She was a pregnant teenager in Mexico. Later, she was told her background and her accent would limit her English-language journalism career. Today Liliana Soto has nine Emmys decorating her home, and scores of followers as an investigative video journalist in Arizona.
Discrimination was long baked into housing policy and practice in Evanston, Illinois. Now the city is the nation’s first to officially compensate African Americans for what systemic racism has done to their community
Read MoreMore Latinos throughout the Americas have adopted the muslim faith. In Chicago, during Ramadan, they’re celebrating lives of community service.
Read MoreSilvia Viñas supo que estaba en el lugar correcto cuando escuchó el primer episodio al aire del podcast que cofundó: El Hilo. Este podcast profundiza en el "cómo" y el "por qué" de las noticias de América Latina. La audiencia es de habla hispana, principalmente basada en las Américas, incluyendo los Estados Unidos. Este público está ansioso por conocer, semana a semana, un análisis de los acontecimientos que ocurren en sus comunidades.
Read MoreSilvia Viñas pulled a thread and co-founded an innovative podcast that dives deep into the “how” and “why” of news in Latin America. Today “El Hilo” resonates with Spanish-speaking audiences in the U.S. eager to understand what’s happening in their world
Read MoreComplicated histories of discriminatory policing, community distrust and cycles of violence can’t hide the simple truth that a young Latino died in a controversial shooting by Chicago police. Now a fed-up neighborhood wants answers
Read MoreKeith Dannemiller has called Mexico City home for 33 years. But since 2017, the U.S.-born photojournalist has aimed a bicultural lens at a growing Latino community in North Carolina. Ahead of a post-pandemic exposition, Dannemiller shares a series of portraits from his return to the U.S. South, and contemplates notions of “home”
Read MoreDespite working on a string of hit television shows, Gloria Calderón Kellett dreams of doing much more. The co-creator of the acclaimed remake of One Day At A Time is now behind an effort to support Latino creatives
Read MoreIn 2020, Puerto Rico had 1% of the U.S. population and 15% of the nation’s reported cases of violent deaths of transgender people. What’s behind the island’s crime wave?
Read MoreA veteran broadcaster scores with a hit new travel program on public television showcasing overlooked Afro Latino communities in the Americas
Read MoreA journalist waves aside the smoke to look back at her late father’s legacy -- and her own ironic addiction
Read MoreInterviews with dozens of Latino journalists across the U.S. yield stories of stubborn disrespect and discrimination in today’s newsrooms
Read MoreVisual storyteller Zaydee Sanchez found Ricardo on Los Angeles’ notorious Skid Row. She returned over the years and captured images of a soul that moves to its own unique beat
Read MoreIn the new documentary, Sky Blossom, journalist Richard Lui pays tribute to U.S. families caring for injured and disabled military veterans
Read MoreIn A Kids Play About Racism, a children’s book about bias becomes a nationwide theater production
Read MoreNextDayBetter becomes a stage for the marginalized
Read MoreHow “Vida” broke new ground for representation on screen
Read MoreDoubt clouds dreams of degrees for Latino students
Read MoreUna bitácora de consejos para periodistas en esta era de pandemia
Read MoreIsolation, stress and fear. In the new normal, these words no longer apply just to war correspondents.
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