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Afro-Latinos on Obama's Win: Pride, Complexity, and Expectations

Barack Obama's election was a historic moment for Black America. For Afro-Latinos, who exist at the intersection of two often-invisible identities, the feelings were more layered.

Sofia Reyes - Aug 20, 2024

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Code-Switching is Not Confusion - It's Competence

Mixing Spanish and English is not a sign of ignorance. It is a cognitive skill that monolingual speakers cannot replicate, and a cultural inheritance worth defending.

Sofia Reyes - Mar 11, 2024

Classic cars on a street in Havana Cuba

Cuba Is Paradise on Earth, Says One Paper. Others Disagree.

When a Cuban state newspaper called the island paradise on earth, the responses from the diaspora were sharp, funny, and occasionally heartbreaking.

Sofia Reyes - Oct 5, 2023

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DREAM Act Students Occupy Senator McCain's Office

Five undocumented students sat down in John McCain's Tucson office and refused to leave - knowing deportation could follow.

Sofia Reyes - Jul 14, 2023

Latin music stars on stage at the ALAS benefit concert

ALAS Concert: When Latin Stars Sang for Latin America's Children

A stadium full of Latin music stars, one cause, and a reminder that the biggest names in the genre can still be moved by more than record sales.

Sofia Reyes - May 22, 2023

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Add This to Fujimori's Crimes: Mass Sterilizations

Peru's former dictator ran a government program that sterilized over 300,000 women - mostly indigenous, mostly poor, mostly without consent.

Sofia Reyes - Nov 10, 2022

Students learning Spanish in a classroom

Spanish: The Second Most Studied Language in the World

More people study Spanish as a foreign language than almost any other tongue - which raises the question of why Spanish speakers in the U.S. are still told to go back where they came from.

Sofia Reyes - Sep 12, 2022

Protesters marching against Arizona SB1070 immigration law

Arizona's Brewer Keeps Moving to the White

Arizona's SB1070 required police to check the immigration status of anyone they 'reasonably suspected' was undocumented. In Arizona, that means brown.

Sofia Reyes - Jun 27, 2022

Law enforcement inspecting a semi-submersible vessel used for drug trafficking

The Narco Submarine

A homemade submarine packed with cocaine changed how the world understood the scale of drug trafficking - and who gets blamed for it.

Sofia Reyes - Mar 15, 2022

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