Rejecting the implications of the label “minority,” Carrie Gibson tells the entire 500-year history of Spanish-speaking peoples in what is now the United States.
Antonio De Loera-Brust
Antonio De Loera-Brust is a writer and labor activist from Yolo County, California. He currently works for the United Farm Workers and previously worked for the U.S. Department of State. He was a Father Joseph A. O’Hare S.J. Fellow at America magazine from 2017 to 2018 and graduated Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles’ School of Film and Television.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Why the U.S. going to the moon still matters to immigrants
If the frontier of the U.S.-Mexico border represents the America that would exclude me, space is the frontier that invites me.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How the Catholic Church is responding to Venezuela’s refugee crisis
Over one million Venezuelans have arrived in Colombia as of May 2018. Colombia is not a rich country, and helping to bear the burden of receiving thousands of Venezuelan refugees every day is the Catholic Church.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why you should keep reading the bleak news this Christmas
If Jesus was born today, where might we find him? I would say Tijuana would be a good place to start looking.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The ‘crisis’ of the migrant caravan is one of misperception
The real threat to the United States is not the unarmed migrants making a dangerous trek through Mexico, it is the fear and hate that sensationalized coverage of the caravan has fomented.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
New exhibit highlights the forgotten history of the Chicano resistance
On the 50th anniversary of many historic moments of the Chicano movement, a new photography exhibit at The Autry in Los Angeles is telling the Chicano story through the eyes of its participants.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Colombian farmers seek to plant peace in former coca fields
In the rural community of Las Palmas, a group of former coca farmers are replacing coca production with legitimate crops in the hope of promoting peace.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
What happens when a black hockey player boycotts the White House?
American sports and politics are lurching toward their next racially charged collision.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Separating immigrant families is a cruel means to a cruel end
Separating families will not stop drug traffickers or gang members. Its only purpose is to punish migrants seeking their own American dream.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Infographic: Revisiting R.F.K.’s poverty tour
Our measurements of poverty have changed since Robert F. Kennedy’s historic presidential campaign, but the poor and marginalized still need a champion.