Women of the Dominican Republic have had enough. Last Sunday, thousands marched their hearts out in Santo Domingo to protest against the high rates of femicide that have plagued the female community in their country. ...
Latina Equal pay day is here, and it’s actually later than last year. The wage gap had continued to increase with Latinx women working into the 11 month of the year just to earn the ...
Chick-fil-A announced today that it will no longer be making donations to anti-LGBTQ organizations. Earlier this year, ThinkProgress issued a report that thoroughly detailed Chick-fil-A’s charitable giving. The company corroborated the findings when they released ...
In a victory for the people of Chile, the government will begin the process of rewriting the Constitution. This is a huge win for the people of Chile, who have been protesting for a month. ...
The growing decent in Chile has lead to violent protests and a mass call for President Sebastian Pinera’s resignation. Pinera has yet to take action on submitting his resignation. However, he announced that Chile would ...
From gun control to climate change, activists making an impact seem to be getting younger and younger. As DACA takes center stage in Washington, undocumented activist, Sara Mora, is on the front line. This week ...
President Evo Morales arrived in Mexico on Tuesday after accepting Mexico’s offer of political asylum. His resignation on Tuesday comes after months of political unrest unfolding in Bolivia after the October 20 election, in which ...
Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over whether Trump was justified in seeking to end one of Obama’s landmark executive orders. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was a program established in 2012 under ...
Earlier this week Julián Castro graced the soundstage of the Daily Show with Trevor Noah and delivered his best on-air interview yet. He announced that his campaign was financially healthy—having met their fundraising goals—and dug ...
The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has resigned. The decision comes after the president faced backlash over the highly disputed election of October 20th, 2019. The Organization of American States conducted an audit of the ...
Most photos of protests in Ecuador this October show smoke billowing behind face-offs between indigenous protestors and police. Yet, Ecuadorean photographer Isadora Romero aimed her lens towards portraits of the resistance. “It was important to ...
Canadian singer and songwriter Jessie Reyez has been making waves in the media with her new music video “Far Away.” The video features two lovers who are brutally separated by I.C.E. In this interview with ...
With the 2020 Election officially less than one year away, the undecided voters have been a recent topic of conversation. Three insider polls were orchestrated on September 25-26, October 3-4, and October 16-17. The results? ...
As of Tuesday’s elections, Regina Romero made history by becoming the first female and Latina mayor of Tuscon, Arizona. The historic win, which captured at least 53% of the votes, comes after her previously beating ...
There is a lower age limit for US Presidents, so why not an upper one? A candidate for President must be at least 35 years old. This rule has been around since 1789. The idea ...
Another fight has begun over making it easy for people to vote. Mobile polling places are often set up so people can vote early, and are often at or near college campuses. This makes it ...
The House of Representatives passed a resolution to to formalize the Trump impeachment inquiry yesterday. The vote breaks down to 232 yays and 196 nays. For the full breakdown, see below: All Democrats voted in ...
“Chiquita no me digas,” (Don’t call me little girl) Ofelia Fernández told a pundit during a heated televised debate in late 2017, demonstrating her strength and potential from the start of her young career. That ...
The presidential campaign of Julián Castro was getting low on cash, so about nine days ago it made a huge request to its supporters: help Julián raise $800K over the course of the next 10 ...
Earlier this week, administration officials granted thousands of Salvadorans Temporary Protected Status (TPS) extensions. With TPS, recipients are safe from deportation and have the right to work in the U.S. The New York Times estimates ...
The Taubman-Osuna debacle from last week has carried with it a dark cloud that now looms over all of Major League Baseball. The original incident occurred the night of Astros’ decisive win against the New ...
Center-left candidate Alberto Fernández defeated Argentine President Mauricio Macri in a close race on election night this past Sunday. It’s a relief to many Argentinians, who have highly contested against Macri’s financial plans with the ...
The last three years have been some the roughest years in the American history. Political discord has emerged over very simple humanitarian, civil and legal principles: the right for families to stay together, non-intervention in ...
If your dream was to travel to Cuba this year, do it now, because the clock is ticking. The Department of Transportation announced last Friday that flights and cruise ships traveling any Cuban city except ...
Some people think that you shouldn’t be able to vote if you have fees and fines to pay. F that! Florida recently voted that formerly incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote themselves, which is ...
Wilmer Valderrama is a successful actor having starred in notable projects such as That ’70s Show and From Dusk Til Dawn, but his journey to Hollywood wasn’t easy. Born to a Colombian mother and a ...
On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Mark Zuckerberg the questions on all of our minds. When she did not get straight answers, the congresswoman was quick to point out his subterfuge. The youngest woman to ...
What began in Chile last week and seemed like simply a protest against increased bus fares has exploded into a country-wide mobilization of dissent. The disruptive demonstrations have raged on despite the Chilean government rescinding ...
The New York Times wrote an article in August decoding Democratic presidential candidates’ personality types based on the song selections at their campaign rallies. It’s a thought-provoking and unique analysis that could give voters insight ...
For five decades, the Title X Family Planning program has helped millions of low-income Americans get access to low-cost birth control and other sexual health services across the country. Of those benefitting from the Title ...