The International Examiner

AT&T’s recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will significantly impact ethnic communities around the United States, especially low-income populations that could be confronted by reduced service access and higher costs.

New America Media Editor’s note: This letter, written by a Vietnamese immigrant working in Fukushima as a policeman to a friend in Vietnam, has been circulating on Facebook among the Vietnamese diaspora. It is an extraordinary testimony to the strength and dignity of the Japanese spirit, and an interesting slice of life near the epicenter of Japan’s current crisis, the Fukushima nuclear power plant. It was translated by NAM editor, Andrew Lam.

You’ll have to excuse me. I just broke up a fight between two gang members, without the help of security, so I’m writing this in an adrenaline rush. I want to keep that going because it is replacing the rage with which I usually write about the gauntlet that is public education. And I don’t [...]

Catherine Lopez, a marketing assistant for a financial firm in Midtown Manhattan, said talking about Social Security with her grandmother is like “a ticking bomb that’s going to detonate right before us.” Lopez riles up her grandmother often on Social Security. “I’ve told her that my generation is actually paying for the retirees — tens [...]

If every vote counts, why are political candidates doing so little to reach out to Washington’s significant minority communities?

Many ethnic media outlets in Washington state are asking this very question. While mainstream media is on the decline, ethnic media is growing to meet the needs of new Americans. Racial and ethnic minorities comprise more than 20 percent of the 6.7 million Washingtonians, and the majority of those consume news from ethnic media.

They call him Old Li. Too ashamed to return to China, he endlessly rides buses from New York to casinos. Never gambling, he lives on rebate coupons.

When Daisy Ding, 83, fell in her bathroom in New York City earlier this summer, she was not found until a neighbor checked and discovered her body four days later. After Jack Li, 55, died of a heart attack while playing basketball in 2009, his corpse lay unclaimed at a Manhattan mortuary for over a [...]

Social Security turned 75 on Aug. 14, and to read major media reports it should be excoriated for robbing our children of their future security rather than celebrated for what it has achieved in keeping millions of Americans above the poverty line. The program’s recent annual report, shows a very healthy program needing important, but [...]

My friend and I watched looters gleefully make mad dashes into the corner grocery store. Their arms bulged with liquor bottles and cigarette cartons. Suddenly, my friend shouted out as if he was speaking to an audience: “Maybe now they’ll see how rotten they treat us.” The “they” was the white man. My friend’s words [...]