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An orchard at Salton Sea with power pylons and mountains in the background.
Purépecha community members are on the frontlines of the Salton Sea environmental and health justice crisis — one of California's worst — but they're frequently unable to participate in policy discussions regarding lithium extraction, water quality, air pollution and more.
Several police vehicles parked behind a truck.
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At least 50 migrants were found dead Monday inside a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas in one of the deadliest tragedies in recent decades.
Protesters overtake the 101 freeway near downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.
In the personal essay below, Rubén Martínez, host of Excavating the Future, reflects on individual and collective experiences over the past two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID a global pandemic on March 11, 2020.
Plastic chairs are arranged in a room spaced apart. People sit in them and face the front where a woman is standing in front of a projector, speaking to the group. Behind the presenter is a colorful mural.
Espacio Migrante director and founder, Paulina Olvera Cáñez, shares five ways we can help support immigrant communities, whether we're at home or on location.
Lilian Meija and José Aguilar stand in front of a mural. The mural features a face painted in blue with strong, dark eyebrows, full lips and determined eyes. A band goes across the face's head with the words "Honduras" over it. To the left of the blue face is a multicolored guacamaya, or macaw. To the right of the blue face is half of a woman's face with large eyes, long eyelashes, full red lips and strong cheekbones.
Since migrating to Tijuana in 2011, Chef Lilian Mejía's restaurant Honduras 504 has become a touchstone and safe place for Tijuana's growing Honduran community — and has expanded the city's culinary offerings along the way.
A physician listens to a patient's heartbeat.
Many working undocumented immigrants won’t qualify for state health insurance even if they don’t earn a living wage. That leaves them with few viable options for coverage.
Mobile Clinic Delivers Vaccine to Central American Indigenous Residents in Los Angeles
Odilia Romero, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), talks about how traditions of mutual aid have helped Indigenous immigrant communities survive the pandemic.
Members of Immigration With Disabilities gathered at the Los Angeles State Historic Park in late July.
A class action lawsuit seeks better care for immigrants with physical disabilities or mental illness who were detained after trying to enter the country. Other disabled immigrants without legal status are also finding it difficult to get care.
Farm worker picking strawberries from low lying strawberry plants in Watsonville, California | David Gomez/Getty Images
Farmworkers in 2020 have been deemed essential workers. Yet, the chronic, disabling, deadly and depressing circumstances they endure are not part of the imagery that goes along with the problematic trope of essential workers as superheroes.
Pages of La Opinion newspaper | Still from "187"
Proposition 187 and its aftermath was a dizzying series of events that involved people from all sectors of society. We speak with educators and journalists who have studied the people and events involved. Through their lens, this pivotal time in the state
Rally against Prop 187 with American and Mexican flags waving | Still from "187"
The campaign against Proposition 187 was a call to action for many people from all walks of life. For those with years of legal training, it was signal to use their training to support the immigrant community. For students, it was an awakening.
Performance posters during the anti-187 campaign | Still from "187"
In such a controversial campaign as Proposition 187, art and politics inenvitably mix. During the 1990s a number of politicians (established and aspiring) helped shape the campaign, as artists on the ground informed the public and inspired them to act.
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