• COVID disparities grow as California ends state of emergency

    As public health funding winds down, gaps in vaccination rates are increasing. Particularly for booster doses, the gap among racial and ethnic groups is widening significantly. When California recorded the first U.S. case of COVID-19 more than three years ago, the news was met with fear, confusion and public ire. Schools...
  • Despite Obstacles, LGBTQ Farmers Find Fertile Ground in Midwest

    Shannon and Eve Mingalone avow that their farmers market booth is “very gay.” They hang strings of pride flags and sell rainbow stickers to help pay for gender-affirming care, like hormone replacement therapy, for Eve. Sometimes, when parents and their teenagers pass the booth, the adults glance, then speed...
  • El Ayuntamiento de Seattle aprueba la primera ley en EE. UU. que prohíbe la discriminación por castas

    Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services Luego de 90 minutos de comentarios públicos de oradores apasionados de ambos lados del tema, el 21 de febrero, el Concejo Municipal de Seattle, Washington, hizo historia al aprobar la primera ley en la nación que prohíbe la discriminación por castas. La medida fue...
  • Teens Confront Epidemic of Dating Violence

    Peter White Ethnic Media Services Young people are coming of age without knowing how to create a loving relationship or what the warning signs are that maybe they’re not in a good one. So says Ana Campos, 17, who was blinded by “fake love” and thought everything was fine....
  • Project Uncovers Hidden Gems of Black History in Wyoming

    African Americans have played a foundational role in Wyoming since the 1860s, when they served as soldiers at Fort Laramie, and owned and operated some of Cheyenne’s first businesses, which are just some of the historic nuggets uncovered by the Black Wyoming Project funded by the National Park Service....
  • EarthTalk Q&A: Sea Turtles Population

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Swimming alongside a sea turtle in coastal waters is certainly a thrilling sensation, but the experience is becoming increasingly harder to come by. Declines in sea turtle populations around the world and in U.S. waters over recent decades is a sad reminder of...
  • Horóscopo de la Primavera

    Aries  El planeta Venus le otorgará felicidad a tu signo, viene para ti, una etapa de mucha suerte, cualquier dilema o dificultad que tengas, podrás resolverla con relativa facilidad. Existe a tu alrededor un ambiente de pasión y romance. Disfruta de la vida Números de la suerte: 6-12-14-19-24-31 Tauro...
  • Palo Alto, like California, shines as a land of promise but is haunted by its history

    Alejandro Lazo CalMatters Malcolm Harris grew up in the intellectual heart of Silicon Valley, where people are “educated, rich, healthy, innovative” and yet so haunted by the sins of history that the city of Palo Alto had the nation’s highest youth suicide rate for more than a decade. This is the...
  • Hablar de salud mental: cómo superar el estigma y romper el silencio

    La salud mental es uno de esos asuntos que muchos de nosotros preferimos callar o meter debajo de la alfombra. Pero la realidad no se puede maquillar: casi uno de cada cinco adultos en Estados Unidos vive con una enfermedad mental. Estamos hablando de 52.9 millones de abuelos, padres, hijos, vecinos...
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