“Five months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, swaths of the island still have no electricity, while food and water supplies have been slow to arrive. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, known as FEMA, has been hit by a series of scandals, after it was revealed that only a fraction of the 30 million meals…
“Hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico have been displaced because of Hurricane Maria, with nearly 4,000 families finding temporary shelter in hotels on the mainland. But funding for their stays under FEMA’s Transitional Shelter Assistance program is set to expire in March. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano traveled to Hartford, Connecticut, to speak with…
This high school student shares important words of wisdom about the way we see things can quickly change when we are forced to look at them differently. The death of a brother from a heroin overdose was his catalyst. “Corey Eisert-Wlodarczyk is a Senior at McDowell High School in Erie Pa. He is a member…
“What’s Good in Your Hood features Latinos who are changing the food game and transforming their communities along the way. First up? Learn how a kid from Pico Rivera started Guerrilla Tacos, one of the hottest taco trucks in LA!” Subscribe to their channel: https://goo.gl/P82MhM
“Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are continuing to debate the future of DACA, the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which gives some 800,000 young undocumented immigrants permission to live and work in the United States. Republican lawmakers are pushing to include an amendment to punish so-called sanctuary cities as part of any immigration legislation…
“Indiana is one of the states poised to enact work requirements for some citizens with Medicaid coverage — a controversial policy and long-sought goal for Republicans. But advocates for the poor have protested loudly in recent months, saying many will lose coverage or be ensnared by bureaucratic mistakes. Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports in collaboration…
“Meet Victoria Smith, a High School junior who discusses incorporating spoken word into the high school curriculum and generalizing communication and vulnerability amongst the people. She shares her ideas about bringing the poets out of teens without creating the next Shakespeare.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but…
There has forever been a struggle to identify and accept the spectrum of identities in the Latino community; from the African and Indigenous roots roots in the Caribbean to Mexico through Central and South America. My father was a light-skinned Puerto Rican who married a brown-skinned Dominican. I’ve witnessed first-hand the rejection and racism by…
Editor: The following OpEd, “The Disability Rights Movement Is Not Invisible,” was written by Kirsten Hernandez, a student at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Hernandez is President of Students with Disabilities at Large at the school. Within the past two decades, we have seen a massive shift in the awareness of civil rights issues. There has…
People have often asked me “where are you from?” When I tell them I’m from New York, they continue to ask me “no, where are you from?” Somehow, they don’t just get it. I just want to know, “Who appointed you the border guard?” “Ever been told to “go back to where you came from”?…