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…
More than one in five young Latinos identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ), according to a recent study. Today, LGBTQ people have more legal protections, which didn’t always exist. In the 1960s anti-gay laws were so horrible, businesses could get shut down for serving gay…
“They murdered Alexa, not a man in a skirt”…That was the message emblazoned on Bad Bunny’s shirt while the Puerto Rican artist performed on “The Tonight Show,” Starring Jimmy Fallon, in February. Wearing a skirt, Bad Bunny was bringing attention to a grave injustice on his home island……
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 car accident and learned to fend for one another. In the 2020 version… …it’s a Latino family, and the parents…
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. …
Since 2018, Kevin Euceda has been living as a prisoner after expressing his feelings to a therapist. At 17, Kevin risked his life to come into the U.S. from Honduras, seeking asylum from a gang who wanted him to commit murder. After crossing the border, he was taken…
