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…
Left to Right: Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón and Patricia Ordaz. Photo credit: Latinas Lawyers Bar Association / Congressional Hispanic Staff Association This was Karine Jean-Pierre’s first week as White House press secretary. She’s the first Black person,first openly LGBTQIA+ person, and first immigrant to hold the position. In 2020,…
Left: Dr. Jane Delgado Right: Dr. Serena Auñón-Chancellor. Photo credit: Kreges Foundation and NASA Johnson / Flickr With women’s reproductive rights in question, and as we come out of a global pandemic, medical and health-related issues have been making major headlines. Though chances of us finding a Latino…
Photo credit: Stephen Braunewell / Medium For many Latino entrepreneurs, finding investors does not come easy. Carl Palme, a Mexican immigrant running his own tech startup in Boston, has had his share of hardships with finding investors that will put their money toward his company simply because of…
Photo credit: MultCo Communications/ Flickr Is free speech in the classrooms of communities of color under attack? Recent school book bans have silenced the voices of Black and Latino authors. Now, Florida politicians have passed the Parental Rights in Education bill — also known as the “Don’t Say…
Thousands of teachers in Puerto Rico have taken to the streets to protest unfair pension cuts and demand a livable wage. Photo credit: FMPR / Twitter Juan Ruiz Goyco, a teacher from Arecibo, Puerto Rico, works hard. In addition to being a full-time teacher, he tutors in the…
Photo credit: Sec. Gina Raimondo / Twitter Last week, Robert Santos made history, as he was sworn in as the 26th director of the U.S. Census Bureau, and the first Latino ever to hold the position. During the 2020 Census, the Bureau changed canvassing strategies to reach historically…
Photo credit: Joe Biden / Flickr The U.S. is seeing its highest number of jobs created in years. So, why is no one talking about it? Under President Joe Biden, 5.9 million jobs have been created – which is already three times more than the jobs created under…
