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,…
Emmett Till (top left; photo credit: Mamie Till Bradley) was a 14-year-old boy who was lynched by a mob of white men in 1955. President Joe Biden (top right; photo credit: The White House) signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law this spring, making lynching a federal…
May is National Inventors Month, and we’re celebrating Latino and Latin American inventors who have changed the world. In the top left, Roberto Landell de Moura of Brazil demonstrates his creation, the wireless phone. In the bottom left, Beautyblender founder Rea Ana Silva reinvented makeup application with her…
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Latino students in one state are falling behind, and some say it’s a lack of Latino teachers on campus that’s causing our children to suffer in the classroom. Arizona is one of the most Latino states in the country. More than 2.1 million Latinos…
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…
Top row, left to right: California Gov. and Rep. Romualdo Pacheco, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat, New Mexico Senator Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo. Bottom row, left to right: New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, Secretary of…
Photo credit: Joe Piette / Flickr Many of us probably have a tÃa or tÃo, brother or sister, mom or dad who work, or have worked, for the U.S. Postal Service. In fact, about 1 in every 10 Postal Service workers is Latino. Now their jobs are being…
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…
Top row, left to right: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York and Rep. Norma Torres of California. Bottom row, left to right: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, and Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona Latino…
