Tomorrow, March 31st,  marks the seventeenth anniversary of Selena’s death. Selena was one of the first powerful role models that young Latinas and Chicanitas had growing up in the Gen-Y and Gen-X groups.  My sister and I would compete in Selena competitions, and my sister was amazing an amazing 8-year old impersonator of Selena.  I […]

via NYSYLC Support Rosario, Sara and Janet’s courage by donating to their bail fund! Rosario, Sara and Janet’s arrest shows what it means to be a leader, to stand up for your community and your dreams. As Sara states, “I’m getting arrested is to show the urgency that Undocumented Youth face every day when they […]

By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center The radical right grew explosively in 2011, the third such dramatic expansion in as many years. The growth was fueled by superheated fears generated by economic dislocation, a proliferation of demonizing conspiracy theories, the changing racial makeup of America, and the prospect of four […]

On March 7th of 1965, a 22-year old John Lewis and several nonviolent civil rights marchers were just beginning a march in Alabama, from Selma to Montgomery, in support of voting rights, when they were tragically beaten, trampled and tear-gassed by Alabama State troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. John Lewis stood for equality then, […]