Alex Padilla made history last month as he became the first Latino Senator from the state of California, filling up the seat of now-Vice President Kamala Harris. The new Senator has hit the ground running. On Friday, he unveiled his…
Last month, the Biden administration announced a reunification task force to find and reunite the parents separated from their migrant children under the Trump administration’s 2018 zero-tolerance family separation policy. As of January 14, the whereabouts of 611 parents of…
When Jonathan Dromgoole moved to Washington DC to pursue his undergraduate education in 2012, he realized how the decisions made there reverberated all the way back to his family in Texas. As a first-generation, immigrant, Mexican, and gay American, he…
Few countries are as forward thinking and ambitious when it comes to environmentalism as Costa Rica. The small Central American nation is not only aiming for total decarbonization by 2050, but has done incredible work in re-growing large areas of…
2020 was a year of racial reckoning for America. The killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers presented us with the harsh reality of the role that systemic racism plays in our legal and…
To wrap up our celebration of Black History Month and the Afro-Latino identity, we take a look at the life of author and activist Piri Thomas. “I am ‘My Majesty Piri Thomas,’ with a high on anything like a stoned…
Misinformation targeting Latino communities became a powerful tool during the 2020 election. As falsehoods continue to spread regarding health information like the coronavirus vaccine, Latino groups are mobilizing to combat this dangerous messaging. Last month, we shared a letter signed…
At IQLatino, we have written about the need to reform our immigration terminology in order to rid our federal laws of the term “alien” to refer to foreigners in the United States. We applaud the Biden administration’s proposal to remove…