Is the new ‘Hispanic or Latino’ census category good enough?

Maria Hinojosa 🥑 from Latino USA joins Stephen Henderson on #CreatedEqual to discuss the new category, immigration and what it all could mean.

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.Maria Hinojosa 🥑 talks about how our investigation uncovers the serious health dangers faced by Latino disaster restoration workers from on-the-job toxin exposure. Produced by Futuro Investigates, Columbia Journalism, and The Center for Public Integrity.

Episode drops April 19 on Latino USA's feed 🎧

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🧵 You want to know why so many of us Border Patrol agents attempt and succeed at suicide? This one of the main reasons. The point of deterrence policies is to force migrants into the most dangerous places. When I arrived in Campo, CA in ‘95, we didn’t have a wall.

Friendly reminder that age is what you make it. Happy Monday! I leave later this week to be on the ground reporting in New Mexico so you know I’m happy!

Buenos días birders! Christina Greer

'Just last week it was reported that an illegal adlinthin-- and you just look at thisss, what's happening' -- Trump

Faith Ringgold, pioneering Black quilt artist and author, dies at 93 apnews.com/article/faith-…

Faith. Rest in glorious, elegant, goated power.

#NowPlaying a Latino USA podcast 🎧

In this rebroadcast, an intimate conversation between Maria Hinojosa 🥑 and Ida Bae Wells about feeling at home at Howard University, intersectionality, and more. We also visited Nikole’s 1619FreedomSchool in Iowa.

LINK ➡️ bit.ly/3xsxMYd

On this rebroadcast, the 1619 Project propelled Ida Bae Wells to instant recognition, earning her awards and acclaim, but it also sparked controversy. Tune in to Latino USA for Nikole's take on race, controversy, and more.

Produced by Reynaldo Leaños Jr..

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So this just happened! Murrow College WSU #germanperez on IG German Perez 🥰 #gocougs #vamoscougs

Many things wrong w/terrible Berliner column on NPR, including not observing basic fairness. Didn't seek comment from NPR before publishing. Didn't mention many things which could detract from his conclusions. Set up staffers of color as scapegoats: loom.ly/QPLdX1w

In the latest #StarsandStarsWithIsa , The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino discusses settling into domestic life while rejecting the idea that care should be reserved only for her small family, choosing to also invest in her wider community.

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Big happy birthday to Dolores Huerta!

Last year I was able to produce an interview between Dolores and Maria Hinojosa 🥑 for Latino USA

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Good thing people have short attention spans so lazy opEds written by people who have been in positions of editorial power for a quarter of a century blame people who haven’t had that kind of editorial power for what’s wrong (while pretending they’re pointing the finger at…

🧵More examples of Border Patrol trying to convince border residents they don’t target Latinos. BP spends millions on Latino schools & starts these programs in 1st grade. This fills our ranks w/POC. Few of these agents make it into management. #HonorFirst #HonorFirst IsALie

We have been sounding the alarm that these horrors have been happening in detention facilities. I’ve been doing this for well over a decade. We talked about the horrors. The torture. And things only got worse. Our lives are not seen as valuable. We are dispensable political 🏈

Joy. Peace. Nature. Her power over everything. All the time. #Eclipse2024

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