Latino
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How a city and church in Texas are rebuilding one year after Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey took a toll on all Houstonians—rich and poor, white and brown, city and suburb—but this boomtown proud of its diversity is getting back on track.
Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
Julio Ricardo Varela on being the only Latino (Rebel) in the room
This week, we talk with Julio Ricardo Varela, founder of Latino Rebels, a website founded in 2011 that provides news, analysis and commentary about U.S. Latino culture.
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 inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Birthright citizenship is essential to our ideal of equality before the law
Attempting to end birthright citizenship would be disastrous for a nation whose success has turned on its ability to incorporate immigrants.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Is there a sexual abuse reckoning coming for the Latino church?
“For Hispanics, whatever the priest says goes. But that’s not right. The priest is not God. Nobody is above God.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Dispatches
Why a janitor saved the rosaries confiscated at the Mexican border
Photographer Tom Kiefer took a job at U.S. Customs and was horrified to discover personal items in the trash. He decided to show them to the world.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
As Trump signs order stopping family separation, Catholic leaders speak out
It was a dramatic turnaround for Trump, who has been insisting, wrongly, that his administration had no choice but to separate families apprehended at the border because of federal law and a court decision.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
What one Catholic school in East L.A. is doing to serve its Latino students.
Latinos are severely underrepresented in Catholic education. But at Dolores Mission school in East Los Angeles, the story is different.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court sides with Trump admin. in undocumented teen’s abortion case
The case became moot after the teen obtained an abortion.