Emiliano, a boy diagnosed with adhd, faces a system that doesn't know how to see him. While he deals with labels and barriers, his mother — a Guatemalan journalist and refugee in the United States — fights to pave the way for him, convinced that her son is not a problem to be fixed, but a beautiful mind that the world has not yet learned to understand.
The island’s education system is unusually reliant on the agency. The Biden administration made improving it a priority — now Puerto Ricans fear what comes next.
Latino-owned and immigrant-owned businesses have been targeted by ICE. Despite this, Mexican restaurants continue to foster community and culture.
In his new memoir, the NYC sneaker sage spins a tale of playground dreams, Puerto Rican pride, and the culture that shaped him.
A new book hilariously — and heartbreakingly — navigates the labyrinth of U.S. immigration.
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.
As U.S. funding vanishes, families and forensic teams face an agonizing question: Who will help find the missing now?
As Trump revokes sanctuary protections, El Paso’s bishop and allies mobilize — but funding cuts and arrests threaten their mission.
Funding cuts, raids, and Kafkaesque courtrooms leave thousands of children defenseless. Advocates say it’s by design.
Among the most vulnerable members of the workforce, a group of day laborers — many of them Latino immigrants — went out into the streets of Los Angeles as volunteers to help with cleanup efforts in the wake of the fires. Journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo joined them for a shift.
An immigrant small-business owner defies the odds after Hurricane Helene and inspires a new generation.
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.
As U.S. funding vanishes, families and forensic teams face an agonizing question: Who will help find the missing now?
The Mexican government has filed criminal charges against opponents of the Interoceanic Corridor. At least 61 people have open legal cases against them. “These are mechanisms of pressure,” argue activists and affected people.
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.
In a year marked by political attacks, the LGBTQ+ community transforms fear into struggle and uncertainty into hope.
En un año marcado por ataques políticos, la comunidad LGBTQ+ transforma el miedo en lucha y la incertidumbre en esperanza.
A Latina professor on the frontlines of a large college campus helps fight back against attacks on immigrant students and DEI.
Among the most vulnerable members of the workforce, a group of day laborers — many of them Latino immigrants — went out into the streets of Los Angeles as volunteers to help with cleanup efforts in the wake of the fires. Journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo joined them for a shift.
Young, urban and poor women in Puerto Rico are highly vulnerable to substance dependency and suffer most in the opioid crisis. Limited government data invisibilizes their experiences.
From Marches to Silence: How Trump’s Policies Are Rewriting — Through Fear — the Lives of Latino Students in Arizona.