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

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester   Andrea Amelse knows hand-washing. For the past eight years, she’s been washing her hands pretty much every time she passes a sink. When she’s near a bottle of an... Read more

By Linda Kramer Jenning   Voting rights advocates are battling on multiple fronts this presidential election year to fend off a proliferation of voter suppression maneuvers that largely... Read more

by Pilar Marrero   In the 2010 Census, 53% of Latinos chose the “white” option for the question about race and 43% chose “other races,” leading professor Manuel Pastor (Sociology and Am... Read more

By Chanel Ward   It didn’t take long for Colorado State Representative Leslie Herod (House District 8) to begin making headlines across the country, working on issues affecting Colorada... Read more

By Chanel Ward   Bernie Sanders rallied in Denver, Colorado on Sunday, just ahead of Super Tuesday and off of his victory in New Hampshire last week, bringing in over 11,000 attendees t... Read more

By Chanel Ward   Over a hundred eager participants gathered last Saturday afternoon to begin their door-to-door canvassing for Elizabeth Warren and to welcome Former Presidential Candid... Read more

By John Moore   Playwright Tony Meneses was intrigued when he came across a Pew Research Center study that predicted 2050 will be the year the U.S. population will no longer have a white maj... Read more