The nation’s most linguistically diverse state has a tortured history with bilingual education in public schools. The Education Department can’t — and the Legislature won’t — do what it takes to repair the damage.

Flouting federal laws, schools routinely fail to provide qualified interpreters. Districts say they lack the resources ‘no matter how hard we try’.

How the put-down of “no sabo kid” became embraced, with Latinos redefining identity beyond perfect Spanish.

Long-time palabra contributor, photojournalist Zaydee Sánchez, winner of the 2025 American Mosaic Journalism Prize — for coverage of misrepresented peoples — discusses covering the LA fires, journalism and community.

Inspired by her personal experience, indie rock artist and activist Roxiny seeks to elevate the healing power of music.

A year ago, 40 men were killed in a detention center fire in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. An examination by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune shows that it was the foreseen and foreseeable result of landmark shifts in U.S. border policies.

After unprecedented protests swept Cuba in 2021, a wave of people left the island to cross the United States’ southern border. One was journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo, who tells his story of being smuggled through Central America and Mexico.

Echoes of U.S. Border Policies Impact Ecuador, Restricting Chinese Migrants.

Sheinbaum celebrates tariff delay, but looming threat rattles companies on both sides of the border. Fight is far from over, she cautioned.

Delivery workers in New York City find themselves at the center of debates over e-bike regulation and pedestrian safety. Advocates for their rights argue it's these workers who need more protection.

No chaos but plenty of anxiety among aid workers, government officials and, of course, immigrant families.

An immigrant small-business owner defies the odds after Hurricane Helene and inspires a new generation.

This is how small shop owners affected by the fires in Los Angeles survive.

Many immigrant children in Chicago are too anxious to go to school, fearing parents will be deported.

The job of covering traumatic subject matter often falls on journalists of color, many of whom ultimately leave the industry due to lack of support. The story of one such journalist, Laura Gómez Rodríguez, begs the question: What responsibility does a newsroom have to journalists of color whose mental health struggles are a direct result of their job?

At a time of dire threat, activists reignite a movement to provide healing through "radical hope" and vow to organize and protect those most vulnerable.

A Mexican government report predicts that industrializing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec will devastate natural areas, turning them into polluted industrial zones with contaminated water, infertile land, polluted air, and widespread animal deaths.

The first female president of Mexico says she will continue the reforms of her predecessor; analysts predict greater diplomatic openness with the United States.

With insufficient information and little notice, the indigenous consultations supported by the Mexican government were the first violation of the peoples' rights of the Isthmus. The falsification of signatures followed, along with the votes of deceased people.