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…
How I Grew Fond of Teaching Poetry
By Jessica Helen Lopez,(Check out her class’s poetry project published here!) When I was in high school I hated poetry. I loved to read, but I hated poetry. I read anything and everything but poetry….
NACA Youth Poetry
The Native American Community Academy is a tuition-free public charter school in Albuquerque, New Mexico that proudly serves students from over 60 different tribes. With an emphasis on indigenous thought and fostering community values, NACA…
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…
An Ode to a Pandemic Saturn Return
By Mercedes V. Avila I’m exhausted, I say, as they wake me up from my midday nap Pressed between the ebbing tide of my dog’s rib cage and the coarse sunset fabric of our vintage…
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…