Guest Contributor

I had not thought of those days for a long time.

The need for answers is just as pressing as ever.

As someone who came here from Colombia so many years ago in search of a better life, it’s painful to watch members of my own community suffer so acutely.

Latinos can no longer be an afterthought.

Survey data show that Latinos are less likely than others to think about policing as a racial justice issue.

The phenomenon of Puerto Rican transnational political impact could be lost.

She was an influential pioneering architect of the Afro-Latinx Studies movement.

Dr. Marta Moreno Vega created the Creative Justice Initiative (CJI) a little over two years ago with the intention of building an intergenerational, inclusive platform to confront systemic inequality.

Many immigrants like me are terrified that at any moment we can be separated from our families, or sent to crowded, inhumane detention centers—more dangerous than ever in the face of COVD-19.

The pain and impact of this disease on our community is disproportionate to our share of the population.

In Pennsylvania, Puerto Ricans in particular are going to be mobilized by other Puerto Ricans, especially if they come from those same communities. It is baffling to us that the Biden campaign does not seem to get this point, even if campaign statements about the island still trickle out. So what is at stake?

If someone wanted to make us disappear, they’ve only made clear that we can no longer be invisible.

Although I did not experience these six raids myself, I am writing from the perspective of not only a student researcher, but as a daughter with a parent at an ICE facility amidst a global pandemic.

Now, during the most virulent outbreak in a century, we must do better to protect and support cleaning workers.

Border Patrol abuses have been widely documented for years.

The virus has managed to act out one of America’s most obsessively repeated storylines, in which the nation is invaded by a dangerous outside element.

She has demonstrated time and again an unshakable commitment to economic development, worker justice, and debt relief for the people of Puerto Rico—before it was fashionable.

Now with growing awareness —and anger— about the systemic inequities that cut far too many Black and Brown lives short, we have to make sure that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department harmful and brutal practices are not allowed to go unchecked

Los sistemas carcelarios viven dentro de nosotros.

Originally from Puerto Rico, Mr. Ramón Cruz has a long history of involvement within the environmental movement.

Carceral frameworks live inside of us. They aren’t discrete systems outside ourselves that we can dismantle without critically examining how they shape our ideas, strategies, and visions.