Latino Los Angeles
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The Environment
Runit Dome, the Radioactive Dump
The Dome is a hemispherical structure at sea level, in the north of the island of Runit, with a thickness…
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The Environment
Pajaro, California: The Announced Flooding of a Latino City
The levees were built in 1949 and, as documented in a report by the Army Corps of Engineers, the walls…
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Reviews
Education is vital for California Latinos affected most by water crisis
The responsibility of keeping California’s food system functioning falls heaviest on the backs of Latino workers, who are most frequently…
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The Economy
Who Benefits from the Fall of China?
As the Berlin Wall fell and Russia imploded, dividing into dozens of countries, the Chinese Communist Party understood that, in…
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Front page
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The plot of the story of Gilgamesh is the fear of death and the search for meaning in life, a…
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Immigration
Anti-Immigrant Extremism is Anti-Democratic
In another week of contrasts, two issues—the New York Times story about child labor exploitation, and the criticism about President…
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Immigration
At the Border: About Migrants, Challenges and Dreams
They are fleeing economic misery, natural disasters, criminal gangs, police brutality, political persecution.
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Reviews
Recommended: For some Latinos, spiritual cleansing fills a mental health void
Grace Sesma does a limpia, a spiritual cleansing, with client Mario Ceballos during a curanderismo session at her home on…
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Reviews
Recommended: Latino teens are deputized as health educators to sway the unvaccinated
Classmates often stop Alma Gallegos as she makes her way down the bustling hallways of Theodore Roosevelt High School in…
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Reviews
Review: Some Latinos don’t trust Western mental health. That’s where curanderos come in
The man, 47, is talking fast—about the nice view of the area from Sesma’s backyard, his connection to the San…
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