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The Los Angeles Poverty Department is encouraging the public to help it celebrate local artists’ works during its 14th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists from noon to 4
Kelsey Pfendler, a rafting guide in Buena Vista, is part of women's team Hericane Rowing that's preparing for a grueling race in the World’s Toughest Row-Pacific next June, from California to Hawaii.
He spent his formative years as a worker in Tijuana’s maquiladoras, light-industry sweatshops that bloomed like poisonous mushrooms in the Mexican borderlands after the passage of NAFTA. This is perhaps why so much of Yépez’s critique of the Mexico City literary establishment focuses on money: who gets it, who doesn’t, and who decides who belongs in each category.
7 Resources on Translating Blackness, Race, and Racism Five years ago, John Keene published “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” a clarion call for more Afro-diasporic literature in English translation, noting the exclusion of Black writers from the already marginalized market of translated literature. Even greater than the dearth of Black literature in translation is the dearth of Black translators into English, not to mention the lack of writing about translating Blackness—evidenced by the fact that discussions of race and translation tend to reference Keene’s essay and not ...
immigrants waited in lines as long as a mile yesterday to apply to temporarily remain and work in the united states legally. >> these are young people who study in our schools, play in our neighborhoods, friends with our kids from a pledge allegiance to our flag. they are americans in their hearts and minds, and every single way but one -- on paper. >> arizona governor jan brewer has issued an executive order barring immigrants are granted a reprieve from receiving public benefits or getting a driver's license. we will speak with journalist roberto lovato the mexican poet javier sici...