A “Stop the Stops” rally was held recently in an effort to address racial profiling concerns at LAPD by local communities of color. Photo courtesy of Push LA “Reimagine Protect and Serve.” A new California law that requires officers in the state to record the race and gender…
U.S. Marines, Sailors and coalition partners with Regional Command Southwest salue a U.S. flag raised during a 9/11 memorial ceremony in 2014 in Afghanistan. Photo: defenseimagery.mil/Wikimedia Commons. Jose Segovia Benitez spent six years serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, including one deployment to Iraq, and earned multiple awards…
A close-up of a sign held at a rally opposing the operation of the Homestead Detention Center in Florida, which will soon be shutting down./Marc Nozell/Wikimedia Commons. Thousands of families separated. Several migrants neglected, harmed or killed while in U.S. custody. Immigrant advocates and lawyers working tirelessly to…
Stephanie Saint Sanchez, third from left, is founder of Señorita Cinema film festival, which takes place place Nov. 1-3./ Courtesy of Señorita Cinema The self proclaimed “world’s only all-Latina film festival” Señorita Cinema, takes place in Houston this weekend from Nov. 1-3. The biannual festival began in 2007…
Salvadoran-American poet and activist Javier Zamora speaks to University of Texas at Austin in April 2019. Javier promotes the poetry of undocumented immigrants and uses it to explore how immigration and the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War impacted his family. Photo: Jay Godwin/LBJ Library/Wikimedia Commons. An estimated 250,000 Salvadorans…
The El Paso community grieves at a memorial for the victims of the 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting. Photo: Ruperto Miller/Wikimedia Commons. Twenty-two people whose lives were cut short by a mass shooter at an El Paso Walmart shopping center on Aug. 3 are being memorialized at the…
A rally-goer in Cleveland Ohio, Public Square, protesting against Family Separation. Photo: CommonsWikipedia. Children continue to be separated from their families at the Mexico and U.S. border, and recent figures have the total number of these children at over 5,400. Since the Trump administration started this practice in…
Two men of color share a tender moment. Photo: Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of the #StopHIVStigma campaign. HIV infection rates have increased for Latinxs in recent years, causing sufficient alarm in the health community for the issue to be labeled an…
An undocumented worker who is suing the Hard Rock Cafe in New Orleans after sustaining injuries was detained by immigration authorities.View of the partially collapsed building. Photo: Wikimedia Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, a native Honduran who was injured at the collapse of a Round Rock Cafe in New…
A depressed woman, not the alleged victim, kneels in desperation against a brick wall. Photo: Creative Commons A Honduran woman alleges a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer raped her for seven years, sometimes as frequently as four times a week, and threatened to deport her if…
