Opinion: The New Black Panther Story

I don’t really watch cable news much–I get most of my news from the internet–so I wasn’t really aware that there is a brewing story going on around the Obama administration’s handling of the New Black Panther case.

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The End of an Era and a Good-Bye to a Friend of the Immigrant Community

The U.S. has entered a new era: we are on the warpath for change, any change. On Tuesday, registered democrats in Pennsylvania made clear that they wanted a changing of the guard when they voted to nominate Congressman Joe Sestak as their candidate for U.S.

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Does the Immigrant Community have a “friend” in Arizona?

It has now been several weeks since the passage of Arizona’s patently anti-immigration law, SB1070, and the fallout has just begun. Copycat anti-immigrant legislative efforts, like those that followed several years ago after Mayor Barletta of Hazelton decided that he had the absolute right to usurp federal immigration laws, have already begun to sprout up, including laws rooted once again in the originally Quaker state of Pennsylvania, whose past slogan was “You have a friend in Pennsylvania”

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Does the Immigrant Community have a “friend” in Arizona?

Does the Immigrant Community have a “friend” in Arizona?

It has now been several weeks since the passage of Arizona’s patently anti-immigration law, SB1070, and the fallout has just begun. Copycat anti-immigrant legislative efforts, like those that followed several years ago after Mayor Barletta of Hazelton decided that he had the absolute right to usurp federal immigration laws, have already begun to sprout up, including laws rooted once again in the originally Quaker state of Pennsylvania, whose past slogan was “You have a friend in Pennsylvania”. Suddenly, neither Pennsylvania nor Arizona is feeling like a very friendly state, especially if you have a “brown” face.

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U.S. colleges court Hispanic families using espanol

For some Hispanic students, navigating the college application process can be a double-whammy: Balancing high school coursework with essays and interviews, and then translating the whole system for their parents, who don’t speak English. Some venerable East Coast universities are trying to ease that burden — and tap the booming pool of Hispanic students — by offering Spanish translations of their admissions and financial aid material. Bryn Mawr College, an elite women’s liberal arts school near Philadelphia, recently launched a Spanish version of its website.

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