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Black and Latina Mothers Receiving Extra Income To Support Their Families

Black and Latina Mothers Receiving Extra Income To Support Their Families

Black and Latina mothers who lived in hardship before were hit the hardest with the pandemic. For many, issues just compounded, unable to make ends meet and having to simultaneously care for their families at home due to Covid-19. Both the pandemic’s economic and health effects have been

Missing Indigenous Women and Media's Missing White Woman Syndrome

Missing Indigenous Women and Media's Missing White Woman Syndrome

The disappearance of a fresh faced 22-year old aspiring ‘van life’ influencer Gabby Petito triggered a national outcry. Gabby Petito was also the quintessential all-American white woman. While there is nothing wrong with having empathy for the case of Gabby Petito, it questions the national news coverage prioritization

The Del Rio Crisis of Haitians At The Border Causing An Uproar

The Del Rio Crisis of Haitians At The Border Causing An Uproar

Your social media feeds are triggering – images of Black men, Haitian migrant-refugees #asylumseekers at the Del Rio, Texas/Mexico border being rounded up like cattle by Texas border guards wearing cowboy hats on horses shouting “Go Now” and charging against the Haitians at the border while whipping horse reins

Anti-Government Cuban Protests Break Out Over Universal Human Rights

Anti-Government Cuban Protests Break Out Over Universal Human Rights

Frustration has hit an all time high in Cuba over a government and 62-year regime that has not allowed Cubans to have a better life. Latin American countries have had similar mass protests break out On Sunday, July 11, 2021 Cubans left their homes for the streets to fight

Kamala Harris's Life Was Full of Firsts And Now Is The First Woman of Color in the Highest Ranking Office

Kamala Harris's Life Was Full of Firsts And Now Is The First Woman of Color in the Highest Ranking Office

Joe Biden, as a then pre-election Presidential candidate wanted a running mate – someone ‘strong’, qualified for the Vice President job and pledged the Vice President candidate will be a woman of color . For months, the anticipation of who will serve in the highest office along side the President, as

The Power of Latinx Voters: 10 Facts and Stats that Prove It

The Power of Latinx Voters: 10 Facts and Stats that Prove It

We sometimes forget our own strength, our own power. This is something that we deal with individually, but it is certainly true of all of us collectively, as a people. Latinxs number in the tens of millions in the United States, and with those numbers comes power and influence. We

Will Biden Choose A Woman of Color As A Vice President Running Mate?

Will Biden Choose A Woman of Color As A Vice President Running Mate?

The nation is less than 5 months away from voting for the next President in the 2020 national election held November 3. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat will run against President Donald Trump. The question has been for several months who would be Biden’s running

Military Women of Color Demand Justice After Murder of Vanessa Guillén

Military Women of Color Demand Justice After Murder of Vanessa Guillén

On April 22, 2020, a 20-year old Latina Army Specialist, Vanessa Guillén vanished from one of the largest Army installations, Fort Hood Army Base in Texas. The news of Vanessa Guillén went viral and had triggered many active-duty servicewomen and veterans of the military to voice their current

DACA College Students Won't Receive Support From Billions In COVID-19 Aid

DACA College Students Won't Receive Support From Billions In COVID-19 Aid

DACA college students are once again receiving the short end of the stick by being left out of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act which will issue COVID-19 emergency relief funds to colleges and universities and their students.  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of Trump’s administration delivered

Lawsuit Says Migrant Women Denied Human Right to Manage Their Menstrual Needs

Lawsuit Says Migrant Women Denied Human Right to Manage Their Menstrual Needs

Basic universal human rights of migrants have been on the line. A California led class-action lawsuit brought on by civil rights groups over the ‘questionable’ medical care and treatment of mostly ‘Northern Triangle’ or Central American migrants detained at the Mexico/U.S. border is bringing light and shock

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