By: Bianca Huntley Ortega
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. If that is true then Gerardo Meza’s paintings must be the windows into his surrealist Mexican American dream.
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What to Free People is Juneteenth?
By: Ms. J
Juneteenth in many ways became the activist’s response to Fredrick Douglass’ question on July 5, 1852, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” This holiday claps back: “Nothing. We have a day all our own.”
Caribbean American Heritage Month & Audiobook Month
Audiobook Month Abantu Audio is a digital storytelling platform representing BIPOC through its Audiobooks and Blog. We are dedicated to hiring Narrators of Color and highlighting POC perspectives through our site. Check Out Our Free…
Black History Month with Abantu Audio
This February, Abantu Audio has chosen select audiobooks to celebrate black history with unique stories from black authors. The history of Africans in the American continents is rich with cultural and contemporary significance. Clicking each…
BIPOC Thoughts on Insurrection
This year, we want to remember Martin Luther King Jr., the man who inspires Civil Rights activists to this day. Almost 60 years ago he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in our nation’s…
Banana Republic and U.S. Capitalism
By: Andres R GomezFeatured Art: @sangre_indigena_art American Imperialism Global capitalism has created a vast inequality in the concentration of wealth. In The Global Police State, Professor William I. Robinson relates the richest 1% of humanity…
Querencia in the Covid Classroom
By Mercedes V. Avila This semester, I began my first “official” year as a teacher of record. Though I’ve taught in organizing and community spaces, even traditional educational spaces as a co-teacher, teaching assistant, and…
Cancelling Columbus
Written By: Andres Gomez Columbus Day is a federal holiday in the United States and many countries in Latin America. Under pressure by historically aware citizens and descendants of indigenous peoples, many cities and states…
Crimes against Humanity – The Latino Experience at the U.S. Border
Last week, a nurse submitted a complaint in conjunction with several humanitarian organizations about the treatment of immigrants in an ICE detention facility in Georgia. Dawn Wooten is the nurse alleging the Irwin County Detention…
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department: More Gang than Public Servant
Updated November 21, 2020: There has been no disciplinary action for the officers involved. Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey refuses to prosecute criminal cops. Andres Guardado was an 18-year old Salvadoran boy who was…