Literacy Tests 1920s — Arizona law required voters to pass an English liter­acy test in order to register to vote. The authors of the 1909 law stated their inten­tion plainly: to block the “ignor­ant Mexican vote.” In the 1920s, pioneers across the country like Antonia Denis, a Puerto…

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 a business, adapting to U.S.…

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 — including reproductive justice, gun safety,…

While queer Latinxs have been at the forefront of fighting for equality, they often go unrecognized in history. From José Julio Sarria, who became the first openly gay person to run for office in the U.S., to Jennicet Gutiérrez, a transgender immigrant who’s calling out injustices suffered by…

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 or acknowledged, but its…

More than half a century after the social justice movements of the 1960s, the fight for civil rights and social justice continues to this day. Still, the grassroots movements of that era brought about sweeping changes across the U.S., and Latinos contributed on the front-line at marches, teach-ins,…

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 was called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals…

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. Thankfully, some organizations are working to…

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 one day make history in the fight to stop her community members from being deported. Montoya is the founder and executive…

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 Elementary. We thought that would be the incident to finally result in change. Yet here we are again. In that decade, there has…