By Eloisa Portillo-Morales (Photo Caption: From left: Angela Tovar, Marisa Bono, and Agustin Cabrera) Cities are leading the charge on climate action—reimagining how streets can be used, passing bold climate legislation, and creating green, equitable jobs. At the core…
Editor’s note: In January, we wrote the following piece and submitted it to several journalism organizations to try and jumpstart a conversation we felt was long overdue. We heard nada from any of them. Yet, in the meantime, the…
By Edward T. Rincón, Ph.D. Polls and surveys continue to play an important role in monitoring public sentiments and guiding campaign strategy as we have witnessed in the current presidential election and the Census 2020. With changes in the growth…
By Edward T. Rincón LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: Crossposted from The Culture of Research blog) It really makes little sense. Despite the fact that Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans are being hospitalized and dying at considerably higher rates than…
By Marlen Suyapa Bodden LatinaLista Not everyone in Mexico is Spanish and indigenous (mestizo). Black people have been a significant part of the post-Columbian history of Mexico and even contributed to the very founding of the modern Mexican Republic….
By Myrelis Diaz Martinez LatinaLista We do everything we can to protect the children in our lives so that they can grow into healthy, strong adults. As a doting aunt, I want my nieces to be healthy and safe…
By Sonia Rangel LatinaLista Climate change is happening NOW, and it is making natural disasters worse. Right at this moment, whether we want to believe it or not, it is threatening our health, our economy, and ultimately, our future….
By Noelia Rivera-Calderón LatinaLista When I thought about this Latinx Heritage Month, it was hard to get in a celebratory mood. Of course, I celebrate the beauty, strength, creativity, and power of the Latinx community year-round. But it felt wrong…
By Todd Myers LatinaLista (This op-ed originally appeared on CrossCut the week of Sept. 20, 2019) As Amazon workers and others walk out Friday for the Sept. 20 Climate Strike, they can take one of two lessons from…
By Dr. Jessica Lavariega Monforti LatinaLista Every year it feels like you can hear more and more people speaking Spanish across the country, and these days that includes presidential candidates on the debate stage. So far, a number of Democratic…
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…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The odds of Lupe Valdez becoming the first Latina governor of Texas were always considered a long-shot but did a new lawsuit just tip the balance in her favor? Former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez made…
By Sam Toia ncluido What do celebrity chef José Andrés and Andrew Carnegie have in common? They’re both immigrants who built American empires. Andrés is famous for his appearances on Top Chef and his successful group of restaurants…
By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org Big Business fought hard to kill a new regulation requiring corporations to disclose the gap between their CEO and median worker pay. For eight years after the regulation became law, corporate lobby groups fought to…
By Margaret Goldman Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) While our nation’s steadily declining rates of juvenile incarceration are encouraging, widening racial disparities are a pressing call for concern. Racial disparities often begin in the school system and persist at…
Marisa Treviño ncluido The term “tribal politics” is widely used to explain the deep political fissures cracking the foundational parties of our democracy. Yet, there’s another tribal term that has the potential to be more dangerous in splitting the…
By Stephen Utych The Conversation The Associated Press, a nonprofit newswire published by 1,300 papers and broadcasters, has updated its stylebook to clarify that “poll results that seek to preview the outcome of an election must never be the…
By Yasmin Anwar Futurity When Starbucks announced plans to conduct anti-bias training at its 8,000 outlets following the unprovoked arrests of two African-American customers in Philadelphia, psychologist Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton was at once impressed and skeptical. A veteran scholar of…
By Audrey Duc Council on Hemispheric Affairs Although racism is not a new phenomenon in Latin America, the demonstration of racism has appeared in new ways according to the development of the continent. A recent example is Jair Bolsonaro,…
By Cliff Despres Salud America What are you doing for Cinco de Mayo? Many will use it as an excuse to party with margaritas and tacos. We at Salud America! invite you to think outside the box and…
By Jordan Bennett Futurity An innovative book distribution program that provides free children’s books in low-income neighborhoods, combined with supportive adults who encourage reading, can boost children’s literacy and learning opportunities, a new study shows. “Both physical and psychological…
By Nidia Bañuelos The Conversation In response to protests calling for police reform and accountability, some U.S. police departments are partnering with colleges and universities to develop anti-bias training for their employees. In Washington D.C., for example, officers will…
By Stacy Cantu Salud America! Exposure to green spaces can boost brain development in school children, according to a new Spanish study with big implications for U.S. Latino children who lack access to parks where they live. The new…
By Paula and Larry Bitt Juvenile Justice Information Exchange All children make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes get them in trouble with the law. It happens in all kinds of families and in all kind of neighborhoods. But when…
By Edward Rincón ncluido So sitting in a Starbucks and waiting for a meeting with someone is now considered a disturbance that warrants calling the police. Apparently, a Starbucks store manager in Philadelphia recently decided to call the…
