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On Nov. 4, 2008, Mayra Flores walked into a polling station in Harlingen, Texas, and cast her vote for Barack Obama. That morning, Flores, who was born in northern Mexico and moved to the US when she was 6, had asked her father which party she should support. The answer…
(CNN)When Jorge Castro saw that Marvel’s Miles Morales would be walking around New York’s Spanish Harlem on the new Spider-Man video game, he quickly choked up. “Representation matters… it matters,” the 27-year-old YouTube gamer said, drying tears as he watched a gameplay trailer of “Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.” “It’s awesome…
NEW YORKElection-night parties are usually dreadful affairs, with the idiot box blaring and hysterical listeners screaming out the latest info. American TV pundits are smug trained seals with too much makeup and blow-dry, and they all sound the same with their rehearsed stentorian voices. Brian Williams, or the hero of…
Passengers make their way to the ride-hailing location at Los Angeles International Airport. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times) Six weeks before election day, Proposition 22 was in trouble. Just 39% of likely voters surveyed in a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll said they would side with Uber, Lyft, DoorDash…
The health and safety of incarcerated people in the United States are one front of the environmental justice movement, which recognizes that the structural inequalities built into society, particularly those based on race and socioeconomic status, are statistically connected to a persons access to a clean and healthy environment. Environmental justice affirms…
Latino voters arent often at the forefront when it comes to elections in Georgia, but with control of the U.S. Senate on the line, those hoping to turn out the growing electorate arent easing up. Which party ends up in the majority could come down to at least one runoff…
In this moment of great uncertainty, it’s time to be fearless. TEDWomen 2020, a day-long event hosted on TED’s virtual event platform, is all about fearlessness — in the way we think, act, participate — and how this collective mentality can empower us to take a global step forward, together.…
getty One of the silver linings of 2020 is an even greater push towards diversifying every aspect of our society, including highlighting black artists. When it comes to American museums in general, there is a tremendous racial inequity. A recent study done in 2019 showed that while minority artists are…
