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The new figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the advance of the COVID-19 epidemic should be a wake-up call at the national level about the health crisis that is currently hitting Latino, African American, and Native communities within the United States. Although we...
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Las nuevas cifras dadas a conocer por los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) sobre el avance de la epidemia del COVID-19 deben ser una llamada de alerta a nivel nacional sobre la crisis de salud que está golpeando en estos momentos a las comunidades latinas,...
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Two years before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, the African-American leader of the civil rights struggle, the Rev. Martin Luther King sent a telegram to the advocate for farmworker rights, Mexican-American César Chavez. “As brothers in the fight for equality, I extend my hand...
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Dos años antes de ser asesinado en Memphis, Tennessee el 4 de abril de 1968, el líder afroamericano de la lucha por los derechos civiles, el reverendo Martin Luther King envió un telegrama al defensor de los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas, el mexicano americano César Chávez. “Como hermanos en la lucha...
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Three people die every 24 hours in the United States at the hands of the police, according to data from a report made last year by the investigative site “Mapping Police Violence”. About 24% of the victims are African-American, despite being only 13% of the country’s population. It is...
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Tres personas mueren cada 24 horas en los Estados Unidos a manos de la policía, de acuerdo con un conteo realizado el año pasado por el sitio de investigación “Mapping Police Violence”. Alrededor del 24% de las víctimas son afroamericanos, a pesar de ser sólo el 13% de la población del país. Se...
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The seeds of the commemoration of what we now know as Memorial Day were sown after the United States’ Civil War. Entire families began to gather, in late spring, to bring flowers and souvenirs to the graves of their relatives, neighbors and friends killed in the bloodiest of the...
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Las semillas de la conmemoración de lo que hoy conocemos como Memorial Day fueron sembradas después de la Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos. Familias enteras empezaron a reunirse, al final de la primavera, para llevar flores y recuerdos a las tumbas de sus familiares, vecinos y amigos muertos en el...
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The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on millions of Californians. This is especially true among low-income families, including my patients at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. SK is a 25-year-old Latina mother of two who brought her children to the pediatric emergency room in early April. (To protect patient confidentiality, I am referring to my patients by their initials.) When I entered the exam room, SK’s anxiety was palpable. She...
The new figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the advance of the COVID-19 epidemic should be a wake-up call at the national level about the health crisis that is currently hitting Latino, African American, and Native communities within the United States. Although we...
Two years before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, the African-American leader of the civil rights struggle, the Rev. Martin Luther King sent a telegram to the advocate for farmworker rights, Mexican-American César Chavez. “As brothers in the fight for equality, I extend my hand...
Three people die every 24 hours in the United States at the hands of the police, according to data from a report made last year by the investigative site “Mapping Police Violence”. About 24% of the victims are African-American, despite being only 13% of the country’s population. It is...
The seeds of the commemoration of what we now know as Memorial Day were sown after the United States’ Civil War. Entire families began to gather, in late spring, to bring flowers and souvenirs to the graves of their relatives, neighbors and friends killed in the bloodiest of the...
The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on millions of Californians. This is especially true among low-income families, including my patients at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. SK is a 25-year-old Latina mother of two who brought her children to the pediatric emergency room in early April. (To protect patient confidentiality, I am referring to my patients by their initials.) When I entered the exam room, SK’s anxiety was palpable. She...