The journey north for migrants traveling through Mexico carries multiple risks—food insecurity, exposure to elements, assault, injury and more. Traveling with a caravan offers a measure of safety against some of these dangers. But for LGBT migrants making the 2,400-mile journey north, there are yet additional risks like discrimination and harassment from homophobic government officials, […]
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Overburdened, Tijuana’s shelters struggle to meet demands
Migration has always been a part of life in the border city of Tijuana. This remains more true today than ever, but its impact on the city manifests in much different ways than it used to. Tijuana used to be just a stopover town on a migrant’s journey to the United States. But since the […]
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Friendship Park, once a symbol of binational camaraderie now keeps families divided
On a Sunday morning in March, Braulio Mayer met his seven grandchildren for the first time, and was reunited with two of his grown children whom he had not seen in 10 years. Mayer desperately wanted to hold his grandkids, but the U.S.-Mexico border wall stood in the way. “Impotence, just impotence,” is how he […]
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Carnaval 2019 Photo Gallery
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Mother-daughter duo open Fruitvale restaurant with recipes honed on the streets of the Mission
For more than 15 years, Ofelia Barajas has sold her homemade tamales on the streets of the Mission District and in Oakland, and through her food, she has been able to establish relationships with the people in her neighborhoods. Now, she and her daughter, Reyna Maldonado, are in the process of opening La Guerrera’s Kitchen […]
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Remembering Gio Lopez: The forgotten seventh member of Los Siete
When looking back on the history and legacy of Los Siete De La Raza, the seven youth falsely accused of killing an SFPD officer, the focus is usually on the six who stood trial and their fight for justice. However, the uncaptured seventh, Gio Lopez, would go on to have his own story to tell […]
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A final word on the legacy of Los Siete de la Raza
Spanning 50 years of movement-building, arts and archiving, Vero Majano’s live cinema production, “Remember Los Siete,” is a creative testimony to the beautiful grassroots movement known as Los Siete de la Raza. The Mission-based queer Latina artist’s multidisciplinary production beautifully wove together live-narration, creative remixing of archival video footage and live onstage music from The […]
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Latino engineer society spearheads initiative to promote diversity in STEM
In the coming series, we will be talking to Latinos from the engineering, science, and technology worlds, telling their stories of how they or their family arrived to the United States, and their path into college, and professional engineering. The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) was founded by Rodrigo Garcia, a butcher’s son and […]
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Open Letter: Bryan Carmody case represents an attack on the 1st amendment
Dear District Attorney Gascon and Attorney General Becerra: The San Francisco Press Club, an organization of reporters, editors, producers, photographers and other news media professionals, strongly objects to the San Francisco police raid of the home and office of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody on May 10. Carmody, a freelancer who has sold stories to news […]
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United States of America: A “Gold Mountain,” or a “Golden Cage”?
Recently, I was away from the United States for a couple of long and wonderful months, with my wife Azucena. We travelled to Mexico and Chile. It was the tail end of summer in Chile and the beginning of spring in Mexico, so we benefited from constant sunshine, while the SF Bay Area was soaked […]