Latina writer Valeria Luiselli and neuroscientist Vanessa Ruta are among the 26 people who were named MacArthur Fellows this year. Established in 1981, the prestigious program presents a $625,000 grant to people who are making a notable positive impact on the community through their work. The award goes…
Imposter syndrome is the persistent inability to believe that’s one success is merited and based on one’s own efforts and skills. It may be hard to believe that Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latinx appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, battles with imposter syndrome but she doesn’t shy away…
As an 8th grade school teacher in Maryland, Elizabeth Acevedo was stunned when one of her students kept rejecting the books on her suggested reading list. When she asked her student, Katherine, about it, Katherine said none of the books reflected Latinxs. So Elizabeth, an Afro-Dominican, set off…
Yazmin Juarez lost her 21-month-old daughter, Mariee, on the day Mother’s Day is celebrated back in her home country of Guatemala. The toddler died after contracting a lung infection while held in immigrant detention. The distraught, but courageous mom sought justice for her daughter by testifying at a…
Ramon Torres is an exemplary U.S. citizen with a family, a home and reputation as an honest man. Yet, none of that mattered when he was racially profiled for his brown skin and Latin American name by local cops who arrested him on suspicion of drunk driving in…
When Daniel Anguli arrived in Houston from Mexico, he barely spoke English. But he used his gift for graffiti art to express himself, and since then he’s painted over 100 murals across the Texas city. His art, along with that of many other Latinx graffiti artists , has…
Joanna Bonilla and her siblings lost their father in 2017 to internal bleeding from liver disease that went untreated. They didn’t get to say goodbye to their immigrant father who passed away in a hospital alone while he was in U.S. custody. Joanna can’t get her dad back,…
By now you’ve probably heard of the handful of immigrant children who have perished while in U.S. custody recently. But now there is ample evidence that they are also suffering terrible treatment by others, including sexual abuse and rape. A report shows that thousands of immigrant children said…
In June we celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month to recognize that immigrants contribute in multiple ways to the thriving economy and overall abundance of this country. But many immigrants live in a climate of fear, especially if they or someone in their family are undocumented. For some immigrants who…
When we read about the health of Latinxs, the focus tends to lean in a more negative trajectory. We encounter statistics about Latinx communities dealing with higher rates of diabetes and heart disease than their non-Latinx counterparts. But a new study shows that despite being more economically disadvantaged,…
