The confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson are drawing both ugly and inspiring memories for Latinos
Our community must retake its rightful place as the driving force behind what Latinx content prevails
comments (idare@womensmediacenter.com or #wmcIDARE) is creating a space for conversation about the impact of this iconic musical, adapted as a film in 1961. We begin with three leading Latina thinkers because the memory and experience of our community matter.
Hollywood would rather produce more “ethnic” stories and sell them back to us instead of facilitating reparative measures or narrative justice. Frances Negrón-Muntaner breaks it down.
From representation to façade: Grisel Acosta takes us through how West Side Story captivated, then angered her
Little space has been offered to the voices of the real Puerto Rican migrants West Side Story was attempting to characterize. Here, Blanca Vázquez talks about the effects of this decades-old production.
A kissing bug disproportionately affects Latin American immigrants. Author Daisy Hernández talks about the lack of urgency around diseases thought to be uncommon or eradicated in the United States.
If SB8 represents the loss of the ultimate choice over our bodies, it is the pinnacle of choices lost to Tejanas that went seemingly ignored or unconnected to reproductive rights.
Amid a state of emergency around femicide in Puerto Rico, journalists and activists are challenging the normalization of sexist news coverage
Republicans have truth-telling teachers in their crosshairs as part of a renewed campaign to whitewash U.S. history
Lola Velázquez-Aguilu answered the call to serve as a special prosecutor, while Zurizadai Balmakund-Santiago insisted on being a part of the team pursuing accountability for the murder of George Floyd
Jineth Bedoya Lima has been forced to investigate her own case and take it to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
A recent WMC-hosted panel on the legacy of U.S. violence is a deep resource for all those covering and writing about the southern border and immigration policy.
A new podcast series is pushing audiences to get to why the people of Puerto Rico are forced to grin and bear crisis after crisis.
Apologists for cultural poseurs make plain the cleavages festering in our movements because of anti-blackness, internalized colonization, machismo and elitism.
Racial and ethnic grifting is a settler-colonial tradition that’s as American as Dutch apple pie.
Will a new Netflix documentary on the history of rock in Latin America give rockeras their proper tribute?
As the United States struggles to reaffirm its raison d'être, can the prospect of transformative change in a re-invigorated South American body politic become a new beacon for democracy?
Reporters-turned-media leaders have taken the reins on creating mentorship programs, setting off national conversations and launching independent platforms.
Reporters spend a lot of time focusing on the Christian right but ignore the masses of us committed to a ministry of justice.
The Confederate soldier-turned-Union spy published her own story. The South buried it.
As some media moved to put a box around the Latino vote, activists, leaders and journalists pushed back.
As the United States creeps towards Gilead, the people of Chile voted to rewrite their constitution with the mandated participation of 50% women.
Activist Erika Andiola discusses how this response avoids fundamental change, and how a Biden/Harris administration can send the right message on immigration.