June 11, 2009 ColorLines Direct. News and commentary from ColorLines magazine and RaceWire blo

Who Killed the Why? Buy Andrea Batista Schlesinger’s Book to Find Out Andrea Batista Schlesinger, a featured speaker at Facing Race 2008 and an ARC boardmember, has written her first book, The Death of Why: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy.

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Newspaper Jobs Aren’t Dead
Former mainstream journalists find work and more in the ethnic press.

Tent City Stories
People of color reflect on the role racism played in leaving them without jobs and homes.

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Did they act alone? The media and the “extremists”
The double standard is glaring. Suspected right-wing terrorists are painted as isolated loonies, but even absurdly incompetent, tangentially “Muslim” wannabe terrorists so-called are presented as purveyors of global “jihad.”

Schwarzenegger Doesn’t Feel Awful Enough
Despite his symbolic gestures towards HIV/AIDS issues, the governator plans to slash $67.8 million from state HIV programs and an additional $12.3 million from the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, not to mention the money he’s slicing away from education and social services.

Rinku Sen at Jack & Jill Politics: Will the Recovery Help People of Color?
Rinku Sen has her first post up at Jack and Jill Politics, and it’s kicked off quite a discussion around the Recovery Act’s addressing (or lack of addressing) of longstanding racial economic disparities.

Four Women Journalists, One Goal
This week, Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea for illegally crossing into the Communist country while working on a documentary about refugees for Current TV. (Although as of this posting, there is little to no coverage on the citizen journalist site and network.)

“Race and Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the Rules” ARC recently released “Race and Recession,” a report that tells the stories of people of color who have, across the board, been disproportionately affected by the recession. Visit arc.org/recession to download the report.

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ColorLines Direct is the weekly news update of the Applied Research Center (ARC) sent to subscribers, supporters and participants in ARC’s activities. ARC publishes ColorLines Magazine, Racewire.org and most recently hosted The Compact for Racial Justice Phone Forums.

“;Colorblind” Word Twists Good Intentions
The first installment of new video series on the
language that controls the discourse around race.

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