With 32 million eligible people, the 2020 election marks the first time Latinos are the largest racial minority group to vote. Our voting block has been referred to as a “sleeping giant”, but we’re not sleeping, we just haven’t been catered to politically. Latinos have always been seen…
Across the country, our communities are being displaced because of high rent hikes and job insecurity. As this displacement continues, our culture is also being wiped away. “Mural de La Raza,” was created in 1985 in San José, California by a group of artists as a way to…
Inspired by civil rights movements and leaders of the time, The Young Lords fought for the rights of all Latinos and “Third World People.” Because Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony, and neither a state or its own country, the island’s people have always been a target for…
Mulowayi Iyaye and Mapenzi Chibale are Puerto Rican sisters who have made their mark internationally as “Las Nietas de Nonó” by… transforming their grandfather’s house in Barrio San Antón into a community center and farm! Here, they share knowledge with young people about how to live off the…
When this activist group began fighting injustice, a lot of internal gender dynamics went ignored… then the group’s women demanded a voice. In the 1960s and 1970s, a group of Puerto Rican activists who called themselves The Young Lords (TYL) fought against the mistreatment of their people. The…
Our story starts with José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, a Puerto Rican member of the Lincoln Park, Chicago gang in the 1960s. He was in jail when a prison librarian introduced him to the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Once out, José committed himself to social…
“Por el amor de Diós, ayudenme,” (for the love of God, help me) pleaded the mother of Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year old Latina soldier who went missing on April 22, urging an investigation of her daughter’s disappearance. To find Vanessa, her family started a campaign, which has garnered…
On Thursday, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to immediately end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), to the relief of hundreds of thousands waiting in limbo. This 5-4 ruling comes as a huge win for the immigrants protected by DACA, known as “Dreamers,”…
Tens of thousands of people in every state in the U.S. have taken to the street to demand change and protest the killing of George Floyd and systemic racism that affects Black and Brown communities. Since uprisings started on May 25, more than 10,000 peaceful protesters have been…
In a matter of days, our moral obligation of fighting the systemic racism that affects our communities surpassed staying home to fight coronavirus for hundreds of thousands, in mostly peaceful protests. And last week, in the midst of mass protests and the COVID-19 pandemic, eight states voted, officially…
