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2 months ago | 
inquirer.com | Luis F. Carrasco |Luís Carrasco |Helen Ubinas |Sabrina Vourvoulias
Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders last week included several related to immigration, including an attempt to limit birthright citizenship and declaring a national emergency at the southern border. The administration has also increased the number of mass arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with Philadelphia seeing the detention of seven people at a car wash on East Hunting Park Avenue on Tuesday. Luis F.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
centredaily.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias
President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have thrown a wrench into the bipartisan stopgap funding plan intended to keep government agencies and processes running through March 14. On Wednesday, the duo tanked the spending bill, which Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson had signed off on, which includes $100 billion in disaster relief for areas impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and another $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Luis F. Carrasco |Luís Carrasco |Helen Ubinas |Sabrina Vourvoulias
In the days since Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s election, it has become increasingly clear that Latino voters — and particularly Latino voters in Pennsylvania — played a crucial role in sending him back to the White House. Nationally, nearly half of all voters who identified as Latino — about 46% — cast ballots for Trump, up from about a third of Latino voters in 2020.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias
Mi gente, and I mean all of you — those who welcome with delight the plethora of headlines about Donald Trump’s gains with Latino voters, and those who despair when seeing them — we gotta talk. The positive side of all those headlines and stories: we Latinos are increasingly civically engaged, and the news organizations that too infrequently notice us at all are paying attention now. On the negative side of all those headlines and stories: underlying them is an annoying paternalism.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias
To be clear, as I write this column, the full list of speakers for the 2024 Democratic National Convention, which kicks off today, hasn’t been released yet. It is possible that Latinos will, in fact, be tapped to speak at high profile, headliner spots during the four-day convention, but I’m not holding my breath for significant representation. What’s past is prologue, after all: in 2016 the DNC had only one Latina headliner; in 2020 it had three Latina speakers. Don’t get me wrong.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias
En 2021, el que decía que el 38% de los latinos encuestados no habían leído un libro durante el último año. Pero eso no disuade a Edgar Ramírez, Leity Rodríguez o Andrea García, quienes juntos pretenden celebrar a los autores latinos locales y el amor por la lectura en la celebración del Día Mundial del Libro el martes en el Centro Cultural Mexicano de Filadelfia. No es la primera vez que los tres se asocian para resaltar los libros latinos y fomentar la lectura en Filadelfia.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias
Back in 2021, that said that 38% of the Latinos it surveyed had not read a book in the past year. But that doesn’t deter Edgar Ramírez, Leity Rodríguez, or Andrea García, who together intend to celebrate local Latino authors and the love of reading at Tuesday’s celebration of World Book Day at Philadelphia’s Mexican Cultural Center. It isn’t the first time the three have partnered to highlight Latino books and foster reading in Philadelphia.
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Dec 31, 2023 | 
inquirer.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias
There are many foods traditionally eaten on New Year’s Day because they are associated with good luck — black-eyed peas, collard greens, lentils, pork, and sauerkraut — but there’s one inextricably associated with freedom: Haiti’s soup joumou. “They made the soup but our ancestors were not allowed to drink the soup,” the Rev. Josephys Dafils, founder of Haitian American United for Change, wrote in an email. “On January 1, 1804, the freed Black men and women drank the soup joumou, proudly.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
msn.com | Sabrina Vourvoulias
My friend and I have been holding our breaths since Sunday. That day, Danelo Cavalcante – a man convicted of murder who escaped from Chester county prison on 31 August – drove a stolen van into our neighborhood, ditched it behind a church, and was reportedly hiding out here. Suddenly the pretty but unassuming Pennsylvania places we call home – Glenmoore, East Nantmeal, South Coventry – were teeming with law enforcement teams, helicopters and news crews.
