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Features
Activists celebrate big win as California doles out $13 million to support transgender residents
LOS ANGELES – Bamby Salcedo has been at the forefront of activism and advocacy for the transgender, Latina and immigrant
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Gen Z redefines what it means to be Latinx on TikTok
EL PASO – TikTok has emerged as Gen Z’s go-to social media platform. Known widely by outsiders as that one
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Mothers in journalism advocate for more family-friendly newsrooms
Rebecca Ruiz waited until she received a job offer from Mashable to reveal to her new employer that she was
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Atletas LGBTQ+ redefinen sus experiencias dentro y fuera de sus deportes
TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico — Cuando Verónica Vega Bon decidió mostrarse quien realmente es, una atleta LGBTQ+, entendió que debía de
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His mother and grandmother died in the Surfside collapse. Now he wants answers.
On the night of June 23, Pablo Rodríguez called his mother, Elena Blasser, for one of their daily talks. Blasser,
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LaBoriVogue provee albergue a comunidades LGBTQ en Puerto Rico ante alza en violencia de género
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico — En los últimos años una ola de violencia machista ha cobrado la vida de varias mujeres
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Houston’s ‘Elote Man’ still struggling after accident and pandemic shutdown
HOUSTON — Emilio Vargas, known around Houston’s East End community as the “Elote Man,” earned his nickname step by step,
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Ni de aquí, ni de allá: Latino journalists navigate two cultures
HOUSTON — When Kimberly Cruz was a college freshman studying broadcast journalism, someone told her that her Spanish wasn’t good
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‘This is fun but weird:’ NAHJ takes the party virtual with Gran Baile and a much-anticipated Tejano party
SOMEWHERE, The Internet — Conversations weave in and out, layering over one another as NAHJ members — in the form
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Journalism’s diversity problem begins in university classrooms, where a lack of Latino professors sets many students up to fail
In classrooms where Latino students are the majority, some will go their entire college career without a single Latino journalism professor, according to a Latino Reporter analysis of student and faculty data from the California State University system.
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Room Rater: NABJ NAHJ Conference edition
We at the Latino Reporter have seen your kids, your dogs and random Zoom bombers crash sessions during the first-ever
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‘My community is still healing:’ El Paso natives reflect on media coverage of massacre one year later
Jazmine Ulloa traveled to El Paso a year ago to tell the story of the hate crime that devastated her
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‘Ees-ah-EE-ahs:’ Hurricane Isaias leaves tongue-twisted journalists in its wake
WASHINGTON, N.C. — As summertime comes around, so does hurricane season. That means a list of names that some may
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Las caras de los trabajadores de restaurantes en San Francisco sobreviviendo la pandemia de covid-19
To read this story in English, click here. SAN FRANCISCO — Una semana antes de que el brote de covid-19
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Latinos in the restaurant industry have been out of work for months. As the pandemic worsens, many wonder when things will stabilize.
Para leer esta historia en español, visite este enlace. SAN FRANCISCO — A week before the COVID-19 outbreak was classified
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Latinos struggle with mental health, seeking care as deadly coronavirus rips through their communities
Latino communities around the U.S. have been pummeled for months by the still-spreading coronavirus. They’ve fallen ill, lost jobs, buried people they love. Bills continue to roll in. The demands of daily life remain. The mental health toll, experts have said, is extreme. But for many Latinos, it’s not always clear where they can turn for help. Latinos face barriers to mental health care, according to the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), both in access and in quality of treatment.
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‘Not just a trending thing’: Afro-Latinos work to establish their place amid growing national interest in race, identity
In today’s news cycle, amid ongoing protests and demands for racial equality, media outlets are scrambling to feature Black perspectives. Afro-Latinos have struggled for years to get their stories heard.
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Mi gente: A who’s who of the 2019 NAHJ conference in San Antonio
Every year the NAHJ Latino Reporter features the people from around the convention. These are the 2019 Gente de NAHJ.
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