EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. – The district candidate Julie Garreau wants to represent in the South Dakota State Senate stretches from the hilly banks of the Missouri River mid-state across rolling prairies, buttes, and pocket “badlands” to South Dakota’s western bo...
WASHINGTON – Many Alaskan state officials have been quick to point to the works of the late Sen. Ted Stevens in the wake of his unexpected passing, but the longtime politician also carried a substantial legacy among indigenous individuals.
Stevens, the...
DENVER – What are the odds? Two American Indian state legislators – one incumbent, one aspiring – in a state with a relatively small Native population, and both of them, although unrelated and from different tribes, with the last name “Williams.”
To be...
tudents of color, low-income students and immigrant students make up 70% of Californiaâs schools and will form the majority of high school dropouts. Jolene Rodriguez, a junior at a Long Beach high school, speaks up for students of color and worries abou...
This week on New America Now: Author Isabel Allende discusses her latest novel, Island Beneath the Sea. Her first novel in four years is an addictive stew of race, sex, magic, and realism set in eighteenth century Haiti.