Farmworkers need local and state governments to come to their aid in implementing policies recognizing the urgency of lethal heat while learning from one another as they pass laws where there are none...

From home-run celebrations to tilted caps, players embracing joy continue to collide with an old guard devoted to Dust Bowl grimness

The California attorney championed farmworkers and fought to outlaw the short-handled hoe, or "el cortito;" he died Saturday after a battle with cancer.

Chronic kidney disease was long thought to be an old person’s malady. Now it’s a multinational health crisis among young Latino migrants who once worked on Central American farms and sugar plantations...

A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list fo...

Immigrant farmworkers toil, season after season, in jobs that most Americans wouldn't endure for a week. It's a rough life that takes a heavy toll.

My dad’s passport is among his most valuable possessions, a document that not only establishes that he’s a U.S. citizen but holds the story of his life.

Removing ‘divisive’ Smithsonian exhibits, Farage’s ‘patriotic’ curriculum: this is where the unpicking of the 20th century liberal order begins, says academic Kojo Koram

'Alligator Alcatraz' is a rebrand of an age-old threat and a euphemism for cruelty wrapped in a bad joke.

Environmentalists warn new proposal from US wildlife agencies could lead to habitat destruction and extinction

Texas libraries and museums are bracing for cuts to services and programs after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to eliminate the IMLS.

The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, alleging the heat inside the state’s dozens of un-air conditioned prisons is ...

Last summer, the University of Illinois Press published A David Montgomery Reader: Essays on Capitalism and Worker Resistance, a collection of essays, some of them previously unpublished, by the late ...

La influencer y activista mexicana ha utilizado su plataforma para liderar múltiples marchas en el centro de Los Ángeles, y manifestar su descontento por los planes de las deportaciones masivas, ademá...

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.

On Inauguration Eve, a personal post about the importance of ritual and focus during times of political uncertainty.

Carlos Hernández Chávez's active involvement in the arts scene earned him the 2024 Distinguished Mexicans Recognition award from the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. “Somebody’s paying attention...

An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today   When Americans tur...

For anyone who has familiarized themselves with the fight for Civil Rights for farm workers throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the name Jim Harrington is one that is often repeated as a central force for...

Santa Clara County is full of hotspots with hundreds of racially discriminatory covenants in property deeds from the early 20th century. An effort is underway to identify and remove them.

For Japanese and Japanese Americans living in Vacaville prior to World War II, their lives changed almost overnight.

Christopher Karr reviews a show of three generations of Mexican-American artists on view at the Weil Gallery at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi.

We mapped daily streamflow from 1984 to 2018 in approximately 2.9 million rivers to assess recent changes to global river systems. We found that river outlets were dominated by significant decreases i...

The 18th and 19th century origins of the appeal to white victimhood.

Groups are urging the state’s estimated 1.6 million undocumented migrants to prepare financially and make plans for their loved ones if they’re detained.

She was among hundreds of women who said they were coerced into sterilization at a California hospital in the 1970s. The lawsuit led to state and national reforms.

The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

Remembering José Angel Hernández

Anti-immigrant sentiment among Latinos is not a new concept. Figures like civil rights attorney Gus Garcia and Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, believed that Mexican immigrants wer...

A comptroller’s report found that deporting the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants living in Texas in 2005 would have cost the state about $17.7 billion in gross domestic product.

The U.S. congressman from East Harlem promoted compassion in a district marked by ethnic, racial and class differences. It’s a story worth remembering in today’s divided America.

A possible migrant detention facility north of San Francisco has some lawmakers concerned.

Richard Reyes has delivered Christmas gifts to low-income children in Houston area for decades in his red zoot suit

In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump’s plan for mass deportations

A political controversy couched as a leadership fight roils the Texas State Historical Association.

A new release of an 1891 song by Louis Vasnier deepens what we know about the genre’s origins.

The LGBTQ+ community has been here before – and learned that real change happens when activists are front and center

In 1963, more than thirty Mexican guest workers died in a terrible accident in California. The fallout helped turn farmworkers’ rights into a national cause.

Two new wolf packs were confirmed by wildlife officials this month, and explosive population growth could be around the corner.