By Layidua Salazar Rewire.News Tax Day is here and with it comes the reminder of my status in the United States as an undocumented taxpayer—meaning someone who doesn’t have a legal pathway to citizenship, despite having temporary protection from…
By Johanna Mendelson Forman The Conversation Latin America’s economy has grown enormously over the past two decades. However, unemployment in the region still hovers at 8 percent, double that of the United States. Youth joblessness is even higher –…
By Marisa B. Perez-Diaz LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following is a statement released by Texas State Board Education member Marisa B. Perez-Diaz after the Texas State Board of Education voted to approve ethnic studies course for Mexican Americans) Friday,…
LatinaLista — Undocumented immigrants have always lived “in the shadows” of society. Yet, it depends on who is in the Oval Office as to how far their retreat into those shadows. As a result, there are many citizens who…
By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org “I am not speaking about the poor. I am not speaking for the poor. I am the poor.” Claudia De la Cruz was speaking at an April 10 press briefing in Washington, D.C. on behalf…
By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force After the founding fathers put together the Constitution, James Madison penned the additional Bill of Rights in 1791. Too bad protecting the environment wasn’t included. At the end of the 18th…
By Alex Shashkevich Futurity Word embeddings—an algorithmic technique that can map relationships and associations between words—can measure changes in gender and ethnic stereotypes over the past century in the United States. Researchers analyzed large databases of American books, newspapers,…
By Valerie Budayr Multicultural Children’s Book Day Not long ago, I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing publisher, Philip Lee. As one of the former founders of Lee & Low Books, Philip left the company in 2004 to create…
By Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira The Conversation In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the home front building Victory Ships not only added to the…
LatinaLista — Scientists have long seen evidence of how our environment affects our health. Now, a new study focused on Latinos discovers the link between how happy we are to how healthy are our hearts. Rosalba Hernandez, a professor of…
By Cliff Despres Salud America! Latinos are sorely underrepresented in clinical research and the healthcare workforce, said a minority health leader. Dr. Eliseo Perez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, called this issue a…
By Marisa Treviño ncluido In the 14 months since Donald Trump was sworn into office, a fear has been steadily growing across the country that this administration is marching the country back to a period in our history that…
By Melissa De Witte Futurity A new paper raises crucial legal and political questions about states having their own foreign policy and suggests that, in key ways, California already does. California—the country’s most populous state and the world’s sixth…
By Marcia G. Yerman Moms Clean Air Force As parents, one of our key and foremost concerns is keeping our children safe. Under the Trump administration’s philosophy of shrinking government, a slew of protections to children’s health are being…
LatinaLista — Like it or not, media plays a part in molding our expectations and perceptions of each other. And because media has historically been controlled by older, white men, the end result has been a proliferation of stereotypes…
By Colin Gordon Inequality.org In December 2013, a year into his second term, Barack Obama identified“dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility” as “the defining challenge of our time.” That observation — two years after Occupy Wall…
By Rafael Medina and Enrique Fernández-Toledo ncluido Six months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the federal government’s response has been inexcusably slow, its spending wasteful, and its aid inadequate. On January 31 of this year, the Federal Emergency…
By Steven S. Dudley The Conversation In October 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that pursuing the Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran gang also known as MS-13, was “a priority for our Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces.” “Drugs are…
By Cliff Despres Salud America Latino and other minority youth have higher rates of poverty and greater gaps in education and health opportunity than their white peers, according to a new report. The 2018 County Health Rankings found that:…
By Laurel Thomas Futurity Stereotypes about who develops eating disorders may contribute to men and people of color missing out on getting proper health care, researchers report. In a survey of college-age students, Kendrin Sonneville and Sarah Lipson of…
By Merike Blofield, Christina Ewig & Jennifer M. Piscopo The Conversation When Michelle Bachelet steps down as Chile’s president on March 11, she will bring to a close not just her own administration but also an era of female…
By Nate Balis Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange It’s fair to say that most of us working in the youth justice field do so because we’re committed to brighter futures for all kids, especially the ones facing the longest…
LatinaLista — Biasness is so systemic within our society that it not only rears its ugly head in face-to-face interactions but online between bots and people — and it seems between educators and their students in online classrooms too….
By Lia Seirotti Saving Places Writer Lia Seirotti collaborated on a project for Little Havana Me Importa, an interactive museum exhibit in Little Havana, Miami, a National Treasure of the National Trust. Here, she reflects on her experiences in…
LatinaLista — “For all of you who saw me as a groundbreaker, I’m sorry I couldn’t carry the ball over the finish line, but man, I sure did try…” Former NBC Today anchor Ann Curry addressing viewers on her…
