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Silvia Foster-Frau
@SilviaElenaFF
National multiculturalism reporter
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. Email: silvia.foster-frau@washpost.com.
@NAHJDC
VP. Formerly
@expressnews
@hearstfellows
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Washington, DCwashingtonpost.com/people/silvia-…Born August 28Joined June 2009
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Really innovative Spanish language fact-checking program here designed to counter mis/disinfo in U.S. Latino communities⬇️ There's a newsletter thru WhatsApp that you can get via text or audio, and you can text Factchequeado content you're not sure is accurate and they verify it.
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📣 We’ve launched a WhatsApp newsletter in Spanish! Every Sunday, we’ll send you a selection of our top fact-checks and explainers so you have Factchequeado’s weekly highlights handy on your cell phone. Check out the thread below for a step-by-step guide of how to subscribe. 👇
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Vanessa Díaz
@vanessajdiaz
Bad Bunny’s Grammy performance tonight was an incredible exhibition of unapologetically (inclusive) Puerto Rican pride. Caribbean pride. Latine pride. Bomba. Plena. Black. Queer. PUERTO RICAN PRIDE. This is so much more than just “Latin flavor,” as so many are calling it 🇵🇷✊🏽💯❤️
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@SilviaElenaFF
Tonight is the night 🙊
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@SilviaElenaFF
For the first time in the 6-plus-decade history of the Grammy Awards, the ceremony’s most prestigious award —album of the year — could go to a project recorded entirely in Spanish: Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti.” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By ⁦@bethoniebutler⁩ washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain
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Silvia Foster-Frau
@SilviaElenaFF
For those in Austin still w/o power like my little bro - you may relate to our story from 2021: “The idea of self-reliance and self-determination and a kind of nation-state that can go its own way and handle its own affairs has run smack dab into reality"
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New Texas confronts the old with debates about mask mandates and winter storm response
As the Texas population continues to grow and diversify, many in the new generation are asking for more from state leaders.
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NPR Oye
@NPRoye
The rumors are true 👀 Stay tuned for upcoming details on how you can catch our very first live bilingual State of the Union broadcast with an all-Latino panel!
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Steve Inskeep
@NPRinskeep
In-house memo: @NPR plans two live broadcasts of Biden’s State of the Union—one in English and one bilingual broadcast, mainly in Spanish, hosted by gifted colleague @AMartinezLA with great bilingual correspondents in Washington and on both sides of the southern border.
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New: Tyre Nichols’s funeral is taking place in a church with a history of serving, protecting & elevating the Black community in Memphis. It was partly formed as a response to racial violence of the past that many activists say still lingers in policing.
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Tyre Nichols funeral live updates: Rev. Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy for Memphis man who died...
Tyre Nichols's funeral service will be at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church at 10:30 a.m. CST. He died three days after a brutal beating by Memphis cops.
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Silvia Foster-Frau
@SilviaElenaFF
"If you’re a working-class Latino in this state & you’re making maybe 20 bucks an hour.. and you have two kids, you’re barely making it. And then politicians run every year & say, ‘I’m going to change it’ and it doesn’t change”-
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Can Ruben Gallego’s Senate campaign energize Latino voters in Arizona?
For his 2024 Senate bid, Gallego wants to target the swath of Latino voters in the state who typically don’t participate and are disillusioned and distrustful of politicians.
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@SilviaElenaFF
News on the first day of Black History Month --
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Robert Maguire
@RobertMaguire_
College Board caves on AP African American history course nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/
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@SilviaElenaFF
“By every available metric, voter fraud in America has been shown to be rare.” And yet:
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Sean Sullivan
@WaPoSean
GOP report shows plan to ramp up focus on disproven election fraud claims. Exclusive reporting from @AmyEGardner @iarnsdorf: washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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@SilviaElenaFF
The current census “really kind of hampers our ability to talk about the continuing racialized discrimination that Latinos face in this country, because we’re sort of denied that ability to be able to articulate that in the data" said Dowling.
