“David Romero remembers the bad old days in Cherán, Michoacán. The days before the small mountain town of indigenous Purépecha indians staged an armed revolt against narcos who were terrorizing the town. Then one day in 2011, a group of elderly women from the town organized a spontaneous revolt, halting the narcos’ trucks and refusing…
“Fifty years ago this April, Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. Today we look back at the last three years of King’s life, beginning after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Despite the passage of the monumental legislation, King set his eyes…
“Four months after Hurricane Maria, about 450,000 of 1.5 million electricity customers in Puerto Rico still have no service. Blackouts regularly occur for hours at a time, even in San Juan. Special correspondent Monica Villamizar reports on the emergency efforts to restore power, and how some have taken matters into their own hands as outdated…
“Juliet Lubwama is a senior at the Downingtown STEM Academy. She serves as a 2017 National Student Poet for the Northeast, along with four other high school students in different regions. Through her poetry, she discusses the different struggles people face in life.” Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
The following article about the upcoming 2018 Michigan election is part of a three-semester-long project called Vote 2018: The Future of America. The project, which began in fall 2017, is examining three states (Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada) and how the dynamics of a politically divided nation will impact the 2018 midterm elections. PalacioMagazine.com teamed up with the fall semester classes of Political Science Professor…
“Salvadoran traditions are more than just Pupusas (not that we don’t LOVE them) but we do have some other fun items lying around the house.” Watch more at https://www.youtube.com/perolike
“Over the course of his six-decade career, Hugh Masekela’s jazz and anti-apartheid activism made him a beloved international figure. In exile, he used his music as a form of activism to call for Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and freedom in South Africa. Masekela died Tuesday in Johannesburg at 78 years old.” Watch more at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
‘How To Make Venezuelan Arepas: La Reina Pepiada!” Watch more at https://goo.gl/P82MhM
“We speak with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about the new collection of essays she edited that is titled “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.” Taylor is an assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.” Democracy Now! is an independent global news…
“Dr. Morley discusses the intersection of structural inequality, the cycle of violence, and the impacts of violence on the brains of both members of impoverished communities and the law enforcement officials policing these communities. Dr. Morley explains how compassion based interventions alleviate the impacts of the cycle of violence on the brains of community members…