New America Media
New America Media is the country's first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 3,000 ethnic news organizations. Over 57 million ethnic adults connect to each other, to home countries and to America through 3000+ ethnic media outlets, the fastest growing sector of American journalism.
Founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996, NAM is headquartered in California with offices in New York and Washington D.C., and partnerships with journalism schools to grow local associations of ethnic media. Posts by New America Media:
Q&A: Obama’s Climate Plan Could Ease Path to Clean Energy On Tribal Lands
New America Media, Question & Answer, Ngoc Nguyen
Above: The Navajo Generating System / photo: Joshua Jovanelly, Gila River Indian News
Editor’s note: President Obama unveiled a national plan to tackle climate change earlier this week, using his executive powers to bypass Congress, which had been gridlocked on measures to address the problem...
Immigration Bill May Not Be Everything You Think It Is, Activists Warn
New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX — Maricela De Jesus has renewed hope that passage of an immigration bill in the Senate will finally allow her and her husband to step out of the shadows, after 13 years of living in the United States without legal documents...
Sealing Youth Offender Records Brings ‘Chance at a New Life’
New America Media, Commentary, David Cunningham
Ed. Note: In June, youth advocates testified before a hearing of the Senate Public Safety Committee in Sacramento in support of AB 1006, which would require court and probation officers to inform youth offenders of how to seal their records upun turning 18...
For Latinas, a Guide to Success at Work
New America Media, Question & Answer, Valeria Fernández
Editor’s Note: Rose Castillo Guilbault, celebrated author of the memoir, “Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America,” has just released a new work with co-author Louis E.V...
Barred from Federal Programs, DREAMers May Qualify for Medi-Cal
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Jun 17, 2013
This article is also available in Spanish. ..
Judge: Discrimination at Arpaio’s Office Came From the ‘Top Down’
New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX — A federal judge ruled on Friday that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio engaged in racial profiling of Latinos, violating their constitutional rights in his crackdown on illegal immigration...
From the Jury Box — Thoughts on the Stop-and-Frisk Trial
New America Media, Commentary, Damaso Reyes
Pictured above: Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit officers from the 28th Precinct conduct a Stop and Frisk in Harlem in 2006...
Immigration Reform: Who’s In and Who’s Out
New America Media, Commentary, Juan Rocha
In December of 2001, an unknown law professor named Barack Obama lectured on the Civil War Amendments (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth) to his law school students at the University of Chicago. ..
California’s Lifeline to the Future
The Center for Media Justice, The Utility Reform Network and New America Media invite you for a statewide ethnic media webinar and telebriefing...
Emergency Contraception Ruling a Win for Immigrant Women
New America Media, Commentary, Jessica González-Rojas
Women’s health advocates received welcome news earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must make the most popular forms of emergency contraception (also known as the morning-after pill) available for all women over-the-counter...
Gov. Brown, Healthcare Advocates At Odds Over Medi-Cal Expansion
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram
SACRAMENTO – Health care advocates warn that time is running out on drawing down federal dollars to expand Medi-Cal, a move that would prevent nearly 1.4 million low-income Californians from remaining uninsured when health care reform is fully implemented Jan...
Governor Does About-Face on Obama’s Health Care Law
New America Media/Miami Times, News Report, D. Kevin McNeir
Republican governors like Florida’s Rick Scott are slowly realizing that opposing President Barack Obama’s health care law — the Affordable Care Act — may be both political suicide and bad for hundreds of thousands of citizens who lack health care...
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