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‘Amores perros’ 20 years later
By CARLOS AGUILAR, LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 19, 2020 Given the choice, Alejandro González Iñárritu would have picked music over film as his preferred outlet of artistic expression. This truth, ... -
What Americans don’t know about Latino history could fill a museum
By STEPHEN PITTI, LOS ANGELES TIMES ~ DEC. 16, 2020 On Thursday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) blocked a bipartisan congressional effort to establish a new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino, ... -
Grant asylum to families torn by Trump
BY: EMILY COHODES, SAHANA KRIBAKARAN AND DYLAN GEE, LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 8, 2020 More than 5,400 children have been detained and separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico ... -
Xavier Becerra goes from fighting to leading the U.S. Health department
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 7, 2020 California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra has been one of the most visible defenders of the Affordable Care Act in ... -
L.A. Times Letters to the Editor regarding ‘Latinx’: sounds inauthentic, what’s wrong with being Mexican?
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed – Dec. 3, 2020 To the editor: Thank you for Benjamin Francis-Fallon’s op-ed article on the emergence of the word “Latinx” to identify those of us ... -
The political fight between Latinos over ‘Latinx’
BY: BENJAMIN FRANCIS-FALLON, LOS ANGELES TIMES – NOV. 29, 2020 When asked how Democrats might translate their success among Arizona’s Latinx community in the latest presidential election, U.S. Rep. Ruben ... -
CSU graduation rates continue to climb, but equity gaps continue
By NINA AGRAWAL, Los Angeles Times – OCT. 23, 2020 Halfway through a 10-year initiative to increase the share of students who graduate, the nation’s largest public university continues to make ... -
Bad policies are turning colleges into COVID-19 hotbeds
BY: THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, LOS ANGELES TIMES – OCT. 20, 2020 Brigham Young University’s Idaho campus is investigating reports that its students have been intentionally exposing themselves to the ... -
SCOTUS grants Trump appeal to stop the Census early
By DAVID G. SAVAGE, LOS ANGELES TIMES – OCT. 13, 2020 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled for the Trump administration on Tuesday, upholding its decision to halt the collection of ... -
COVID19 destroying Mexico’s middle class
By KATE LINTHICUM, LOS ANGELES TIMES –SEP. 5, 2020 QUERETARO, Mexico — Monica Cardenas Leal was living the Mexican dream. As her once-sleepy hometown of Querétaro transformed into an international hub ...