Sunday 10/25: Booksellers Lexi Beach and Nick Chase discuss independent bookstores. New York Society Library and The Astoria Bookshop via Zoom, 4 p.m. EDT, free. Monday 10/26: Matthew Thorburn and Sarah Kain Gutowski join the Monday Night poetry series. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free. Chris Stedman and Kristen Arnett discuss IRL:…

Ominous music plays as a copy machine spits out side-by-side photos of President Trump and former Republican Rep. David Valadao, who is running for the congressional seat he lost two years ago. In the advertisement from his challenger, Democratic Rep. T.J. Cox, a deep-voiced narrator calls Valadao a yes-man who…

Kristi Yamaguchi has been busy during the pandemic. The Olympic-figure-skater-turned-philanthropist has been adapting to Californias remote-learning mandate in both her nonprofit work and her personal life. Yamaguchis Always Dream Foundation has been working to help increase the time kids spend reading during the coronavirus pandemic. The group provides tablets stocked…

The knee on the neck of George Floyd aggravated an American psyche already frayed by the pandemic and stay-at-home orders. Protesters from diverse backgrounds marched in the streets across the nation demanding change. Channeling the growing public and private support for meaningful change into action requires Americans, in every sector,…

EXCLUSIVE:HBO Latino is teaming with the New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF), once again for the second annual national Latino Stand-Up Comedy Competition. The search for the best Latino stand-up comedians around the country was announced today by 2019 winners Mark Viera and Alex Carabaño via the video above —…

Deck:A prevailing narrative that Black and Brown people are not united does damage to us all.We must embrace difficult conversations while seekingjustice for everyone.   Surveying revolutionary history in 1939, Trinidadian intellectual C.L.R. James observed that the only place that Negroes did not revolt is in the pages of capitalist historians.…

As Latinx Heritage Month comes to an end, employers and leaders must reflect on how to facilitate professional growth for Latinx individuals, the second fastest growing ethnic minority community in the United States (see Pew Research Center, 2020) (note: Latinx is a gender inclusive term used to refer to self-identified…

LATV Networks is pleased to announce the promotion of Gisella Fu-Ripp to Vice President of Sales & Strategic Partnerships to lead the diverse, and predominantly female organization at LATV. Having joined LATV in 2012, Gisella’s elite track record in multimedia ad revenue has fueled LATV’s growth with clients looking to…

The Hollywood sign is seen at a distance as protesters hold placards during a demonstration over the … [+] death of George Floyd in Hollywood, California on June 2, 2020. – Anti-racism protests have put several US cities under curfew to suppress rioting, following the death of George Floyd in…

If you want to sway an election, sometimes you don’t need to convince people to vote for a specific candidate. Instead, you just need to convince those people to not vote for any candidate at all.This is the tactic Russian operatives used to great effect against Black and Latino voters…