By Brenda Álvarez Earlier this month, the National Education Association (NEA) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) partnered to host a virtual town hall to... Read more
By Daliah Singer Chris Morales has been a bus driver for the Regional Transportation District in Colorado for 16 years. The 50-year-old runs route 43 from the Metropolitan State Unive... Read more
by Pilar Marrero They have very low wages, few benefits, no health care coverage, and no sick days. About half are undocumented. Yet they are deemed “essential” workers who har... Read more
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon For 16 days, enduring spring snowstorms and sleeping in his car at times, the son kept a vigil in the parking lot outside his father’s Loveland hospital as t... Read more
by Pilar Marrero “A nightmare” is how Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), defines what the coronavirus pandemic has mean... Read more
By Anna Almendrala One day last week, on a sunny, beautiful Los Angeles afternoon, 23-year-old Alex Salvador Morales set up shop on a sidewalk near downtown, selling freshly cut pinea... Read more
By Joshua Kaplan When a woman who didn’t speak English arrived at the overrun emergency room of a Brooklyn hospital recently, she was initially placed in a unit for patients who didn’... Read more
By Amy Linn Indian Country in América has long been described, despairingly, as a “developing nation” — a place not unlike remote parts of Africa or Asia, where survival is a daily st... Read more
To Our El Semanario Readers: Beginning on March 26, 2020, The Weekly Issue/El Semanario will begin our first Digital Edition, featuring our full publication in digital form; and we wi... Read more
By LeRoy Chatfield “The growers have the money but . . . the farmworkers have the time,” said César Chávez. From 1962 to 1993, more than 2,200 people—all ages, all walks of life, and... Read more
