Photo credit: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute June is National Cancer Survivor Month, and one of the most survivable cancers — if caught early enough — is colon cancer. However, communities of color, including Latinos, aren’t getting screened for colon cancer as often or as early as we should.…

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,…

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 tía or tío, 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…