WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 19: U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos listens during a cabinet meeting … [+] in the East Room of the White House on May 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. Earlier in the day President Trump met with members of the Senate GOP. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty…

The Mandalorian and Josie and the Pussycats star Rosario Dawson has been voicing La Borinqueña, the afro-Latinx superhero created by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, in a number of animated shorts aimed at getting out the vote throughout 2020. With the Georgia runoff election set to determine the balance of power in the…

Joe Biden’s likely pick for education secretary helped create a mandated, statewide minority-studies course that “analyze[s] how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.” Miguel Cardona, the current Connecticut commissioner of education, played a key role in creating the curriculum for Connecticut’s required…

DNC will elect new chair at Jan. 21 virtual Winter Meeting WASHINGTON The Democratic National Committee will pick its new chair during its virtual Winter Meeting on Jan. 21, NBC News has learned, one day after President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated.  The party informed committee-members today of the date of…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill Vice President-elect Kamala Harris US Senate seat. California has never before had a Latino senator, despite the fact that nearly 40 percent of its residents are Latino and Padilla will change that. The son of Mexican…

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will replace Vice President-elect Kamala Karris in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday. Padilla, a son of Mexican immigrants, will be the first Latino senator for California, where Latinos represent nearly 40% of the state’s population. “Through his tenacity, integrity, smarts and…

We need as a state to really invest in robust outreach to these communities to ensure that they get the vaccine as soon as its available to them, said Eva Millona, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Coalition, who remains concerned that immigrants and other people of…

WASHINGTON Maryland RepublicanGov. Larry Hogan is appearing in a new ad campaign applauding the “bipartisan leadership” that led to Congress passing a Covid-relief deal over months of stalemate, NBC News has learned.  The new ad campaign is from No Labels, the moderate advocacy group that champions bipartisanship, which named Hogan its…

An immigrant family on the dock at Ellis Island, 1925. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty) At the beginning of the 20th century, one of the easiest ways to get marked for deportation at Ellis Island was flunking an eye exam. From 1903 to 1930, trachomaan eye disease caused by Chlamydia…

By YouTube Originals . . In partnership with YouTube Originals #BearWitnessTakeAction 2: Continuing The Movement. DeRay McKesson tackles the criminal justice system and focuses on three distinct ways in which to improve it – from police violence, to the felony theft threshold, to no-knock raids. Weve marched. Weve cried out…