Only 5% of Hollywood performers featured on screen in the last 12 years were Latino. Photo: Thomas Wolf, Wikimedia Commons Hollywood has a diversity problem, and some new collaborations hope to address it. The mayor of Los Angeles and some of Hollywood’s elite Latina actresses are partnering up…
On Jan. 26, basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven other passengers died in a 10 a.m. helicopter crash in Calabasas, California on their way to a youth basketball game. In Los Angeles, where Bryant played all 20 seasons of his career with the LA…
A Honduran mother and her ailing children who had been hospitalized in the United States after seeking asylum were deported to Guatemala on Jan. 21 by immigration officials. The family are some of the latest asylees removed as a result of the Trump Administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols. The…
A recent study has found that Latinos earned more college degrees in the last ten years than in any previous decade. Latino enrollment numbers in college programs have also continued to increase during this time period, although the general population of Latinos continues behind other groups in this…
The “Remain in Mexico” policy has forced thousands of migrants to wait in border town camps as their asylum cases are decided, while teams of modern day “freedom riders” from across the country mobilize to bring them books to read, food to nourish their spirit, and a serving…
California has banned for-profit and immigrant detention centers. Effective Jan. 1, California’s new state ban aims to stem the growth of America’s bloated prison system by ending housing of inmates in privately-owned prisons and detention centers. And by 2028, California will not allow housing of any inmates in…
Puerto Rico was shaken by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake just before 9 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11, as islanders continue to endure the effects of Mother Nature’s devastation. The latest earthquake comes days after the one registering 6.4 magnitude on Jan. 7 left one person dead and caused…
Congress has opened an investigation into the medical mistreatment of 17 detainees at nine different migrant detainment centers. They requested that all documents related to the reported incidents be submitted by January, following the leak of an internal federal whistleblower’s memo. The cases of medical mistreatment detailed in…
Illinois is heading into a new decade following the progressive trend mapped out by California, Colorado and eight other states in legalizing marijuana, but immigration advocates are warning the state’s estimated 487,000 non-citizens to avoid the substance at all costs. Since marijuana is currently classified as a federally-controlled…
A Sarasota political candidate accused of telling young Hispanic boys to “cut grass” has decided to continue his political campaign into 2020 despite facing public backlash. Within a one week span of the viral media scrutiny over the Sarasota incident, video footage of another racist incident in Texas…