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President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation with a message of unity: "Let this grim era ...
By Katie Glueck and Thomas Kaplan, New York Times – Nov. 7, 2020 WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. addressed the nation for the first time as president-elect on Saturday night, delivering a message of unity and trying to soothe the extraordinary divisions that defined the last four years ... -
The Mayas built the first water filtration system in the Americas
By Katherine Kornei, Science Magazine – Nov. 5, 2020 The Maya city of Tikal is famous for its soaring palaces and temples. But something far more humble kept Tikal functioning: its water filtration system, the earliest known of its kind. Researchers recently discovered a volcanic mineral that captures microbes and ... -
The complicated relationship between Mexican Americans and the L.A. Dodgers
A new Smithsonian book and an upcoming exhibition, ‘¡Pleibol!,’ recounts the singular importance of baseball in Latino history and culture. By Priscilla Leiva, SMITHSONIANMAG – OCTOBER 22, 2020 Since the 1970s, Los Desterrados, meaning “The Uprooted,” have annually convened at their childhood stomping grounds right outside of the gates of ... -
The Long History of Blaming Immigrants in Times of Sickness
BY: Tara Wu, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM –OCTOBER 19, 2020 On a chilly morning in February, about a thousand Chinese immigrants, Chinese Americans and others filled the streets of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown. They marched down Grant Avenue led by a bright red banner emblazoned with the words “Fight the Virus, NOT the ... -
Mexican American religious life will be preserved in UCLA archive collection
By acknowledging these nuances of religion, ‘you end up with a much more complex understanding of people,’ said Chon Noriega, director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. By: Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service – April 14, 2020 LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center archives Mexican American ... -
Exclusive: SDPD officer blows whistle on 'rewards for arrests' program
By Jennifer Kastner ~ ABC 10 News ~ March 14, 2018 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - In an exclusive interview with 10News, a San Diego police officer is blowing the whistle on a newly unveiled program that reports to reward officers for making more narcotics arrests. “It’s completely everything that we ... -
Educational Opportunity Program celebrates 50 years
Monica Gallardo, The Daily 49er ~ November 6, 2016 http://www.daily49er.com/news/2016/11/06/educational-opportunity-program-celebrates-50-years/ Approximately 200 former students of the Educational Opportunity Program reminisced about their academic experience during the program’s 50th anniversary celebration Friday morning at The Pointe inside the Walter Pyramid. Invited guests and their families watched as various speakers discussed the ...
