Stories by Julianne Hing

Julianne Hing is a reporter and blogger for ColorLines.com covering immigration, education, criminal justice, and occasionally fashion and pop culture.

‘Fruitvale Station’ Is More Than a Movie, It’s Become a Landmark

Posted on: Jul 11, 2013, Source: Colorlines.com

The film about Oscar Grant's unjust killing by police premieres on Friday.

School Police and Principals Forced to Undergo Trainings in Implicit Racism

Posted on: Feb 25, 2013, Source: ColorLines.com

As Denver bucks the national trend of criminalizing student misbehavior, its school district is also taking a stance against prejudice punishments.

Florida’s School-to-Prison Pipeline is Largest in the Nation

Posted on: Feb 13, 2013, Source: Colorlines.com

More than in any other state, students in Florida are being arrested for incidents that once would have merited a trip to the principal's office.

The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline

Posted on: Nov 27, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com

Wearing the wrong color socks, talking back and being late landed young Cedrico Green in jail. The Justice Department says there are many more students like him.

Are For-Profit Colleges the Answer for Black Students?

Posted on: Sep 13, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com

Black students are flocking to for-profit colleges at record rates -- but at what cost?

U.S. Soldier Found Not Guilty of Negligent Homicide, Racist Hazing of Private Danny Chen

Posted on: Jul 31, 2012, Source: ColorLines

5 Ways to Fight Back Against Arizona's Racist Ethnic Studies Law

Posted on: Jul 15, 2012, Source: ColorLines

Arizona’s ban on ethnic studies hasn’t stopped organizers and educators in Tucson from fighting back against the law. Here’s how they’re doing it.

The Remaking of Philadelphia Public Schools: Privatization or Bust

Posted on: May 14, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com

Plans to dismantle Philadelphia's public education system have met with sharp criticism from parents, educators and education watchers nationwide.

Using ALEC Playbook, Bobby Jindal Radically Reshapes Public Education

Posted on: Apr 24, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com

Bobby Jindal has transformed public education in Louisiana and education advocates have deep concerns about who's going to benefit.

Georgia’s Statewide Undocumented Students College Ban Fails

Posted on: Mar 31, 2012, Source: ColorLines

Will Georgia's Latino Voters Oust Anti-Immigrant Lawmakers?

Posted on: Mar 7, 2012, Source: ColorLines

Parent Trigger Laws Stir Controversy from Coast to Coast

Posted on: Feb 28, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com

Parent Trigger Laws allow parents to overhaul schools with a majority vote. But do these laws benefit the people? Or the corporate interests driving the privatization of public ed?

Justice Dept. Finally Cuffs Sheriff Joe Arpaio, But Not the Policy That Made Him

Posted on: Jan 9, 2012, Source: ColorLines

A three-year investigation found rampant racial profiling and widespread discriminatory policing in Arpaio's Arizona county.

New York, California Fight for Tuition Equity for Undocumented Students

Posted on: Dec 4, 2011, Source: ColorLines

In the wake of the bruising defeat of the DREAM Act a year go, undocumented immigrant youth are fighting on the state level for access to education.

DREAM Activists Volunteer for Detention to Prove ICE is a "Rogue Agency"

Posted on: Nov 21, 2011, Source: ColorLines

When the cameras aren’t rolling and the nation’s not looking on, does the Obama administration abide by its own deportation policies?

1% Find Creative Ways to Profit from Our Schools -- At What Cost to Our Kids?

Posted on: Oct 20, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Rupert Murdoch's sudden interest in America's school system does not bode well.

DREAM Activist Describes Fear After Alabama’s HB 56: ‘I’m Not The Only One’

Posted on: Oct 19, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Three weeks after Alabama began enforcing its ultra-strict anti-immigrant law, the country is beginning to see what happens when states create their own immigration policies.

Blocked! Court Grants Emergency Stay on Key Parts of Alabama Immigration Law

Posted on: Oct 15, 2011, Source: ColorLines

Prisoner Health Deteriorates as California Clamps Down on Hunger Strike

Posted on: Oct 13, 2011, Source: ColorLines

Arizona Steps Up Harsh Immigration Policy with Operation Desert Sky

Posted on: Oct 6, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Operation Desert Sky is an airborne version of Arizona's controversial crime sweeps.

What Explains the Post-Katrina Success of New Orleans’ Schools?

Posted on: Aug 29, 2011, Source: ColorLines

Obama’s Deportation Move Likely Lifts Threat to DREAM Act Youth

Posted on: Aug 22, 2011, Source: ColorLines

White House Agrees to Halt Some Deportations, Including DREAM Act Youth

Posted on: Aug 19, 2011, Source: ColorLines

31 Million U.S. Kids Live in Poverty Today As Racial Inequality Deepens

Posted on: Aug 18, 2011, Source: ColorLines

DHS Tells States: We Don’t Need Your Approval for Secure Communities

Posted on: Aug 9, 2011, Source: ColorLines

School Vouchers: How the GOP is Using Free Market Philosophy To Wipe Out Public Education

Posted on: Aug 8, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Legislators in at least 30 states introduced ridiculous "voucher" bills that allow (some) kids to take the money for their public education and put it into private schooling.

More Jail Time Than the Man Who Killed Her Son? The Criminalization of Black Mothers

Posted on: Jul 31, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Women of color are being aggressively prosecuted for supposed transgressions they'd committed while trying to raise their children.

Obama Tells Latino Voters He ‘Needs a Dance Partner’ on Immigration

Posted on: Jul 26, 2011, Source: ColorLines

Six Undocumented Students Arrested for Protesting Georgia’s HB 87

Posted on: Jun 29, 2011, Source: ColorLines

5 Ways Alabama's New Anti-Immigrant Law Is Even Worse than Arizona's SB 1070

Posted on: Jun 24, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Alabama's HB 56 combines the harshest provisions of anti-immigrant ordinances and state laws that have been passed in recent years.

Remembering Oscar Grant on the Day of Johannes Mehserle's Release

Posted on: Jun 15, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

The former BART police officer who killed Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day in 2009 has been released from jail, but for Grant's family, the wounds are still fresh.

America's Education Problems Way Deeper Than 'Good' or 'Bad' Teachers

Posted on: May 29, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Educational disparities may be getting worse, not better, yet the heated debate over school reform has paid little attention to the hard realities families and teachers face.

Not Everyone Loves Oprah

Posted on: May 25, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

On the final day of her talk show, a look at her complicated legacy.

50 Years After Freedom Rides, a Stunning Film Revives the Heroism

Posted on: May 16, 2011, Source: ColorLines

Corporate Martial Law: Public Schools Auctioned Off to Highest Bidder

Posted on: May 8, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com

Michigan's new emergency financial managers are being dispatched to poor communities of color, where they're being given total power to attack public institutions.

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