The pandemic, with help from the Trump administration, is stripping away the camouflage of those hidden pockets of shameful inequality, social injustice, political oppression and otherwise inhumane practices and policies that have always lurked beneath the hype of the…
Though the world continues to roil in turmoil and hate it’s important to remember good still exists. What better day to take a breath and celebrate — Valentine’s Day! Looking through a ‘love’ lens won’t make the headlines hurt…
By Silva Mathema ncluido The April arrival of the Central American caravan at the southern U.S. border once again placed the nation’s focus on individuals and families who traveled thousands of miles to seek asylum in the United…
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…
LatinaLista — The world understands why the refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. are streaming into Western Europe in numbers described as “unprecedented in its sheer scale since the end of World War II.” Thanks to the hundreds of…
By Valori Corral-Nava Borderzine “They never did any harm to anyone and still they continued to kill them… For those of us left we continue to struggle and ask for justice.” EL PASO – Bianey Reyes, 18, nervously pats…
LatinaLista — A study 14 years in the making confirms that one sign of our nation’s broken immigration system is in its unequal treatment of immigrant women. The new study Gendered Paths to Legal Status: The Case of Latin…
LatinaLista — Families in Syria. Human rights activists and journalists in Mexico. Colombians standing up to local gangs. All these people and millions more in other parts of the world are today’s displaced people or refugees. People who fear…
LatinaLista — The more I filmed, the less I understood and the more curious I became. It’s with those words that filmmaker Mark Aitken describes his journey into one of the most bizarre places on the planet — the Vision…
LatinaLista — The story was all too familiar — a young, bright college freshman studying electrical engineering on a full scholarship at a local Dallas university suddenly caught in the rusty wheels of federal bureaucracy, otherwise known as U.S….
