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Silvia Foster-Frau
@SilviaElenaFF
National multiculturalism reporter . Email: silvia.foster-frau@washpost.com. VP. Formerly . 🇵🇷🇺🇸
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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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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Tonight is the night 🙊
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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 ⁦@bethoniebutlerwashingtonpost.com/arts-entertain
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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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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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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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"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”- By
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News on the first day of Black History Month --
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College Board caves on AP African American history course nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/
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“By every available metric, voter fraud in America has been shown to be rare.” And yet:
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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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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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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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“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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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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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
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“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 et al
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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
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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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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. 📸/⁦
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"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
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