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In recent months, GOP members have employed “Latinx” as a wedge issue, with the idea it will drive more Latinos toward their side.

The language of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) now infuses the grantmaking of the majority of America’s largest private foundations. As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in organizations and programs shaped by the assumptions that underlie DEI. At the same time, because foundation dollars provide early-stage research and development for solving societal issues, whatever philanthropies are supporting today has the potential for widespread implementation in the...

Two bills awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature — or veto — would broaden protections for an estimated 300,000 foreign contract workers laboring in California on work visas.

Ninety-six years ago, J.W. Guiberson, a San Joaquin Valley cotton grower, explained a primary goal of the country's biggest agricultural interests. The class of labor we want, he said, is the kind we can send home when we get through with them.

Not even Biden’s own Labor Department believes that the administration’s proposal to bring in more seasonal farm labor will improve working conditions.

This statement is from the Dignity Campaign, which includes the following organizations: Community2Community Development, the California Institute for Rural Studies, the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition, the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, and Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales [Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations]. In November 2021 the U.S.

Cartoon via Conservative Daily News Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points earlier this week struck hard on a shocking and alarming truth. Socialist and Communist ideals are replacing the American tradition of self-reliance, freedom, and perseverance. He used the words socialism and communism to describe the purpose of Obamacare and the entitlement/welfare society which is growing exponentially in this country. People need to look at what is happening in our country and if they don’t start carin...

Biden Census Pick Santos Recalls Government Slush Fund for National Council of La Raza Inspired by a racist tract, rebranded nonprofit remains cozy with government Commentary Biden pick Robert Santos, a “Latinx statistician,” is being hailed as the nation’s first “census director of color.” If embattled Americans find that puzzling, they might take a look at the Biden pick’s actual record. The Texas-born Santos serves as vice president of the Urban Institute, where “his specialty ...

Mexican Americans Speak Up in Pollak Library’s Special Collection April 29, 2021 Share This: This illustration from the California Librarian, the January 1973 special issue on Chicano Library Service, is by Jorge Encisos Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico, Dover Publications, 1953. Daisy Gomez-Fuentes listened in awe to an audio-visual recording of Chicano activist Rudy Acuña speaking to a group of Cal State Fullerton students in May 1974. The lecture gave her insights into the Chicano ...

Print At a time when the economy remains in tatters, the coronavirus continues to kill, and Texas is colder than Stephen Miller’s heart, does Joe Biden really need to worry about what we call those who are in this country illegally? Oh yeah. So say adiós to any official mention of “assimilation,” and hola to “civic integration.” Time to replace “alien” with “noncitizen.” And “illegal alien,” the harsh-sounding couplet that conjures up images of intergalactic invasions?...