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One can only imagine the desperation of that mother who threw herself, with her two children, into the icy waters of the Rio Grande to cross into the United States. The three were Mexicans and they left their country, surely, in search of their American dream. Instead, all three...
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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services A medida que la humanidad se vuelve cada vez más urbana, el plantar árboles y crear parques -lejos de limitarse a embellecer las ciudades- se convierte cada vez más en una cuestión de vida o muerte. En una conferencia de prensa celebrada el viernes...
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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services As humankind grows increasingly urban, planting trees and parks — far from merely beautifying cities — increasingly becomes a matter of life and death. At a Friday, Dec. 1 Ethnic Media Services briefing, Los Angeles Forestry officials and urban greening experts discussed the city...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Más de dos años y medio después de que entrara en vigor una ley que exigía al personal de atención de maternidad completar un entrenamiento sobre el racismo en la formación médica, solo el 17% de los hospitales la cumplían, según una investigación publicada por el Departamento de...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters More than two and a half years after a law took effect requiring maternity care staff to complete racism in medicine training, only 17% of hospitals were in compliance, according to an investigation published by the state Department of Justice Friday. The training matters, Attorney General Rob Bonta...
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Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
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Hace poco, mi hija Ellie, de un año, celebró su doljabi, una tradición coreana que celebra el brillante futuro de un niño. Durante esta ceremonia tradicional de primer cumpleaños, los niños se colocan delante de muchos objetos especiales, cada uno de los cuales simboliza lo que su familia espera...
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Recently, my one-year-old Ellie celebrated her doljabi, a Korean tradition that celebrates a child’s bright future. During this traditional first birthday ceremony, children are placed in front of many special items, each symbolizing what their family hopes will be prosperous and healthy years to come. I’ll admit, as a...
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After making significant gains in recent years across California and the country, a movement to reimagine the role of prosecutors within the criminal justice system hit a snag Tuesday night with losses in key races around the state. The biggest setback came in a nationally-watched recall in San Francisco,...