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Statistics tell a moving story of desperation and impotence. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 15.6 percent of young Latinas in the U.S. tried to commit suicide one or more…
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Here, where the excessive use of force seems to have ceased being the exception to become the rule, things may have started to change, thanks to the citizenry's efforts.
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An old saying tells us that "there's no evil that lasts 100 years," even though the United States' perverse blockade of Cuba seems on the way to being the first such evil.
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Ai-jen Poo is a labor organizer whose compelling vision of the value of home-based care work is transforming the landscape of working conditions and labor standards for domestic or…
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To rescue from eternal oblivion the undocumented immigrants who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack against the World Trade Center was the difficult mission that Joel Magallán and the…
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Almost two weeks have elapsed and much has been said about the tragedy in Ferguson, Mo., a city with a 70-percent black population and a 53-member police department, 50 of whom are…
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The nation's temperature is rising rapidly as supporters and opponents of the immigrants await, with growing anxiety, President Obama's executive orders.
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It was obvious that the former guerrilla from the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, recently elected his country's president, was not at ease in Washington last week. He was…
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That was the horrified question that Al Sharpton, Afro-American civil rights activist and TV commentator, asked Sunday (July 20) at the Riverside Church in New York City.
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Naturally, McCain, a fervent believer in bombing first and asking questions later, could not keep from opining on how to "solve" the crisis of the Central American children who arrive…
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