This Saturday at Lincoln Square Recreational Center in Oakland young basketball teams will be competing in a basketball tournament to highlight awareness of teen dating violence.

Budd Mackenzie, founder of Trust in Education, talks about why girls education is key in Afghanistan and the challenges in keeping girls in school.

Owners of shopping centers, car lots, banks, money wiring services, and even the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix are witnessing the rise of "self-deportation," the decision by immigrants in Arizona to leave the United States.

Thanks to a class-action court settlement, a quarter-million elders and people with disabilities can now reapply for wrongly stopped or denied Social Security or SSI benefits. Those cut off because of often old or mistaken arrest warrants can reclaim their share of $500 million in lost benefits nationally.

There is nothing fair about the new UC policy of freshman admission if it produces a less racially diverse group of students and their academic achievement is lower than those admitted under the current policy.

News that Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, two of the Americans being held in Iran, are unwell has prompted new statements from their families and the White House.

The global economic crisis will result in 53 million more people remaining in extreme poverty by 2015 than otherwise would have.

Oh, come on. Like Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer wasn’t gonna sign SB 1070. Of course she was going to sign it. Her re-election depended on it.

Chinese media are criticizing the lack of visibility of elected Chinese officials in the Bay Area in response to a rash of recent attacks on Asians, while community leaders react angrily to the violence.

Two views on whether India should sign on to a climate change treaty to bind itself to cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

Arizonans from diverse communities, including black, Latino, Native American, Asian and gay activists, joined together Sunday to protest a new state law that makes it a crime to be undocumented. Leaders called the law a threat to the civil rights of all communities, and are planning to fight it using some of the strategies they learned from the civil rights movement.

The immigration reform bill being pushed by Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham would establish a national ID card for all American workers, a provision proposed by many on both the right and left.

Arizonans from diverse communities, including black, Latino, Native American, Asian and gay activists, joined together Sunday to protest a new state law that makes it a crime to be undocumented.

The immigration reform blueprint being pushed by Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham would establish a national ID card for all American workers, a provision disliked by many on both the right and left.

Arizona officials claim they had to enact their controversial new law because the federal government has stalled on comprehensive immigration reform. This dumps the immigration reform issue squarely back in Obama’s lap. And it couldn’t come at a worse time for Obama.

Immigrant elders living in SRO hotels and subsidized apartments in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco managed to be counted in the decennial census, despite substantial obstacles.

Arizona officials claim they had to enact their controversial new law because the federal government has stalled on comprehensive immigration reform. This dumps the immigration reform issue squarely back in Obama’s lap. And it couldn’t come at a worse time for Obama.