Getting Los Angeles’ Indigenous communities the help they need amid COVID-19
08/20/2020 - 13:13
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CIELO, founded by two grassroots organizers is aiding with everything from translation to unemployment funds.
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CIELO, founded by two grassroots organizers is aiding with everything from translation to unemployment funds.
Indigenous tribe in California faces off with a border wall that’s destroying their history
07/09/2020 - 15:23
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One tribe at the border between California and Mexico stood off with construction crews.
An indigenous tribe’s COVID-19 court victory in Ecuador comes too little, too late
07/09/2020 - 12:56
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The triumph by the Waorani indigenous community came 27 days after they filed a motion.
The indigenous herbalist who brought back ancestry to Chilean cuisine
06/08/2020 - 09:29
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Patricia Perez, the owner of La Atacameña, combed the desert for rare plants and sold them to the best chefs in Latin America.
Philadelphia’s BlackStar Film Festival Returns August 3-6
07/31/2017 - 10:39
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The 6th edition of this annual festival dedicated to black and independent film will bring to Philadelphia more than 60 films made by black producers.
Thousands of Venezuelans Call for Asylum Worldwide
07/21/2017 - 13:27
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The Venezuelan crisis is not a myth. Just take a look at the numbers of Venezuelans seeking asylum throughout the world to understand that it is easier to abandon everything than to succumb to the Bolivarian Revolution.
Mexico, Sweet Mexico
07/19/2017 - 03:11
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A wide variety of regional products make up Mexico's traditional confectionary, with the use of different fruits marking the state identity of each candy.
In Search of the Maya World: From Central America to Philadelphia
06/27/2017 - 14:26
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One of the most intriguing mysteries of Latin American culture is what happened to the Maya civilization. How come after over 3,000 years of history, from about 2, 500 BC to 950 AD, most of the glorious Maya centers in Mesoamerica were abandoned? Before the arrival of the Europeans in the 1500’s magnificent cities like Tikal in Guatemala and Copán in Honduras had all but disappeared; left uninhabited, they were covered by thick jungle growth, hidden throughout the mountains and the lowlands.
Ernesto Samper: Rightist populism demonizes migrants
06/20/2017 - 04:28
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Former Colombian President said Monday in Bolivia that rightist populist movements around the world demonize and criminalize migrants to gain favor with their voters.
[OP-ED]: The golden age of incivility
06/02/2017 - 08:29
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My fellow Americans, I have to ask: What happened to good manners? When did being civil go out of style? When did we decide that kindness equals weakness? When did the idea of conducting yourself well -- especially in public -- become quaint?
Electing a new president won't solve Mexico's problems, writer Diego Osorno says
05/26/2017 - 03:12
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The 36-year-old journalist made his remarks in the border city of Tijuana, where he presented the latest edition of his book "Oaxaca sitiada" (Besieged Oaxaca). He first wrote the work a decade ago to tell the story of a 2006 uprising in that impoverished, largely Indian-populated state against then-Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
Mexican Tarahumara woman wins 50km in sandals
05/25/2017 - 03:15
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The Tarahumara are famous for being excellent runners.
Juanes: "I feel like an artist from Medellin for the world"
05/11/2017 - 04:30
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With his seventh studio album - "Mis planes son amarte" (My plans are to love you) - which goes on sale Friday, Juanes is seeking to convert his fans from the idea of just listening to hit singles and sit down to experience an album from beginning to end.
Are Latino students worse at Math?
04/26/2017 - 05:53
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A new paper examines how race affects a student's Math education and the creation of racial advantages and disadvantages at school.
A Guatemalan indigenous land rights activist wins the Goldman Environmental Prize
04/25/2017 - 03:26
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Rodrigo Tot, born in central Guatemala during the mining boom of the 1960s, spent much of his 59 years in a tenacious battle against the mining industry in the Lake Izabal region.
Philly Grows Into Its Anarchist Shoe
03/29/2017 - 09:18
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Past a chalkboard that says, “Come inside to read a good book,” on one side and “Don’t be an asshole!” on the other, you come across a tattered SEPTA Union Strike poster from the early twentieth century, preserved underneath an equally withered-away lamination. A few cautious inches deep inside of this surreal time machine, a pillar manages to stand from the 1890s home of an anarchist feminist writer and speaker who lived near Drexel University.
From paradise to paradise lost, the odyssey of a Colombian Indian community
03/21/2017 - 04:25
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The thick jungles of the Colombian province of Choco on the Panamanian border was paradise to 117 Embera Indians until the violence of Colombia's armed conflict forced them to flee.