Staff’s Note on Hispanic Heritage Month
Staff’s Note on Hispanic Heritage Month
This past May, we re-launched our platform with a new vision and a new look. We committed to creating a space that celebrated distinct cultures, voices, and stories. We told ourselves that above all else, we wanted to avoid being put in a box. We’ve all experienced this box - [...]
Trans Kids Need Our Support, 12-Year-Old Adelyn Shares Why
Trans Kids Need Our Support, 12-Year-Old Adelyn Shares Why
When Adelyn was 7-years-old, she would regularly pray for one thing before going to bed at night: that God would make her a girl after death. Now, at twelve, she is living openly as a transgender girl in South Texas. In a newly released video, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) [...]
The History of California’s Punjabi-Mexican Communities
The History of California’s Punjabi-Mexican Communities
In 2017, a video began to spread across Twitter and Facebook, capturing an “impromptu neighborhood dance party” that began when neighboring Punjabi and Mexican families in suburban Stockton, California, combined their respective house parties in the street. Clips of the party captured on cell phone were edited to show how [...]
Op-Ed: If We Want Healthcare Equity, We Need to Get Radical
Op-Ed: If We Want Healthcare Equity, We Need to Get Radical
My life changed forever the day that my mother received her leukemia diagnosis. At least, I thought, Mama’s job will come through for her. For the decade prior, my mother had been working in health insurance. While we processed the difficult news, my family assumed that my mother’s job-secured healthcare [...]
Lina Hidalgo Can’t be Stopped
Lina Hidalgo Can’t be Stopped
For Judge Lina Hidalgo of Harris County, Texas, the work is never done. Wearing a navy suit and a matching floral face mask, ringed by her signature crop of black curls, the top elected official of the nation’s third-largest county announced the grim news in early August: the Houston-area COVID-19 [...]
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops: Latinos Most Affected
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops: Latinos Most Affected
Life expectancy in the United States fell 1.5 years in 2020, and declined even more for members of the Latinx community, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decline represents the sharpest life expectancy fall in a single year since World War II. [...]
WATCH: Laz Alonso Addresses Cuban Protests in Instagram Video
WATCH: Laz Alonso Addresses Cuban Protests in Instagram Video
Laz Alonso, from Amazon's series "The Boys," used his social media platform earlier this month to address the ongoing protests in Cuba and speak to the political situation of his ancestral homeland. His comments came as a response to the Black Lives Matter statement on the political situation in Cuba [...]