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.…
Left to Right: Reyna Montoya, Cristina JimĂ©nez 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 PantaleĂłn 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…
