-obscure terms like “rendition”…
Topics: Immigration
by Tram Nguyen on November 8 2007, 2:23PM
Daisy’s post yesterday made me think about the war on terror and the national security state in relation to the immigration debate. All too often, I think we still have one conversation over here about “post-9/11 issues” and another one…
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Honoring an Investigative Journalist
by Tram Nguyen on October 11 2007, 6:10PM
photo credit: Maynard Institute for Journalism Education This summer, on an August morning just a few blocks from the ColorLines office in downtown Oakland, Chauncey Bailey was shot to death as he walked to work. The first journalist murdered…
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by Tram Nguyen on August 24 2007, 9:10AM
It seems like the disaster in Iraq has compelled Bush to play amateur historian again. Earlier in the war, he was fond of evoking WW II, comparing Saddam to Hitler and Iraq to the “axis of evil.” As comparisons to…
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No Sanctuary: Elvira Arellano Deported Without Son
by Tram Nguyen on August 20 2007, 12:45PM
Elvira Arellano was deported to Mexico after seeking sanctuary in a church for a year. She leaves her eight year old son with friends, and promises to continue her fight for the rights of immigrant families. I met Elvira…
Topics: Immigration
Immigration bill buried; lessons and questions
by Tram Nguyen on June 28 2007, 12:05PM
Today the Senate bill died, after failing the cloture vote needed to cut off debate and move toward passage. This effectively means that immigration reform legislation is buried this year. Those of us watching the debate and working toward comprehensive…
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by Tram Nguyen on June 1 2007, 9:50AM
An L.A. Times story yesterday reported the results of a poll that found only half of Angelenos would obey official orders to evacuate in the event of a terrorist attack. The Department of Health Services report, released this week, elaborates…
Topics: Katrina
Immigrant Rights: A Question of Strategy and Vision
by Tram Nguyen on May 30 2007, 3:15PM
This is a critical time in the Senate process for immigration reform legislation. Senators are hoping to move through crucial amendment votes this Monday, and to wrap up work on the bill by the end of next week. Especially now,…
Topics: Immigration
by Tram Nguyen on May 29 2007, 12:00PM
Black communities’ struggle to return to New Orleans has national significance for an overdue debate on urban inequality.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Hurricane Katrina
Insights from Angelina and a boy named Pax
by Tram Nguyen on April 2 2007, 3:51PM
Lately, I’ve been mesmerized by the newest Angelina Jolie adoption. Maybe it’s because I’ve been spending a lot of time in airports, in need of brain candy to get me through another flight. This latest adoption also hits close to…
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by Tram Nguyen on March 2 2007, 4:06PM
Last week, Bush took a tour through the Gulf Coast, making promises to move the recovery process along. His recovery czar, Don Powell, tried to do damage control for the Administration’s continuing PR problem with Katrina, emphasizing that this was…
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REAL IDs for Immigrants; Fake Security For All
by Tram Nguyen on March 1 2007, 12:00PM
Can driver’s licenses and consular IDs hold the line for immigrant rights?
Topics: Criminal Justice
by Tram Nguyen on January 29 2007, 12:00PM
A 31-year-old single mother and undocumented immigrant, Arellano took sanctuary and became a lightning rod for a debate over the rights of immigrant families.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
by Tram Nguyen on January 15 2007, 12:00PM
Arellano has firmly asserted the reality of undocumented families and their 4 million U.S.-born children into the immigration debate.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
by Tram Nguyen on November 15 2006, 12:00PM
ColorLines executive editor Tram Nguyen explains the importance of diversifying media ownership.
Topics: Arts & Culture
The Shame of It: Tan Nguyen and Vote Suppression
by Tram Nguyen on October 25 2006, 5:28PM
Oh boy. I thought I could sit this one out with everything so busy around here. We’re on deadline and I’m getting ready to go on the road again - ironically enough, to speak and report about immigration. Maybe that’s…
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