A year after all acting winners were white, there's a bit of hope—but no guarantee — that some Emmys will go to people from traditionally underrepresented communities.
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We carried out our mission not just in the long shadow of a 50-year-old history, but in the blazing daylight of a string of recent police killings of Black and Brown people all across the country.
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When COVID-19 began to spread, Spanish-language morning radio shows in the agricultural hub of Bakersfield were helping get essential info to the most essential of workers -- the people who pick our crops. Meet one of these radio hosts. -
The price tag on dental health care can be thousands of dollars. Even if you have decent insurance, a dental emergency can wipe out your whole savings account. And for many of us, the COVID-19 recession has already done that.
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One in three indigenous Meso-Americans living in Los Angeles has experienced coronavirus or knows someone close to them that has, according to a group that serves local indigenous communities.
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"I wonder if they ever imagined that they would be with us forever...as we try and will a true portrait of America into existence."
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In the middle of March, chefs and owners Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu of La Casita Mexicana shut the critically acclaimed Bell restaurant all the way down due to the pandemic. The future looked uncertain. Now there's a ray of hope.
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I felt so angry and helpless. I had a million thoughts running through me. Some were more violent than others. But the biggest, most important one was, 'What am I going to do about these kids?'
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How the late Mexican American writer's seminal novel "Bless Me, Ultima" changed the way I saw myself.
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Like concerns over COVID-19 and arguments about police brutality, the missing Latina U.S. soldier has sat with my family at breakfast, lunch and dinner. But not with most of America. Would it be different if she were white?
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When people from marginalized communities gain entry, can they actually change the institutions that have so much power over a system that seems to work against us? God, I hope so.
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"Sometimes I feel the weight of being judged as a person of color. Other times I feel awkward being seen as the only white guy in the room. It is through this murky fog that I have fought to carve out my own American identity."
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Mis Ángeles: For A Taquero Working In The Pacific Palisades, DACA Victory Means A Bigger Fight LoomsRudy Barrientos said even as he processed the win: "Right away, I was thinking there's probably gonna be more fight against us from the other side now,because you know that every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
