Photo credit: Jep Gambardella / Pexels September is California wine month🍷 and these Latino-owned wineries are wine in a million! Did you know that indigenous Mexicans were likely the first winemakers in California?🏆 California wine can be traced back to the 1800s when it was being produced at…

Photo credit: Adriana De Jesús Salamán / Twitter In recent years, a growing number of wealthy outsiders have moved to Puerto Rico to take advantage of significantly lower tax rates. This wave of gentrification has caused a dramatic increase in the cost of living on an island where…

Photo credit: Néstor David Pastor / Center for Puerto Rican Studies Literacy Tests 1920s — Arizona law required voters to pass an English liter­acy test in order to register to vote. The authors of the 1909 law stated their inten­tion plainly: to block the “ignor­ant Mexican vote.” In…

Photo credit: Hot Bread Kitchen Immigrant workers make up around 17% of the U.S. workforce according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. For immigrant workers, the road to entrepreneurship and career advancement is full of many obstacles compared to nonimmigrants. Language barriers, lack of funding to start…

Photo courtesy of LUCHA AZ The 2022 midterms are coming up. At stake are the balance of power in Congress, in addition to how states are governed and what laws get passed, both nationally and locally. Key decisions that will affect Latinos now and for future generations —…

Top row, left to right: Jennicet Gutiérrez, William Brandon Lacy Campos, Horacio Roque Ramírez, Gloria Evangelina AnzaldúaBottom row, left to right: Holly Woodlawn, Pedro Zamora, José Julio Sarria, Sylvia Rivera While queer Latinxs have been at the forefront of fighting for equality, they often go unrecognized in history.…

Photo by France François Darleny Suriel is a Dominican woman who identifies as Afro Latina. She knows all too well what it’s like to experience colorism, even within her household. “Colorism has always felt to me like an elephant in the room that would not be directly addressed…

Photo credit: Pax Ahimsa Gethen / Wikimedia Commons On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced a new program that would transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. The program…

Left to Right: Reyna Montoya, Cristina Jiménez Moreta. Photo credit: Echoing Green Fellowship / John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Growing up, Reyna Montoya was all too familiar with the fear, anxiety and stress that comes with being undocumented in the U.S. but she never imagined she’d…

19 children and 2 teachers died from a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Their names and tributes are below. It’s happened again. 212 mass shootings in 144 days. Why are we okay with this? Ten years ago, innocent children were killed at Sandy Hook…