How 3 Latina Comic Book Artists Carved Out a Space in a Male-Dominated Industry
How 3 Latina Comic Book Artists Carved Out a Space in a Male-Dominated Industry
*These 3 young Latinas are killing it in a white male dominated world! VL By Yara Simón, Remezcla (8.5 minute read) In 2014, comics historian and researcher Tim Hanley summed […]
Why Teachers Cannot Remain Neutral About the Presidential Election
*Presidential politics in the high school classroom: Saying Trump’s comments are unacceptable is not political indoctrination. It’s teaching. VL By Ray Salazar, The White Rhino (4 minute read) The Chicago Public […]
The Truth About “Locker Room Talk”
*Henry Flores calls for a national movement to end “locker room talk.” VL By Henry Flores, NewsTaco (4 minute read) Donald Trump’s recent vulgarities, there are so many, about how […]
Closed Doors: Black and Latino Students Are Excluded from Top Public Universities
By Elizabeth Baylor, Center for American Progress (12.5 minute read) In the fall of 2014, 297,000 African American and Latino students enrolled in America’s top public research universities. While access […]
North Carolina Latinos left homeless by Matthew await help
*The good news is that a group of Latino residents of nearby Raleigh arrived in Newton Grove this week with emergency supplies. VL By EFE/Fox News Latino (2 minute read) […]
Latinos Are Especially Hard-hit by Climate Change
*A majority of Latinos live in California, Texas, Florida and New York, which are the most affected by extreme heat, air pollution, and flooding. And 9 in 10 Latinos want climate action […]
These New Podesta Emails Won’t Help Hillary With Latino Voters
*To be fair, Podesta bad-mouths a wide swath of people, from Bernie Sanders supporters to Hillary Clinton’s friend Sydney Blumenthal. What he wrote specifically about Latinos was a personal attack […]
The forgotten history of how Latinos earned the right to vote
*The battles for equal educational rights for Latinos go back many, many generations. And many of those historic battles started in Texas. This is a good read for perspective, context, […]
An Ode To The Latino Grocery Store.
*This is awesome! I can relate. VL By Alex Alvarez, MiTu (2.5 minute read) Chances are, you have shopped at both large, chain grocery stores and smaller, Latino grocery stores, where the […]
An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’
*She’s blunt, but she makes a good point. I like how she uncovers the use of “quality” to discriminate. VL By Marybeth Gasman, Washington Post (5.5 minute read) While giving a […]
