COLORLINES: HOUSE PASSES DREAM ACT, SENATE VOTE UNCERTAIN

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11 years ago

Moving
Rhetoric, Ugly Race-Baiting in House Debate on DREAM Act

Advocates win first major immigrant rights vote in decades. Julianne Hing
recaps the debate and live blogs
the Senate action.
For up to the moment news on the DREAM Act visit colorlines.com/dream

For Proof
the DREAM Act’s a Good Idea, Look at Cuban Americans

Miriam Zoila Pérez says Cubans have thrived thanks to an immigration policy
that makes the DREAM Act seem downright draconian.

Also: Hector
Lopez Knows Too Well What’s at Stake in DREAM Act
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Obama’s Tax
Cuts and Racial Justice

ColorLines editor Kai Wright blogs the reactions and outlines the real
stakes: government’s role as the great equalizer.

Also: Obama’s
Bizarre Effort to Equate Tax Cuts and
Abolition

Dispatch
From Cancun: Developing Paradise in the Suicide Capital
As world leaders gather for climate talks on
one side of town, Roberto Lovato visits the other, where the turmoil of climate change threatens hearts and
minds, too.
Superior Court Judge Denies Mehserle Bail
Meanwhile, Mehserle’s still appealing his
involuntary manslaughter
conviction for killing Oscar Grant.
Aretha Franklin’s Cancer Diagnosis Prevalent Among
Blacks
The
Queen of Soul is battling a disease that disproportionally hits African
Americans.
What You
Need to Know About the FCC’s Open Web Plan
Chairman Julius Genachowski finally spoke
this week. Few are pleased with what he said.
Five
Artists Who Are Keeping the Soul in American Music
Jamilah King celebrates the year’s
renaissance of soul music—whatever that is.
Today, Mad
Love for 8-Year-Old B-Boys
Keeping the art alive in Hawaii.
CUTENESS.