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Democracy or monarchy? 19th-century Mexico struggled for identity
By Leigh Thelmadatter | Mexico Daily News | MAR. 18, 2023 | Mural by Jose Clemente-Orozco Benito Juárez is the only individual to have a federal holiday in Mexico. But he is not the father of his country like George Washington, so why? Juárez’s time was a few decades post-Independence, during ... -
L.A.’s only Indigenous school helps return land to California’s Native population
By Melissa Gomez | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 21, 2023 | Photo by Genaro Molina When Jamie Rocha and her family first visited the swath of undeveloped land in the Monterey Hills late last year, the grass was dead, the ground muddy. But on a recent Thursday, after drenching ... -
From red bastion to blue bulwark: What political shift in Colorado and West means for ...
By Mark Barabak | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 21, 2023 | Photo by Ed Andrieski DENVER — Kevin Priola was a Republican before he could even vote. Inspired by Ronald Reagan, he preregistered with the GOP at age 17. He joined the College Republicans at the University of Colorado in Boulder ... -
IMMIGRATION POLICY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY
For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions — but Dreamers like me have seen that there’s another way. By Alliyah Lusuegro | Foreign Policy in Focus | MAR. 20, 2023 | Photo from ShutterShock The Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, turned ... -
He helped LAUSD’s most ‘invisible’ workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn’t done
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 22, 2023 | Photo by Christina House Southern California’s latest storm didn’t dampen the spirits of over 300 workers who gathered in front of a school bus yard in Van Nuys before dawn on Tuesday, the first day of a planned ... -
El Magonista | Vol. 11, no. 9 | March 16, 2023
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser "El Magonista" | Vol. 11, No. 9 | March 16, 2023 CMSC HONORS THE LEGACY OF MARCO ANTONIO FIREBAUGH: GODFATHER OF THE DREAMERS FEATURING CMSC'S DREAMERS STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM ALUMNI AND PROFESSOR ARMANDO VAZQUEZ-RAMOS AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER. FOR MORE INFO CONTACT US AT (562) 972-0986 ... -
Renowned Mexican actor Ignacio López Tarso dies at 98
By MND Staff | Mexico News Daily | MAR. 13, 2023 | Photo by Andrea Murcia Beloved Mexican actor Ignacio López Tarso, who starred as the hungry peasant Macario in the 1960 film of the same name, has died at age 98, his family reported over the weekend. López Tarso ... -
Wisconsin Attorney General Kaul, Multistate Coalition Push Back Against Ongoing Effort to End DACA
Coalition reiterates the critical importance of DACA for states across the country and the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding individuals who depend on it. Office of Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul | MAR. 10, 2023 | Photo by Drake White-Bergey MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Kaul today joined a coalition ... -
NC Attorney General Josh Stein Continues to Fight to Preserve DACA
By North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein | MAR. 10, 2023 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief pushing back against the ongoing, misguided effort led by Texas to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. North Carolina is home to approximately 24,000 DACA grantees ... -
Companies say they want diversity. So why are Latinos left off corporate boards?
By Margot Roosevelt | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 15, 2023 | Photo by Ludi Leiva Cisco Systems, the multinational tech giant based in San Jose, has no Latino on its board of directors. Ditto for Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. Ditto for Tesla ...
