C.Nicole Mason, Executive Director of The Women of Color Policy Network at NYU Wagner, blogs on how the President's plan to address the Foreclosure crisis is a step in the right direction.

Immigration reform remains a pressing topic of concern for many communities in particular communities of color. Viewing the arrival of a new administration  as an opportunity to take stock and assess the work of the federal immigration bureacracy and policy in the past 6 years; the Migration Policy Institute  recently released a comphrehensive report  titled " DHS and Immigration: Taking Stock and Correcting Course", authored by Doris Meissner and Donald Kerwin . This report assess the performance of  the US Customs and Border Protection,  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE), and US  Citizenship and  Immigration Services and analyses the overall Department of Homeland Security's Immigration policy.In addition,it details  36 recommendations for policy and operational changes that can be achieved now without legislation.

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The Migration Policy Institute is one of the cosponsers for the Network's three part series on Immigration policy reform  in April 2009. Click here to learn more and rsvp.

The Black AIDS Institute released it's annual report on the State of AIDS in Black America today. The 2009 edition of State of AIDS in Black America report lays out both the promise and the peril of the unique moment in this epidemic. The report details trends in the epidemic for Black Americans, the struggle engaged in to end the AIDS epidemic and the opportunity the historic election of Barack Obama and a congressional majority offers in creating lasting change

To read the full report go to www.BlackAids.org