The biggest fear Dreamers, recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), had when the new administration began was that its hard stance on illegal immigration would make them vulnerable to de...
People around the world watched in horror as Hurricanes Irma and Maria wreaked havoc in the Caribbean and decimated Puerto Rico. Now imagine this is your hometown and you hear from family and friends on the isl...
In 2013 Thomas Edward Perez made history when he was sworn in as the United States Secretary of Labor, the position made Perez the first Dominican-American man to hold the position. By all appearances many woul...
Anne Franke once said “Hunger is not a problem. It is an obscenity. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” While he may or may not know of the quote Jos...
“If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But by all means keep moving.” This quote from civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. is quite appropriate when descri...
One is a crooner, with the voice of a soothsayer, who before 2017 was already an established star in Latin America. Having recorded eight albums, selling millions more and nabbing a few Grammys along the way. T...
By Emmanuel Ureña
New York Congressman Adriano Espaillat is the American Dream personified. Despite a devastating loss by the Democrats across the board this past November, the Democrat from New York triumph...
By Victor A. Rodriguez
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, that "we must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to co-operate with that system, and hereby to become a participant in its evil."
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By Victor A. Rodriguez
How do you bring peace to a country which has been in the throes of a civil war for well over 50 years? Advertising!!! If your befuddled by the answer, don’t be. It’s certainly an out ...
By Jessica Rodriguez
For six decades, Alfonso “Ponchie” Gonzales considered himself a University of Southern California alumnus. Sure he’d skipped his graduation ceremony in 1953 because of work obligations,...