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The White population count could decrease under a new Biden proposal
The Biden administration has proposed changes to the census that advocates say would give Latinos and Middle Easterners or North Africans more visibility, but also potentially lower the White...
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NEW: The Biden admin is proposing to shake up the census form's race/ethnicity Qs to better account for Latinos, Middle Easterners and North Africans, many of whom find its current format confusing or inauthentic to their lived experience. Learn more here:
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The White population count could decrease under a new Biden proposal
The Biden administration has proposed changes to the census that advocates say would give Latinos and Middle Easterners or North Africans more visibility, but also potentially lower the White...
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Iris Pérez
@msirisperez
“This is what I fear: What’s going to happen in Memphis is what happened to Minneapolis — is that when Derek Chauvin and the other [three] officers were charged, the narrative turned from an issue of the police department to an individual issue…”
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Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S.
The race of the police officers charged in the Tyre Nichols killing has prompted a complex grappling about the pervasiveness of institutional racism in policing.
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Silvia Foster-Frau
@SilviaElenaFF
NEW: The Biden admin is proposing to shake up the census form's race/ethnicity Qs to better account for Latinos, Middle Easterners and North Africans, many of whom find its current format confusing or inauthentic to their lived experience. Learn more here:
washingtonpost.com
The White population count could decrease under a new Biden proposal
The Biden administration has proposed changes to the census that advocates say would give Latinos and Middle Easterners or North Africans more visibility, but also potentially lower the White...
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NEW: The race of the 5 Black officers charged in the killing of Tyre Nichols has spurred a national conversation on systemic racism in the U.S. -- and whether or not it can manifest in the actions of nonwhite people. With
@RobertKlemko
@ELaserDavies
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Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S.
The race of the police officers charged in the Tyre Nichols killing has prompted a complex grappling about the pervasiveness of institutional racism in policing.
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@SilviaElenaFF
“It’s more heartbreaking because the jobs [in agriculture] don’t pay well and don’t have health insurance,” she said. “When you learn the kids saw the shooting — those things can really hurt people for the rest of their lives.” By
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Alleged Half Moon Bay gunman targeted his own workplace, police say
Farmworkers in the bucolic area south of San Francisco were among the victims in Monday's attacks at two locations, law enforcement officials said.
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@SilviaElenaFF
New: After a pandemic era of increased attacks, punctuated by the mass shooting in Atlanta, as many Asian Americans were ready to mark a new, brighter chapter w/ the start of Lunar New Year, not one but two tragedies struck again. With
@DPAQreport
@mvenk82
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After California massacres, Asian Americans shoulder the grief
More mass killings, more collective grief — and this time, Asian Americans and immigrants are shouldering the bulk of the agony.
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@SilviaElenaFF
Two states still observe "King-Lee Day" instead of MLK Day -- commemorating both King, who gave his life to the cause of racial equality, and Confederate general Robert E. Lee, who fought in the Civil War to keep Black people enslaved.
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Two states still observe King-Lee Day, honoring Robert E. Lee with MLK
Alabama and Mississippi celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Martin Luther King Jr. on King-Lee Day. Until recently, other states did, too.
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Arelis R. Hernández
@arelisrhdz
Puerto Rico is aging faster than most places on Earth. But what’s unique about the demographic shift is the huge emigration of working age adults, leaving the elderly, seniors to face destructive climate disasters alone. 📸/⁦
@erikaprodriguez
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In graying Puerto Rico, the elderly face climate disasters alone
Puerto Rico is aging rapidly, driven by birth and mortality trends, but also emigration. Experts say the government is woefully unprepared for the challenges of having so many senior citizens.
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Silvia Foster-Frau
@SilviaElenaFF
"Biden had a few classified documents, and the White House says his lawyers turned them over as soon as they knew they existed. Trump had a lot of classified documents, and he defied the National Archives’ attempts to get them back." By
@caroIineanders
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Biden had classified documents. Is this different from Trump?
Classified documents are back in the headlines — and this time, they were held by President Biden, not Donald Trump. Let’s explore the similarities and differences here.
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