In the 2020 presidential election, Latinxs nationwide voted about the same ways they have for the last four decades: Roughly 70% voted Democrat, and around 30% voted Republican. However, shocking results out of South Texas and southern Florida shook that reliable narrative. In heavily Latinx counties in the south of
On Wednesday, Dec.16, the city of Palo Alto, California, reluctantly resolved a legal dispute regarding the use of Foothills Park, which since 1965 was only open to Palo Alto residents. That Thursday was the first day in over half a century that non-residents could enjoy the park’s
Content creators in Hollywood are known to bend the truth. When it comes to potraying abortion plotlines on the screen, things are no different. A new report by Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at the University of California, San Francisco looked into the ways abortion patients and topics
As surely as night follows day, any flex of political power by Black and brown people in the United States will be followed by a reactionary white supremacist show of force. The pattern of racist white backlash to the barest hint of racial progress has persisted since the earliest days
For years, prominent human rights attorney Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan has positioned herself as an advocate for Latinx communities, most recently identifying as a Puerto Rican woman from New York determined to aid the island and bring attention to the economic and humanitarian crises produced by colonization. Unbeknownst to many
After a contentious runoff race Democrats will be taking control of the Senate. Rev. Raphael Warnock was the first projected winner of Georgia’s two special elections Tuesday night, which turned to runoffs in November after no candidate secured 50% of the votes. The race was officially called by major
Iris De Anda’s family moved to the east Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno in 1982 when working class families could afford to purchase homes in the area. She was only three years old at the time. Today, De Anda is a member of Reclaim and Rebuild Our Community
“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Fannie Lou Hamer’s infamous words have stuck with Black women through the fight for equality, racial justice, the gun violence crisis, and so many other fights for social justice. I’m part of a generation of young women who
After years of what Emelia Cowans-Taylor describes as “racial microaggressions” by management at Raleigh-based WRAL-TV, the 13-year lottery host was fired in August after testing positive for COVID-19. Cowans-Taylor, a communications strategist who has worked as a TV host, producer, and radio personality, believes
For much of its existence, a majority of U.S. history has been told through the narrow and exclusionary lens of “American exceptionalism.” A distortion of the historical record where historians have steered a one-dimensional, Eurocentric, white male-dominated narrative that has presented historical figures and events in ways
When 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr. was shot and killed by Philadelphia police in late October, hundreds of protestors took to the streets to demand justice. In response to the protests, Haverford College President Wendy Raymond and Dean Joyce Bylander sent out an email discouraging students from protesting and
After an emotionally exhausting year brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, a contentious election, and racial justice uprisings, people everywhere are desperate for an escape. To cope with all the feelings of uncertainty that 2020 has brought, many have been turning to one place guaranteed to bring a happy ending
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