The federal legislation that would help undocumented students gain a pathway to citizenship received more bipartisan support this past week when Republican Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah — one of the original architects of the DREAM Act — spoke up Read More …

The movement for gay marriage scored two decisive victories this week when federal district judges ruled against the constitutional validity of the federal government limiting marriage to a man and a woman. Gill v. OPM strikes down section 3 of Read More …

A new study conducted by the Migration Policy Institute has revealed that slightly more than 2.1 million unauthorized immigrant youth and young adults could be eligible to apply for legal status under the federal DREAM Act. But authors Jeanne Batalova Read More …

Yesterday, Johannes Mehserle — the former BART police officer who killed an unarmed, handcuffed African-American man in Oakland last year — was given a verdict that stopped just short of an acquittal. As Nadra Kareem has previously blogged here on Race in America, Read More …

The Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) is going high-tech! The agency released an iPhone application last week that aims to alert travelers on wait times. “My TSA” contains an official TSA airport status report, a quick search of items that Read More …