Refugees face homelessness all over again in U.S.

By Lornet Turnbull Seattle Times staff reporter Every few weeks or so, the family of 10 would pack up and move yet again - the father and boys finding a bed or space on the floor with family friends in one part of King County, the mother and girls in another. Somali refugees who were first resettled in upstate New York before relocating here last fall, they shuffled between the homes of friends willing to put them up, sometimes sharing two- or three-bedroom units with the eight or ...

Self-proclaimed civil rights leader Glenn Beck’s history of racially charged rhetoric

Attacks on "racist" President Obama Beck: Obama is a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people." On the July 28, 2009, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Beck said of President Obama: "This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." Beck added: "I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. He has a -- this guy is, I believe, a racist...

BP Still Putting Undocumented Clean-Up Workers At Risk

By Jamilah King If it’s not one thing, it’s another. When it comes to cleaning up oil from the nation’s biggest environmental disaster, subcontractors at BP just can’t seem to get it right. The Michigan Messenger’s reporting that a Texas company that’s been contracted by BP has been hiring undocumented workers and forcing them to work ridiculous amounts of overtime in hazardous conditions: The Texas company, Halmark, has brought hundreds of workers to Batt...

Fear Resonates in the Eyes of Arizona’s Latino Residents

The following article is one of a series of accounts from students who recently returned  from Arizona. They were part of a delegation that spent a week touring the state amid  the enactment of controversial law SB 1070. The Center for New Community, a national civil rights organization based in Chicago, sponsored the trip, which included nine students from Washington D.C., New York, Chicago and Colorado. By Brendan Francis During the week of August 9, 2010 along with 12 other pe...

Gov. Jan Brewer condemns State Department report

By ANDY BAR Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer is calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to remove a reference to her state’s immigration law from a report on human rights. In a required report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the State Department said the federal government's challenge to the Arizona law that requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they stop or detain was an example of how the United States is protecting human rights. // "A rec...

REPORT: Martin Luther King would have been on Glenn Beck’s chalkboard

By Ben Dimiero Fox News' Glenn Beck has spent the past several months relentlessly promoting his upcoming "Restoring Honor" rally, scheduled to take place this Saturday. Beck claims he originally wanted to schedule the rally for September 12, but decided to change the date because he didn't want to ask people to "work on the Sabbath." Instead, Beck and his event planners scheduled the rally for August 28, which coincides with the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I h...