Opinion

“Is that…for me..?” my mother asked, looking in her rearview mirror. I turned around and saw the red and blue flashing lights she was referring to.

Nunca me he sentido tan colombiana como cuando migré a Estados Unidos.

As states of the union, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, can become a powerful political force to push forward the inconclusive agenda of our nation’s minority communities.”

To be clear: this isn’t about Trump. This isn’t about Obama. This isn’t about any of your favorite or most hated politicians. And this isn’t about the embargo.

The man at the center of the last big debate about what constitutes Latinidad and how it’s represented in Hollywood is at it again.

We now have a governor in Florida who pushes politically motivated legislation and enforces it selectively to his political convenience.

Cubans on the island have been historically ignored by the American people despite being less than 100 miles away.

Authoritarian leaders tend to seek to hold on to power by any means they deem necessary—whether through censorship, media control, or coups. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is one of those leaders.

Working together as lead site investigators for CommuniVax, a national initiative to improve vaccine equity, we and our teams in Alabama, California and Idaho, along with CommuniVax teams elsewhere in the nation, have documented a variety of stances toward vaccination that simply can’t be cast as “hesitant.”

In an effort to bring some light to this debate, it is proper to begin by making a few clarifications.

The failure by a single Republican to back last Tuesday’s procedural vote simply to begin debate on the For the People Act suggests that, in their eyes, democracy as we’ve known it is no longer worth defending.

It is painful when you see two of your own lying shot execution-style on the floor, the Puerto Rican flag fluttering in the background as a terrible requiem to the American Dream.

There is a dangerous habit in education that does not get a lot of attention.

I realize I’m wading into dangerous waters. Conversations about whether and why Latinos leave, stay, and return —or don’t— to their “countries of origin” can be fraught.

There’s no point in building people up just to knock them down. I’d rather learn what we can from her, celebrate the successes she represents, and encourage growth in her and others.

Outside of Chicago-based outlets and a growing collection of tweets, this murder has gone widely underreported.

This article compares two conjunctures in Puerto Rico’s modern history: 1928 through 1940; and 2006 through 2020.

The backlash against those talking about colorism in Hollywood is sucking the air out of the room where real discussions are taking place

These are the conversations that advance decolonization in Congress. Let’s have them.

For the last five years of our lives, we’ve not been able to hug him and say: “Have a good day, Dad.”

Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little assistance.