Before there was the Wild West, there were vaqueros – the cowboys of Mexico – who taught Hawaiians how to ride, and rope horses and cattle. Few people know the history of the first Hawaiian vaqueros or that Hawaii still has a thriving cowboy culture to this day.…
Photo credit: Adriana De JesĂşs Salamán / Twitter In recent years, a growing number of wealthy outsiders have moved to Puerto Rico to take advantage of significantly lower tax rates. This wave of gentrification has caused a dramatic increase in the cost of living on an island where…
Photo credit: NĂ©stor David Pastor / Center for Puerto Rican Studies Literacy Tests 1920s — Arizona law required voters to pass an English literÂacy test in order to register to vote. The authors of the 1909 law stated their intenÂtion plainly: to block the “ignorÂant Mexican vote.” In…
Photo credit: Hot Bread Kitchen Immigrant workers make up around 17% of the U.S. workforce according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. For immigrant workers, the road to entrepreneurship and career advancement is full of many obstacles compared to nonimmigrants. Language barriers, lack of funding to start…
Photo courtesy of LUCHA AZ The 2022 midterms are coming up. At stake are the balance of power in Congress, in addition to how states are governed and what laws get passed, both nationally and locally. Key decisions that will affect Latinos now and for future generations —…
Top row, left to right: Jennicet GutiĂ©rrez, William Brandon Lacy Campos, Horacio Roque RamĂrez, Gloria Evangelina AnzaldĂşaBottom row, left to right: Holly Woodlawn, Pedro Zamora, JosĂ© Julio Sarria, Sylvia Rivera While queer Latinxs have been at the forefront of fighting for equality, they often go unrecognized in history.…
Photo by France François Darleny Suriel is a Dominican woman who identifies as Afro Latina. She knows all too well what it’s like to experience colorism, even within her household. “Colorism has always felt to me like an elephant in the room that would not be directly addressed…
Top row, left to right: Bert Corona, Joan Baez, Gilberto Gerena ValentĂnBottom row, left to right: Reies Tijerina (as seen with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), Johanna Fernández, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales More than half a century after the social justice movements of the 1960s, the fight…
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…
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.…
