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The features team does it again, this time with the 40 best California outdoor experiences ✨✨✨
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I am so honored to reveal the covers of the first #1619Project books: THE 1619 PROJECT: A NEW ORIGIN STORY, which dramatically expands the original project, & the children's picture book BORN ON THE WATER, both to publish by Nov. 16. Info at 1619books.com
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The future of El Salvador’s constitutional democracy, as well as U.S.-Salvador relations, are at a crisis point. Much is at stake for the people of both countries. See my statement: leahy.senate.gov/press/statemen
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A time when California is is optimistic that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, this school district made the difficult choice to stay closed. The losses among children, families and staff are still too raw, too recent.
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Biden's border closure cracks under pressure from lawsuits, advocates and the easing pandemic latimes.com/politics/story
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In May 1991, 800 Latino households received a letter that appeared to be from the Santa Monica school district, calling Mexicans "brown animals" and reading: "We'll gas you like Hitler gassed the Jews." My piece on what the hate crime presaged: latimes.com/opinion/story/
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What if Israel's killing of each Palestinian child in Gaza got the same level of attention and media outrage that the empty building housing the AP's offices got?
Maybe even entire articles and profiles of the families whose children were slaughtered?
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When I became a parent, there was so much pressure to put the kids to bed early like many North Americans do — 7/8 pm. My husband & I could never adapt. We’ve ended up raising two little night owls like us 🦉
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Sleeping over my mom’s tonight. She’s vacuuming at 11 pm 😂Reminds me of how as a kid, we never had a bedtime. We grew up living w/up to a dozen people under 1 roof. We went to bed when the adults were done cooking, cleaning, laughing, blasting Spanish TV. I miss those days ❤️
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Replying to
Nervous. My wife and I are fully vaxxed and comfortable going maskless when walking in our neighborhood. But we stay 20+ feet from other unmasked folks, and mask up if approaching any masked walker(s). How can we know who's vaxxed? And who's immune-compromised? Staying cautious.
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Also I'm not sure what businesses are supposed to do -- how can a store tell if someone is vaccinated or not? Are they just supposed to rely on good faith that unvaccinated people will wear masks? Or are they supposed to enforce mask-wearing and risk protests from anti-maskers?
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It makes me nervous even though the science is there. I'm going to be wearing masks until this has been going on for a good while and we see that it proves to be the right choice, and there isn't an increase in caseloads.
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At the US-Mexico border, our lives and households are intertwined with communities in Mexico that don't have access to the vaccine. What does the guidance mean for Chula Vista, Nogales, El Paso, McAllen, Laredo, etc? Our loved ones remain unprotected.
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Gulp. How you all feel about this?
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Asian Americans! On behalf of for #APAHM we want to know how you've dealt w/ microaggressions: strategies that work or don’t, what you wish did differently. Let's learn from each other.
will illustrate the most useful advice. Pls share!
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‘Microfarms’ come to South L.A. frontyards, bringing fresh produce to food deserts
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My latest: DACA recipients launch legal battle to clear hurdles from the ultimate goal: citizenship
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COVID’s stark inequity:
Latinas have suffered higher unemployment,13.4%, than any other California demographic including Latino men.
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California has a history of racist lynchings too. Ignoring that fact is mass delusion
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Billionaire biotech entrepreneur and owner of the Los Angeles Times is calling on the government to throw its support behind newspapers, saying the loss of advertising and declining readership threaten local journalism bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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I always have to buy an English card and a Spanish card to correlate with the days
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Me this morning:
“Happy Mother’s Day mom!”
Mom: “Is your mom American?”
Me: “No.”
Mom: “Then call me back tomorrow.”
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Same conversation I had with my mom today😂
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Me this morning:
“Happy Mother’s Day mom!”
Mom: “Is your mom American?”
Me: “No.”
Mom: “Then call me back tomorrow.”
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My mom just claims two days... she legit expects two rounds of gifts
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Me this morning:
“Happy Mother’s Day mom!”
Mom: “Is your mom American?”
Me: “No.”
Mom: “Then call me back tomorrow.”
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Me this morning:
“Happy Mother’s Day mom!”
Mom: “Is your mom American?”
Me: “No.”
Mom: “Then call me back tomorrow.”
😂🤦🏽♀️
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Latest story by member : Go inside Mexican star boxer Canelo Álvarez’s gym, where a champion is molded #SomosLAT
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My latest column👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Nayib Bukele’s creeping authoritarianism in #ElSalvador: There’s a direct line between the stability of a functioning democracy and the number of immigrants who show up at our borders. bostonglobe.com/2021/05/08/opi via #Bukele
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This is the story I was writing when the pandemic hit. I finally finished it 14 months later.
It became strangely personal.
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There is a treasure trove of stories from the men and women who have been to prison and are still in prison. Some extraordinary voices, brilliance behind bars that the country needs to hear from.
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We have a new section on the homepage: Latino Life, to feature Latino/a/x stories in one place
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Happy Cinco de Mayo. Day is marketed in the U.S. as a fun holiday for getting drunk and eating tacos. But its origins are linked to California Latinos who saw a battle in Mexico in 1862 as a victory for abolition during the Civil War
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“You are not going to see her anymore,” the immigration officer told Chavez. Then the officer turned to his mother Sandra Ortiz. “And you will go to prison.” Chavez went to an facility in California. His mother, who didn’t pass an initial asylum screening, was deported to Mexico.
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More than a thousand families remain separated, but the long ordeal for Chavez and his mom is finally over.
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