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Arlene Dávila: A national museum for Latinos is long overdue (Librado Romero | The New York Times) Pepón Osorio was one of many Latinx artists who began their career exhibiting in museums like El Museo del Barrio. By Arlene Dávila | For The New York Times   | Dec. 26, 2020, 1:30 a.m. On Monday, Congress authorized the creation of a Latino museum as part of a $2.3-trillion year-end spending bill. This is long overdue. For decades, activists have been fighting to establish a Latino museum on the Washington Mall. Its creation is essential to documenting the community’s contr...

• Diversity and cultural awareness Getting started The Alliance membership will be capped at nine participating groups. On Dec. 10, the Alliance held its organizational meeting via online conference. The initial meeting dealt with organizational issues. The representatives from the participating organizations voted Martin Leibas, of Lorain, representing CHIP, as chairman. Ardelia (Dee) Tolbert, president of Elyria NAACP, was voted Alliance vice chairwoman. Leibas thanked everyone for their participation, and the commissioners for starting the Alliance. "I think it's well needed in thi...

A monument highlighting our contributions may finally become reality. By Arlene Dávila Ms. Dávila is the author of “Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics,” which explores the lack of visibility for Latinx art and artists at institutions. Dec. 22, 2020 Pepón Osorio was one of many Latinx artists who began their career exhibiting in museums like El Museo del Barrio.Credit...Librado Romero/The New York Times On Monday, Congress authorized the creation of a Latino museum as part of a $2.3-trillion year-end spending bill. This is long overdue. For decades, activists have been fighting ...

>> i'm a democrat and i'm not sure. look, the politics is simple. either you're for people or against people and if you are for them, you have to tell them that you are for them and why you're for them and they have to believe you. and this election, we can sit around and rehash what happened. a lot of americans didn't think that hillary clinton in certain areas was for them. and if that's the case, then they didn't vote for her and they did not do that. i had lunch -- i'll give you one example. i had lunch with a friend of mine, 45-year-old white progressive male and he -- clearly for hillary...

Up on the streets t. shows why the obama campaign feels like the latino support is going to be higher than ever. >> look at this rally in miami that romney had. he didn't mention any key issues, latino issues, nothing. i don't think there's anything there on the other side yet. >> this is the problem, there's been one part of party that rhetorically turns off a lot of -- >> the one thing i noticed about local coverage in d. krrk of this issue, it was pointed out that if mitt romney wins, this order could be rescinded, which it was code for saying, vote for obama. >> shameless plugs. fast. i'm ...