Unknown to the general public until only a few months ago, Haley sounds insistently today as a favorite to become the next Secretary of State and even as a possible candidate for the White House in ...

I knew about this poem by María Mercedes Carranza through Jesús Abad Colorado, who read it to me in the most moving interview I have ever done. That day he told me something more than made my blood go ...

On Thursday, Feb. 24, Florida’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” within the state’s primary schools. The ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters a period of slowed uncertainty in Philadelphia, there is another crisis in the city that’s kept up its pace throughout the past year. In 2019, right before the COVID-19 ...

The California Latino Legislative Caucus — founded over 50 years ago in 1973 — was created to advance and fight for the educational, social, political and cultural interests of the large Latino ...

Guatemala authorities have raised the death toll from the Fuego volcano eruption in June to 159, after three more victims were identified on Friday. The National Forensic Sciences Institute said it ...

TIME Magazine has named several Latinx trailblazers as some of their 100 most influential people of 2020, including artist J Balvin, Indigenous activist Nemonte Nenquimo and Chef Gabriella Camara. But ...

On Monday Feb. 8, Reps. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) and Alma Adams (D-NC), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), and the Black Maternal Health Caucus, introduced the Black Maternal Momnibus Act of 2021. During a ...

Through a constitutional reform, Chilean parliamentarians reinstated the measure that had been annulled in 2012, and that will now be applied in all electoral elections and plebiscites, except in ...

Silence equals compliance. And compliance results in profit loss and a tarnished relationship with the public. Corporations that use their platforms to take a stance on social issues are not only ...

"Damaris" of the lush black hair and inquisitive dark eyes is a single mom and for the past four years has been a sex worker in Mexico City, fighting day by day against discrimination and police ...

When Shannon Roche moved from rural Tennessee to Philadelphia, she did not know she wanted to be in the food business. “I was actually in college getting my Ph.D. in Marine Biology Chemistry, so I ...