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NEW ORLEANS -– Voting rights advocates won an important legal victory earlier this month that will ensure Louisiana’s public assistance agency clients—the state’s poorest and most marginalized residents—will be offered an opportunity to register to vote. In a forceful decision,... Chicago Defender http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

LOS ANGELES—A new education report finds that California schools are under more stress than ever after years of budgets cuts.The first report by EdSource to analyze school stress factors, “Schools under Stress: Pressures Mount on California’s Largest School Districts” identifies... Vivian Po http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=115

Fake Twitter accounts, posting thousands of automated messages per day, have managed to dilute and “censure” information on an upcoming protest against Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, a web expert told Univision News.Web marketing expert Alfonso Tames, says that... Manuel Rueda http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

Online social network company Facebook's co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook timeline Saturday evening that he and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan have tied the knot."Mark Zuckerberg added a life event to May 19, 2012 on... China Daily http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

An amateur Korean climber went missing on Mount Everest over the weekend while descending from the summit and is presumed to have fallen into a chasm and died, according to his fellow climbers and the Korean Embassy in Nepal yesterday.Congestion... Korea Daily http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

On Saturday the board of the NAACP endorsed marriage equality in a near-unanimous vote by the 64-member body (only two members voted against the resolution). On Monday the civil rights organization's chairman and president held a press conference to clarify... Cynthia Gordy http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

Top educational policymakers of Korea and the United States agreed Monday to conduct a joint study of bullying at schools as part of bilateral cooperation programs on education.Under the agreement, Korea will study U.S. programs on school brutality and its... Korea Times http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A meeting featuring U.S. economic experts, business leaders, policy strategists and advocates has highlighted the urgency to enact legislation that they claim can put an end to this nation’s political stalemate on immigration and bring about economic... Luis Carlos López http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

Today is the last day to register to vote in the June 5th election in California. Even though voter registration deadlines come and go each year, for immigrant communities in California this one is critical because there’s probably more at... Reshma Shamasunder http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

Photo: Solomon Carter Fuller was the first African American psychiatrist and worked closely with Alois Alzheimer in uncovering the disease Alzheimer would first describe in 1906.MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--“He was saying that some fellow across the street was taking gas out of... Andrea Parrott http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

With an ethnic studies ban now in place in Arizona’s public and charter schools, many Native Americans in the state who live off-reservation are wondering where they can send their children to get a good education, one that gives them... Michelle Tirado http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

That seems to be the topic on everyone’s mind as millions of American students head toward graduation this month. And by everyone, I don’t mean my classmates, the ones who have scrimped, saved, borrowed and begged to pay for their... Kelly Goff http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

One of the five teens charged with the 2010 fatal attack of a New Jersey professor will serve no jail time.Steven Contreras, 20, was cleared May 7 of six of the 10 charges against him in the June 25 killing... India-West http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

The Dalai Lama, recipient of the 2012 Templeton Prize, announced May 14 at the awards ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, that he would give $1.5 million of his prize money to Save the Children, India to mitigate malnourishment... Sunita Sohrabji http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

Nearly two years after Wyoming became the first state to regulate high-volume hydraulic fracturing, the federal government is finally taking similar steps to supervise oil and gas drilling on public lands.Released earlier this month, the proposed rule is now open... Lisa Song http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday signed a new law that revises and expands some parts of the state's immigration law HB 56, considered to be the toughest in the nation. The new law, House Bill 658, requires the state Department... New America Media http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

This situation had already been predicted. People can complain as much as they want and long for the past, but demographic changes are irreversible. In reality, this is good news if it is accompanied by the actions needed for generational... Staff http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

Judge Jacqueline Nguyen was confirmed Monday by the full Senate to the Ninth Circuit, becoming the first female Asian judge on the federal appellate bench.The vote to confirm Nguyen, 46, was 91 for and 3 against, The Hill reports. Judge... Bolsavik.come http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

In November 2000, Wallace McDonald didn’t get a chance to cast his vote for president when he showed up at a Tampa, Fla., precinct.What he got was a visit from the ghost of the state’s Jim Crow past.Seems the 66-year-old... Tonyaa Weathersbee http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=103

HOSTED BY NEW AMERICA MEDIA AND THE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE AT NYU SCHOOL OF LAW When: Tuesday, May 22nd, 11:00 AM PST, 12 Noon MT, 1 PM CT, 2 PM EST To register for this teleconference call, please click... Zaineb Mohammed http://publisher.namx.org/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=19&id=1440