COLORLINES: YOUNG, GREEN AND BROKE

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October 8, 2009 ColorLines Direct. News and commentary from ColorLines magazine and RaceWire blog. Rinku Sen and Billy Parish: Young, Green and Broke The percentage of young people without a job is a staggering 53.4 percent, the highest figure since World War II. Looking deeper, the statistics for youth of color are terrible and telling.   Sept/Oct 2009 Issue Online Now! Punishing Youth with Deportation A San Francisco policy punishes already vulnerable immigrant students for life. Discriminatory Housing Lockouts Amid Post-Katrina Rebuilding St. Bernard Parish has the support of Alice Walker and Oprah Winfrey, but continues to exclude Black residents.     Attend “Ethnic Studies Beyond the Academy,” Friday @ San Francisco State University We’ll be at “Ethnic Studies 40 Years Later: Race Resistance and Relevance” this week, an academic conference celebrating the 40th anniversary both of the founding of the field of Ethnic Studies and the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State, October 7-10, 2009.White House Raises Hopes for Kinder, Gentler Immigrant Detention Soon, undocumented immigrants may be eligible to enjoy an expense-paid hotel stay just before being jetted off to their country of origin, never to see their families again, courtesy of the federal government. Celebrating Henrietta Lacks’ “Immortal” Life After Death Just days before her diagnosis with cancer, Lacks had been one of 10,000 who participated in a march demanding a cure for polio. In 1954 Jonas Salk developed that cure. He did it using cells from the cancer in the body of Henrietta Lacks. “Greasy Like Chicken”: Chris Rock’s ‘Good Hair’ Pitch Takes a Nap on Race and Gender [VIDEO] Can the history of Black hair politics really be summed up in a 95 minute documentary?       “Care”: Word Means the Public’s Health Isn’t Optional [VIDEO] With Max Baucus sinking the public option in committee, and debate still raging about our national health crisis, let’s take a step back and look at the fundamentals of our conversation.   ARC has more important and urgent stories to share in the coming months, but we need your help to bring them to light. Please consider a donation of $10 toward our next ColorLines Direct email. ColorLines Direct is the weekly news update of the Applied Research Center (ARC) sent to subscribers, supporters and participants in ARC’s activities. ARC publishes ColorLines Magazine, Racewire.org and most recently hosted The Compact for Racial Justice Phone Forums.

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