When author Julissa Arce started her career at Goldman Sachs, she was undocumented and surrounded by people with privileged upbringings. She felt like she didn’t belong. “A lot of times it’s in your head. My colleagues didn’t really expressively make me feel like I was less than them.” …
From “Hispanic” to “Latino,” and recently “Latinx,” the conversation around identity and labels is fierce, and a new term seems to become popular every few years. The origins of these labels stem from this map… Look familiar? The green was Mexico, before the U.S. acquired what today is…
March 31 is International Transgender Visibility Day. This story is about a transgender Latina who demanded rights for all LGBTQ people at a time it wasn’t popular to do so. More than one in five young Latinos identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ), according to…
Sadly, transphobia exists everywhere. But the recent death of a transgender woman in Puerto Rico is showing us the heartbreaking reality: transgender rights have a long way to go. “They murdered Alexa, not a man in a skirt”…That was the message emblazoned on Bad Bunny’s shirt while the…
Television is showing the horrific consequences of our broken immigration system, and making these stories more visible than ever before. When rebooting the 90s TV drama “Party of Five,” showrunners considered the current political climate. In the original series, five young White siblings lost both parents to a…
In early 2020, the U.S. postage service honored the late journalist, Gwen Ifill, who died in 2016, by making her a Black Heritage Forever stamp. While some may know Gwen as the journalist loved by the Obamas, many don’t know that her mom is Panamanian. The journalist worked…
It took us until now to finally confirm the El Paso Shooting as a hate crime. In August, 2019, a gunman entered an El Paso Wal-Mart and opened fire, killing 22 and injuring 23. The shooting has been called the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history. …
A teen seeking asylum in the United States from dangerous gangs was subjected to even more trauma when the confidential words he shared with a counselor were used against him. Since 2018, Kevin Euceda has been living as a prisoner after expressing his feelings to a therapist. At…
