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Telling the stories of im/migrants with nuance and complexity has been my life’s work — and it began with my own. Because of America’s broken immigration system, I was physically separated from my mother and sister for 31 years. After decades of waiting “in line,” my mom’s green

Deeply, profoundly disturbed ⬇️

For the first time since 1983, we are altogether, Mama, Lola, and me, celebrating Mother’s Day. Sending love to all the mothers and mother figures out there. And sending love to those who have had to mother and parent themselves. ❤️

Surviving as an immigrant depends on people welcoming us here. This is a country of welcomers — and we have to insist on staying a country of welcomers. Watch my family’s full story now at YouTube.com/DefineAmerican and subscribe for more stories about belonging, resilience, and

After 31 years apart, @defineamerican's Founder and President, Jose Antonio Vargas, is finally spending this #MothersDay with his Mama. 💛 We honor immigrant mothers whose love is an act of resistance. Help us build an America where families stay together. defineamerican.kindful.com

A Mother Took Her Sons to an ICE Check-In. She Never Saw Them Again. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Love this piece from Ben Brantley about what Audra McDonald is doing with “Rose’s Turn” in Gypsy — guarantee you’ve never seen anything quite like it. Can’t wait for round three at the Majestic in two weeks! nytimes.com/2025/05/13/the…

Trump’s ICE used a woman’s kids and grandchild as “bait” to arrest her during a chaotic scene last week in Worcester, Mass., which is now drawing attention from the state attorney general’s office rollingstone.com/politics/polit… rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Community Notes is the best thing that happened to Twitter.

On this day in 1961, a mob of 50 white men in Anniston, Alabama, attacked the Freedom Riders with pipes, chains, and bats. The Riders had taken a Greyhound bus to Anniston during a desegregation campaign. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Immigration agents break SUV window while detaining man after church on Mother's Day nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i…

Supreme Court Justices are not beholden to a President. Their allegiance is to the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. Amy Coney Barrett is doing her job.

The federal government sanctioned slavery. Jim Crow. Redlining. Predatory lending. Countless injustices that persist to this day. It’s long past time it paid the debt owed to Black America. Honored to reintroduce the Reparations Now Resolution after Rep. Bush passed the

Here’s another idea: can we produce a show on what and how U.S. citizens who were born in America are earning ^their^ citizenship?

Infinitely better.

Let’s do it. But let’s include US citizens like JD Vance and Stephen Miller. Who is more “deserving”? Americans who were born into citizenship, with citizenship as an entitlement and a privilege? Or immigrants like me who’ve had to fight to “earn” our citizenship? ⬇️

Having weddings at plantations is like having weddings at former concentration camps. If you don’t see it this way, it’s because you don’t see Black people as human.

This multimedia presentation of Ben Brantley's deep analysis of Audra McDonald's "Rose's Turn"--the single most shattering and affecting musical theater performance I've ever witnessed-–is worth my The New York Times subscription. @Gypsybway, directed by the legendary George C. Wolfe, is