Jessica Valoris

Asylum Roulette

The RaceWire Beat - 10.09.06

Asylum Roulette
Immigrants and immigration courts face harsher consequences under the stress of increased caseloads and changing legislation.

New Orleans Population Is Reduced Nearly 60%
New figures suggest a huge shift in New Orleans’ racial make-up.

Racist Screed Is Flying Off The Shelves
Pat Buchanan’s latest book is a white nationalist rant — but that hasn’t stopped it from climbing the best-seller charts.

Video Game War
Video-gamers go head to head on the “War on Terror.”

The Grand Old Tradition of Disenfranchisement
The most current Voter ID legislation is indicative of a larger historical process of disenfrancisment in the United States

The RaceWire Beat is a digest of the day’s top news stories on race and politics collected by the staff at ColorLines magazine.

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