Opinion

The VP Democratic nominee is not playing “politics.”

Communities creating, debating, and adopting new labels is not a new phenomenon.

We are in the middle of a global pandemic, social unrest, looming mass evictions, and another Great Depression, but the Hispanics are at it again.

Her tenure as state attorney for Miami-Dade is patterned by a refusal to hold power accountable.

Here is what he told me when I thanked him for his son Beau.

As a queer Person of Color, I remain committed to dismantling the system of toxic masculinity. I have to be. If I do not succeed, it may literally kill me.

In Pennsylvania, Puerto Ricans in particular are going to be mobilized by other Puerto Ricans, especially if they come from those same communities. It is baffling to us that the Biden campaign does not seem to get this point, even if campaign statements about the island still trickle out. So what is at stake?

If the federal government wanted, it could use its considerable resources to address the language gap in public health and social services.

According to the best available science, children are not “virtually immune.” They’re not immune at all.

If someone wanted to make us disappear, they’ve only made clear that we can no longer be invisible.

Joe Biden is the only one on the ballot with the moral fiber and vision to unite and lead all of us.

In breaking ranks with the Old Normal, and never turning back, it gave birth to a revolution —a multiracial, multigenerational movement against racism and economic injustice, in the middle of a devastating pandemic— made up of many powerful voices who this time refuse to be silenced.

Why will she not provide any more details on the bill? Why does she feel the need to praise the President and inject her political preferences during her speeches about the fight for justice for Vanessa? Why the lack of transparency?

In the end, what Trump is intellectually and morally incapable of understanding is that long after he’s gone, immigrants will keep coming, keep dreaming, and keep helping make America as great as it will ever be.

While everyone is at risk, low-income, Black and Latino Californians are dying at higher rates than high-income and non-Latino whites, and analyses suggest these gaps are widening.

Boricua Freedom Writer Norma Iris Lafé chronicles how Trump has failed Puerto Rico at every turn, beginning with September of 2017.

A return to old and failed policies is not the option if Puerto Rico is to succeed in the world economy.

Although I did not experience these six raids myself, I am writing from the perspective of not only a student researcher, but as a daughter with a parent at an ICE facility amidst a global pandemic.

People might think I’m being alarmist, but I am not. 

Mead can write this racist garbage because academia remains a very racist and white-dominated place.

The virus has managed to act out one of America’s most obsessively repeated storylines, in which the nation is invaded by a dangerous outside element.