Pero Like
From Pero Like: “I Discovered My Aunt Was A Dominican Legend”
Julissa Calderon goes to New York to do research on her late aunt Normandia Maldonado and finds out she is an ICON! Watch more at https://www.youtube.com/perolike
The Palacio Podcast
For Josh Butler, Housing Long Beach, His Fire was Born at Home
If you spend any time with Housing Long Beach Executive Director Josh Butler, you are immediately struck by his fiery commitment to his principles. Justice, fairness, and a voice for those who can’t speak for themselves are just some of what drives and frames his mission in life. Ask him why he continues to push…
Democracy Now
Immigrant Parents Search for Children Snatched by Gov’t at the Border
“More 2,300 children have been separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border after their parents were charged with illegal entry under the Trump administration’s ongoing “zero tolerance” policy. As concerns grow about poor coordination between Customs and Border Patrol, which takes the children, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which puts them into detention…
PBS NewsHour
Amid outrage at family separations, Trump supporters dig in
“As thousands of children were separated from their parents at the Mexican border, President Trump and his supporters doubled down, advancing his Republican approval rating to the highest in history. Many in his base came together to either deny the situation or sympathize with the claim that Trump is under attack. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent…
TEDx
TEDx presents “Why This Time is Different” by Ashil Jhaveri
“The most powerful way to influence how politicians vote is by voting yourself. But Congress’s inability to pass effective legislation of any kind has led to a decrease in voting; why vote if it doesn’t matter. This means politicians are voted in by only the extremes and thus sets us in a vicious circle: voters…
Democracy Now
Migrant Children Have Been Forcibly Injected With Psychiatric Drugs?
“Shocking reports have revealed that immigrant children were subdued and incapacitated with powerful psychiatric drugs at a detention center in South Texas. Legal filings show that children held at Shiloh Treatment Center in southern Houston have been “forcibly injected with medications that make them dizzy, listless, obese and even incapacitated,” according to reports by Reveal….
PBS NewsHour
Immigrant teens say they were restrained, beaten at facility
“Claims of severe physical and psychological abuse of immigrant teenagers at a juvenile detention facility near Staunton, Virginia, has prompted Gov. Ralph Northam to launch an investigation, hours after they were reported by the Associated Press. John Yang talks with the AP’s Michael Beisecker, one of the reporters who broke the story, about the troubling…
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Empowering Young Latinas – Step Up | Stories Of Us
“Step Up is an organization that’s giving young girls from low-income communities the confidence to follow their dreams ❤ #StoriesOfUs” Step Up propels girls living or going to school in under-resourced communities to fulfill their potential by empowering them to become confident, college-bound, career-focused, and ready to join the next generation of professional women. Visit https://www.suwn.org/#…
Pero Like
From Pero Like: What It’s Like Being Asian-Latino in America
We come in all colors and combinations. I’m half-Dominican and Puerto Rican. I’ve met people half-black and Mexican and half-Japanese and Brazilian. Our history reflects a history of colonialism and also of survival and most importantly, sometimes just simple love. “We don’t have a family tree, we have an entire forest.” Watch more at https://www.youtube.com/perolike
Democracy Now
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Describes “Acts of Indecency” at Border
“President Trump is continuing to blame Democrats for his administration’s practice of separating at least 2,000 children from their parents in recent weeks. He also doubled down on the practice in an address Monday, ahead of his meetings today with Republicans to discuss compromise legislation on a hardline immigration bill. We speak with Rep. Sheila…