As a young boy, Frank Rojas watched his older sister shine at her quinceañera. He secretly longed for a celebration of his ...

Tennessee’s Supreme Court ruled the state’s mandatory life sentences for juveniles were unconstitutional. The state ...

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Jeanette Vizguerra, named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in 2017 for her immigrant rights activism, is now detained in a privately-run immigration facility in Colorado.

Sarah McClure is a Mexican-American journalist and filmmaker based in Pennsylvania. She’s currently a co-founding producer with reverie documentaries.

At the end of 2019, newsrooms across the United States were sent a book for review: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. The book has a white jacket cover featuring blue birds, reminiscent of traditional ...

On May 5, 1993, the first episode of Latino USA aired on more than 50 public radio stations across the country. Today, we are celebrating 30 Years of Latino USA with something we’ve never done before: ...

In this two-part investigation, we look into Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child welfare agency in the U.S., and what happens when the system that ...

Before 1970, the US Census Bureau classified Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants as whites. Each community of Latin American origin would go by their nationality and by the region where they ...

The thousands of Central American and Mexican children that have come to the US border in the past few years are not getting here on their own. Here are the 10 things you need to know about so-called ...

Artist and singer Kali Uchis was born in Virginia to Colombian immigrant parents. When she was four or five years old, her family moved back to Colombia. She spent several years living in a small town ...