“Frederic Angus shares a story of where Salsa came from and why we need it even more today. Salsannati Dance Company’s intent is to share the love for Latin Dance around the Tri State area. The belief is that through dance, people can express joy, personality, and the unique connections made possible by the language…
“Dr. Scott Allen is under contract with the Department of Homeland Security to oversee the conditions at the border detention facilities, but he’s speaking out against these child jails. He says many children are ill and more are vulnerable to getting sick. In addition to having poor access to adequate resources, these children are likely…
“While America’s jail population may be finally decreasing after decades of massive growth, that doesn’t apply to women. In fact, the proportion of women spending time in jail is going up. Special correspondent David Tereshchuk explores some of the causes and potential remedies.” Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour
As we celebrate American History this week, PalacioMagazine.com will feature a daily tribute to the history that defines who we are as a nation. From the History Channel: “An estimated 40% of Americans are descended from people who passed through the Ellis Island immigration station during its six decades of operation. But what was the…
“Amid reports of inhumane and degrading conditions at child immigration jails along the southern border, we speak with Satsuki Ina, a Japanese-American psychotherapist who was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a maximum-security internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. “After decades of living our lives as compliant and quiet, and demonstrating and proving…
“Reading and writing can provide a profession, a passion or an escape from reality. In Washington, D.C., the Free Minds Book Club positions the activities as mechanisms through which incarcerated people can express themselves in healthy and constructive ways. As Jeffrey Brown reports, inmates who participate in the organization have a much lower recidivism rate…
I really believed in California Dreams. I still do. People come to California from all over the world to make new lives. That’s why I came. It was a little past midnight when I arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on the morning of June 26, 1984. Behind me were a little more than thirty-five…
“What does it mean to be a good neighbor to Black mothers who are experiencing the brunt of America’s maternal mortality crisis? What we do for a living and how we live our lives contributes to either helping or harming the state of Black mothers in our country. Gabriella A. Nelson is a city planner,…
“Reparations is not just about enslavement,” says acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, following up on his congressional testimony about H.R. 40 and the case for reparations on Wednesday. “There was 250 years of enslavement — that period of theft. After that, there was 100 years of terror — that period of theft. Our present system of…
“The Associated Press details grave conditions inside a Texas migrant detention facility where 250 infants, children and teenagers were being held without adequate food, water or sanitation during a recent visit. Warren Binford, a law professor at Willamette University, joins William Brangham to share her firsthand account, what Border Patrol agents think and what’s next…