We should take inspiration from Jovita Idar. We should also recognize the brutality of white supremacy in the Southwest.
Tributes to Latina journalists should not glaze over the harsh truths about the racism and misogyny they faced.
A police officer ended the life of this 75-year-old great-grandmother. A district attorney has yet to present charges.
Daisy Auger-Domínguez is determined to show that organizations that treat Latinos as the flavor of the month will be left behind.
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.
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
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.
Racial and ethnic grifting is a settler-colonial tradition that’s as American as Dutch apple pie.
Apologists for cultural poseurs make plain the cleavages festering in our movements because of anti-blackness, internalized colonization, machismo and elitism.
The Confederate soldier-turned-Union spy published her own story. The South buried it.
If we continue to see ourselves outside of Blackness, we risk becoming the ball and chain of the anti racism movement.
The corporate sector has refused to be ahead of the curve in diversity even though we’ve been sounding the alarm all along.