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Nuestro Chicago Archives Uses Family Photos to Tell Untold Latino Stories

Mar 31, 2026

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7 min read

Nuestro Chicago Archives Uses Family Photos to Tell Untold Latino Stories

Residents bring personal photographs to be digitized, creating a growing collection of community memory and lived experience

Hector Cervantes

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Michelle Zacarias on Surviving Colorectal Cancer at 34

Mar 30, 2026

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6 min read

Michelle Zacarias on Surviving Colorectal Cancer at 34

A new “Living Proof” series tells her story

Julio Ricardo Varela

La independencia de Puerto Rico requiere reconfigurar nuestros cerebros

Mar 29, 2026

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9 min read

La independencia de Puerto Rico requiere reconfigurar nuestros cerebros

Reparar el daño colonial y la dependencia va más allá de la política

Lola Rosario

After ‘La Comisión Total,’ Something Smells Rotten in La Fortaleza

Mar 27, 2026

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11 min read

After ‘La Comisión Total,’ Something Smells Rotten in La Fortaleza

The curtain has been pulled back, but there are still questions

Susanne Ramírez de Arellano

Why Latino Expertise Matters, and Why Newsrooms Can’t Wait

Mar 26, 2026

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7 min read

Why Latino Expertise Matters, and Why Newsrooms Can’t Wait

The platform is the problem, not the expertise

Sindy Marisol Benavides

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PUERTO RICO

Mar 10, 2026

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8 min read

Whistleblower Sues Private Bus Company on Behalf of Puerto Rico Government

The claims for alleged fraud and improper charges could reach more than $100 million

Carlos Berríos Polanco

ICE Sub-Agency Accessed Puerto Rico Transportation Database, Court Records Show

Feb 25, 2026

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11 min read

ICE Sub-Agency Accessed Puerto Rico Transportation Database, Court Records Show

Previously unreported court filings reveal how HSI agents used database in cases that included immigration arrests

Carlos Berríos Polanco

Bad Bunny and Simón Bolívar, or a Cautionary Tale for Modern Times

Feb 17, 2026

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10 min read

Bad Bunny and Simón Bolívar, or a Cautionary Tale for Modern Times

Is Pan-Americanism merely a chimera or an attainable dream?

Susanne Ramírez de Arellano

Puerto Rico’s Independence Requires Rewiring Our Brains

Undoing colonial damage and dependency transcends politics

Lola Rosario

Mar 25, 2026

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11 min read

The East Wing Demolition Is an Architectural and Political Failure

What a ballroom no one asked for says about who this city belongs to

Yiselle Santos Rivera

Mar 24, 2026

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11 min read

Trump, Cuba, and the Return of the Offshore Exception

Guantánamo shows how legal precedent and infrastructure continue to shape U.S. power

Denise Zubizarreta

Mar 23, 2026

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11 min read

No More Pedestals

Season 2, Episode 13 of The Latino Newsletter podcast

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Mar 20, 2026

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5 min read

Raised by the Chicano Movement, Reckoning With Its Limits

A Chicana journalist confronts the Chávez allegations and the movement that shaped her

Serena Maria Daniels

Mar 19, 2026

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11 min read

What the César Chávez Revelations Mean for Our Community

After 60 years of silence, Dolores Huerta has spoken, and we are listening

Julio Ricardo Varela

Mar 18, 2026

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8 min read

Puerto Rican Kids Need to Learn About Their History

We need to fight against our history’s erasure

Adriana Erin Rivera

Mar 17, 2026

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9 min read

The Concentration Camps We Refuse to See

As a civil rights lawyer, I am afraid of what is happening before our very eyes

Mauro Morales

Mar 16, 2026

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11 min read

Corporate Sinners: One Battle After Another

Hollywood crowns its finest on Sunday, but the real story is the merger that could unmake it all

Guest Contributor

Mar 14, 2026

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10 min read

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Nuestro Chicago Archives Uses Family Photos to Tell Untold Latino Stories

Michelle Zacarias on Surviving Colorectal Cancer at 34

La independencia de Puerto Rico requiere reconfigurar nuestros cerebros

After ‘La Comisión Total,’ Something Smells Rotten in La Fortaleza

Why Latino Expertise Matters, and Why Newsrooms Can’t Wait