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During Hispanic Heritage Month, leaders in the trans community are working to lift up a part of the community they say has long been in the shadows. Data from UCLA show more than 174,000 transgender immigrants live in the U.S. 41,000 are in California, and of those, 38% are...
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BERKELEY, Calif. – Calvin Hedrick remembers wishing he could disappear during his fourth-grade history lesson after his teacher told the class that the ‘poor pioneers’ coming to California were slaughtered by Indians. That memory continues to animate Hedrick’s work to this day, ensuring Native and Indigenous people are seen...
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Decenas de miles de californianos tendrán que elegir un nuevo plan individual Medicare Advantage una vez que comience la inscripción abierta para Medicare el próximo jueves, 15 de octubre. Esto se debe a que varias compañías van a retirar sus planes para 2027. Sharp Healthcare, UnitedHealthcare, Humana y Aetna...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Food assistance to pay for groceries is still available to many low-income California families who receive summer food assistance for their kids. Nearly $106 million of the federally funded SUN Bucks benefits are still unspent — but eligible families have just a few weeks left to...
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Hay cifras económicas que parecen abstractas hasta que llegan al bolsillo. Una tasa hipotecaria de más de 7%, es una de ellas. La tasa promedio para una hipoteca fija a 30 años subió a 7.28% el 1 de octubre en los Estados Unidos, frente a 6.30% un año antes,...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador Silvana Estrada is a Mexican singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist that is bringing a soulful heart and diverse sounds to the world with genre bending style that has a basis in Latin folk and merges jazz, modern indie and Western classical components to create a unique tapestry...
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New York advocates want to limit plastic packaging for baby food. A Greenpeace report found around 11,000 microplastic particles in each Danone Happy Baby Organics pouch and an estimated 5,000 in a Nestle Gerber Organics pouch. Despite widespread support, the state’s Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act failed to...
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Desde épocas remotas las flores han sido consideradas como elementos curativos, con muchos poderes sanadores. También se les aprecia porque se cree que son precursoras de buenos sentimientos como por ejemplo: “el amor, la amistad, la empatía y el romance”. Actualmente las flores tradicionales, las exquisitas y las más...
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There’s a powerful scene in Moroccan-French-Israeli filmmaker Simone Bitton’s 2004 documentary Wall, which tells the story of the construction of the West Bank barrier, a 448-mile – or 721-kilometer – network of walls and fences dividing large parts of the West Bank from Israel. A concrete slab is slowly...