Could Hawkins be a place haunted not just by the Upside Down, but by the ghosts of our country’s racist past?
Antonio De Loera-Brust
Antonio De Loera-Brust is the communications director for the United Farm Workers. He previously served as special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He was an O’Hare fellow at America Media from 2017 to 2018.
Posted inFaith
A prayer for wildfire victims
Almighty God, who alone created the beauty and the bounty of our land, who cares and loves everyone, be with your people in California now in the midst of the fires.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic schools among casualties of California wildfires
Bishop Vasa called on all Catholics of the diocese to help their brothers and sisters who “have been severely impacted by the devastating fires and are in immediate need of your prayers.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Can we overcome racism? Ta-Nehisi Coates grapples with white backlash to the first black president
‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ is a sort of “I told you so,” though Coates takes little pleasure in having to say it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘The Florida Project’ is a rare perspective on American poverty
“The Florida Project” tells the story of a mother and daughter in the hidden world of extended-stay motels in the city of Kissimmee, Fla.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Mexico’s earthquakes are a chance for cross-border solidarity. How will we respond?
The earthquake feels like yet another crisis tearing at our transnational families. The earthquake was a natural disaster, but the many ways American society fails to value the lives of foreigners, of immigrants, of its own citizens, because of their skin color or their Latino heritage is a disaster of our own making.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pass a Dream Act, but don’t sacrifice the parents
The fight for the Dreamers is a fight for every immigrant.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Why don’t today’s farmworkers remember Dolores Huerta?
Huerta’s lack of recognition is certainly not due to a lack of proximity to power; she stood alongside giants of American history.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
Jesuit Universities defend DACA students
Students, faculty, and staff at Jesuit Universities around the country push back against the Trump administration’s plan to end DACA, a policy which could lead to the deportation of students at Jesuit Schools. Special Thanks to the Los Angeles Loyolan. Their coverage of the LMU demonstration here.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio is part of a long history of discrimination
The sheriff is the personification of law enforcement behaving lawlessly.