Here's a tip. If your non-profit radio network is facing a financial crisis, it's best not to kill your most successful program.

But that's exactly what management at Pacifica Radio did today, axing both hosts of the popular KPFA Morning Show, Aimee Allison and Brian Edwards Tiekert, and...

I've always tried to avoid writing about the internal politics of KPFA Radio. There are so many big issues that I'd rather spend my time covering - the wars, the economy, the November elections to name a few. But right now, KPFA is at a critical moment and...

Every time I write a story I learn something new. What I learned writing this story on the East Bay Stand Down for homeless veterans: According to the VA, 56 percent of homeless vets are African American, even though nearly 80 percent of U.S. military veterans are white.

Last week, I noted that a recent US Army report on suicide includes an interesting fact: Since 2004, the number of soldiers going AWOL, deserting, and "missing movement" -- that is failing to deploy when they're supposed to -- has gone up a shocking 234 percent.

Tucked into this massive Army report on suicide is an interesting fact: Since 2004, the number of soldiers going AWOL, deserting, and "missing movement" -- that is failing to deploy when they're supposed to -- has gone up a shocking 234 percent.

The Army includes this fact on...

It's always good to know that your work in making a difference -- even in one person's life. So I wanted to let you know that my most recent story may help an Oakland homeowner keep her house out of foreclosure.

Today, I published a piece, "New Face of Foreclosure...

In his State of the Union address to Congress, President Obama promised to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which forbids gays and lesbians from serving openly in the Armed Forces. Three months later, efforts to repeal the policy continue to languish in Congress. But when Lt. Dan Choi,...

It's been seven years since Fernando Suarez del Solar buried his son, Jesus. Seven years since March 27, 2003, when just one week into the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Lance Corporal Jesus Suarez del Solar stepped on a piece of unexploded ordnance and came home in a flag-draped coffin. When...

California taxpayers are leaving more than $1.2 billion in tax refunds on the table, money that could be used to give working class residents a financial lifeline and give a needed economic stimulus to the state's economy, according to a new report released by the New America Foundation.

It's been a year since President Barack Obama signed the $787 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package. The largest public investment in America's infrastructure since the Great Depression, Obama called it "the most sweeping economic recovery bill in our history."

But a year later, many...

Lawyers for a U.S. Army specialist imprisoned after mailing an incendiary rap song to the Pentagon have filed a habeas corpus petition in federal court demanding the soldier's trial take place in the United States rather than in Iraq, as the military desires....

A U.S. Army Specialist, jailed after distributing rap against the Defense Department's "stop loss" policy of involuntarily keeping service members past their enlistment commitment, will be flown to the Middle East to be court-martialed, the Pentagon announced this week.

The soldier charged, 27-year-old Spc. Marc Hall, has already been...

This article originally appeared on the website of New America Media.

If Republicans want to build on Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts' Senate race in historically blue California this fall, they'll have to overcome the state GOP's inability to win over ethnic voters, or hope those voters stay...

This article originally appeared on the website of New America Media.

Since President Barack Obama signed his stimulus package into law in February, the U.S. Department of Transportation has handed out more than $150 million in contracts to companies for street, highway and bridge construction.

New statistics released...

Loans handed out to struggling small businesses as part of President Barack Obama's stimulus package have largely shut out minority businesses -- especially those owned by Blacks and Latinos -- according to data provided by the federal government's Small Business Administration (SBA) to New America Media (NAM).