Senator Alex Padilla is all of us

June 14th, 20250 By Pilar Marrero There are incidents that serve as perfect metaphors for a historical moment. The image of our first Latino U.S. senator, Alex Padilla, mistreated and pushed to the ground with his hands about to be handcuffed by a group of federal agents is one of them. It’s an image deeply familiar in the history of the United...

Civil rights leaders condemn militarized crackdown on LA protests: “This is not the America we know”

June 13th, 20250 By Sunita Sohrabji In a powerful show of solidarity, leading Black and Latino civil rights organizations held a joint press conference June 11 to denounce what they called “authoritarian overreach” by the Trump administration. Their remarks, delivered during a virtual press conference, expressed outrage over the deployment of...