New Immigration Q&A Column with Attorney and Activist Patricia Ice

November 2006: IMDiversity is pleased to announce the launch of "Ice on Immigration," a new advice column on IMDiversity.com providing information and tips on topics related to U.S. immigration and immigrant workers' rights.

L. Patricia Ice is an attorney and counselor who has taught immigration law at Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson, and also contributes regular immigration advice stories to La Noticia and The Jackson Advocate.

A practicing attorney, Ms. Ice has recently taken on a two-year role as an Equal Justice Works Katrina Legal Fellow, focusing on immigrant employment issues as fair labor standards, and wage and hour problems, in areas around the Gulf Coast.

She is also dedicated to immigrant rights advocacy, and serves on the Board of the non-profit rights education group, MIRA: The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance at http://www.yourmira.org/.

Although the reader-suggested topics for the column are specific to no particular group of readers, the column will be housed on IMDiversity's Hispanic American Village site, as a featured stand-alone section in the Immigration readings department.

-- The IMDiversity.com Editorial Team

Development of Village Blog Channels Underway

November 2006: The staff of IMDiversity is at work on a series of new blogs that will serve as companion channels to our Multicultural Villages sites and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online.
The blogs will be used to post different items about and from IMDiversity, our affiliates, and other sources of information we deem of to be of relevance and interest to our diverse audiences.

Contributions will be added by diverse editorial teams, and we invite visitors to both post comments and subscribe to syndicated feeds (RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3) on these channels in order to conveniently "keep in touch" with IMDiversity.

Among the sorts of postings you can expect to see are enhanced commentaries and "editors' notebook" entries following evolving stories on the Villages and in our fellow ethnic media outlets; time-sensitive Editors' Choice notices about career, employment, or educational opportunities that come our way (great jobs whose deadlines are close, local career events not posted on the Villages, special scholarship or internship announcements); announcements of new and noteworthy features added to our network of sites and online job tools; guest postings by regular friends of the Village; and more.

The new additions will be accessible at:
http://africanamericanvillage.blogspot.com
http://asianamericanvillage.blogspot.com
http://hispanicamericanvillage.blogspot.com
http://nativeamericanvillage.blogspot.com
http://womensvillage.blogspot.com
http://blackcollegian.blogspot.com

-- Staff of IMDiversity Inc.