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3 weeks ago | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna
“What the Trump administration is trying to do to Mr. Khalil is a blueprint. And if they are able to get away with it, then they will replicate that blueprint,” said Ramzi Kassem, Professor of Law at the City University of New York. “Because that logic knows no limits.”On March 8th, Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was taken by immigration agents to a detention facility in Louisiana—without charges. He was taken because of his involvement in pro-Palestine protests on campus.
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1 month ago | 
latinousa.org | Fernanda Echavarri |Luis Eduardo Luna |Angela Kocherga
To say that the United States and Mexico have a complicated relationship is to put it lightly. There is so much that connects the two neighboring countries: rich history, cultural ties, economic partnerships. And so much that causes friction between the two: immigration, drug trafficking, human smuggling, illegal weapons, politics. Over the last 200 years so much has happened that we could spend many episodes of Latino USA just trying to get through the highlights.
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2 months ago | 
latinousa.org | Marina Peña |Luis Eduardo Luna
The Oscar-nominated film Emilia Pérez has sparked considerable controversy, both for its divisive storytelling and remarks made by its director and lead actress. Directed by Jacques Audiard, this film follows Emilia Pérez, a Mexican cartel leader who undergoes gender affirmation surgery and grapples with the challenges of societal expectations, power, and identity. The film combines elements of musicals, crime thrillers, and social commentary.
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2 months ago | 
latinousa.org | Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna
Last month, we launched a new series, Hombre: Understanding Latino Men, to dig deeper into the reasons that moved Latino men overall more right in the 2024 presidential election. We want to understand what this political shift really looks like for the everyday Latino male voter. What shaped Latino men’s vote on a personal level?
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2 months ago | 
latinousa.org | Marta Martinez |Marta Martínez |Luis Eduardo Luna
Reggeaton star Bad Bunny decided to celebrate the launch of his album “Un verano sin ti,” in an unexpected corner of New York City in May 2022. He went to a modest Puerto Rican bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, called the Caribbean Social Club. It’s decorated with LED Christmas lights, flowery tablecloths and walls full of family photos, baseball posters and framed newspaper clips. It creates a vibe that feels like someone’s grandmother’s living room.
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2 months ago | 
latinousa.org | Noam Hassenfeld |Luis Eduardo Luna
In 1939, a Mexican-American high school basketball team shocked the world. More than 25 years before Texas Western made history by winning the NCAA championship with the first all African-American starting lineup, an all Mexican-American team from Lanier High School won the San Antonio city championship. But this was no ordinary school. Lanier High School was the first vocational school in an urban center in the country.
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2 months ago | 
latinousa.org | Reynaldo Leanos Jr. |Luis Eduardo Luna |Marie Arana
“Latinos are not a monolith” is something that we hear almost every election cycle when politicians try to understand and court Latino voters. But arguably no one knows the nuances and realities of this community more than Peruvian-American journalist and author Marie Arana. She recently wrote “LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority,” which explores the complexities, histories and culture of Latinos in the United States.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
latinousa.org | Ariel Goodman |Inés Rénique |Tasha Sandoval |Luis Eduardo Luna
The time has come and Donald J. Trump is, once again, President of the United States. President Trump hit the ground running with sweeping promises to shut down the southern border, ramp up oil drilling and exports, and keep the definition of gender to two strict categories: male and female. Latino USA teams up with Futuro Media’s political podcast, In the Thick, to hear how folks are reacting to Trump’s inauguration speech and his day 1 executive orders.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
latinousa.org | Fernanda Echavarri |Nour Saudi |Luis Eduardo Luna
In the past two weeks, the Eaton and Palisades fires became two of the worst natural disasters in California history. Los Angeles has experienced an unprecedented level of destruction. As wind-driven wildfires raged across the county, entire neighborhoods have been destroyed, displacing thousands of people after losing their homes.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
latinousa.org | Victoria Estrada |Luis Eduardo Luna
As a Zapotec and Maya Ch’orti’ environmental scientist, Dr. Jessica Hernandez has never felt entirely comfortable in academia. When she started college, she looked forward to sharing what she had learned from her grandmother and father about nature, but her lived experiences and knowledge were dismissed and sometimes mocked by her professors.
