Francisco Cantú talks about working at the US border and what stays with him from the experience.

Disclaimer: Not ALL Brazilians do ALL of these. Nor are Brazilians the only ones who do them. These are based on differences noted by Anglos living in Brazil and by Brazilians living in the English-speaking world. I have never been to Brazil myself - yet. Culture: Put your old national identity to one side and…

Francisco Attorney General announced that the city will automatically apply California’s marijuana legalization laws retroactively.

An LAPD cop was caught on video assaulting a child and even firing off a round from his service weapon but he will face no charges.

Liberty Enlightening the World (1886- ), better known since 1924 as the Statue of Liberty, also called Lady Liberty, is a huge green statue of Libertas, a Roman goddess, that stands in New York harbour. With chains of slavery and tyranny broken at her feet, she holds up a torch lighting the way to liberty.…

#MLKalsoSaid (2015- ) is a hashtag on Twitter where people quote Martin Luther King, Jr to show that he said more than just that one thing that White people love to quote: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by…

In addition to putting dent in failed 'War on Drugs,' legalization could put hundreds of thousands of people to work and generate billions in revenue

What broke on Tuesday night. It’s a big development.

Some boys like mermaids. Some parents see it as no big deal, some see it as a "phase" they grow out of, while others are afraid it will make them gay. In my experience, a boy can like mermaids and - brace yourself - trucks at the same time. It is parents, or at least…

The Butterfly Story Collective is a network of local storytelling projects produced by immigrants and about the immigrant experience in the United States. This podcast features stories shared by participants in those local projects from all over the country.

Disclaimer: I am not a psychologist or anything like that. This post merely presents my present, imperfect understanding of the matter. If you are asking yourself, "Am I transgender?" you probably are. It is not the sort of question cisgender people ask. But "probably" is not proof. There is no test you can take. Or…

The lawsuit contends the administration's actions violate the Immigration and Nationality Act and are unconstitutional, and seeks an injunction to prevent further similar detentions.

Federal Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, whom candidate Donald Trump said could not be fair because of his connection to Mexico, cleared the way for Trump's border wall.

Several hate crimes have left students of color feeling unsafe, administrators said.

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We are broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, which has been surging with energy from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement. It was at Sundance two decades ago that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly assaulted actress Rose McGowan. McGowan told The New York Times in October that Weinstein offered her $1 million in a hush money payment if she signed a nondisclosure agreement to not come forward with her charges that he raped her in a hotel room during the 1997 festival. We speak with longtime women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred, who represents one of the women who have accused President Trump of sexual assault, and feature an excerpt from a new documentary on her life and path-breaking legal career, called “Seeing Allred.”

"I Am Not Your Negro" (2017), by Haitian film-maker Raoul Peck, sets the words of James Baldwin to images and videos of that "glittering republic", the US, in the 1960s and the 2010s. It is an excellent introduction to James Baldwin if you have never read him. And even if you have, there is probably…