Pinal County Jail, Florence, Arizona.

Earlier this year, Jacqueline Stevens, a visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the Berkeley Law School, UC Berkeley, wrote an article for The Nation about secret detention centers operated by…

Cleanup efforts continue in Chile and Haiti following the recent earthquakes in the two countries. And relief efforts are ongoing. Here are just some of the humanitarian organizations providing relief services.

Sam recently traveled to New York to participate in a panel about the DREAM ACT. The event was hosted by The College Board. Because of his undocumented status, Sam could not get on an airplane and had to be driven.…

The border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has a complicated history. (Flickr photo by inside disaster)

In 1804, Haiti declared its independence after a series of battles between French troops and slave armies. By 1809, some 10,000 former Saint-Domingue residents…

Casa Amiga, founded in 1999, was the first rape crisis center created in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez. (Photo courtesy of Casa Amiga.)

When Esther Chavez Cano first organized protests in 1993 in Ciudad Juarez, hers was the initiating voice against “femicide,” a term…

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Joseph Pacheco was the first Latino superintendent of schools in New York. Now he is an elderly, retired gentleman who lives in Sanibel Island, Florida. But as a native Nuyorican, he grew up bilingual. And one of his earliest childhood…

President Obama at the official service for the slain soldiers at Ft. Hoood, Texas. (Photo by The U.S. Military.)

In the wake of the shootings at Ft. Hood, Texas earlier this month, there has been considerable discussion about the alleged shooter’s…

New Routes to Community Health seeks to improve the health of immigrants through immigrant-created media. Eight immigrant-led collaborations across the United States have received three-year grants from New Routes to create locally-focused media and outreach campaigns that speak directly to immigrants’…

Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson

Mexican civil rights attorney Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson had the proper permits to cross the border and was doing so legally at the designated port of entry. But when asked by U.S. border officials why he…

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Jones Act, which granted American citizenship to the people of Puerto Rico. The territory had come under U.S. jurisdiction after the Spanish-American War of 1898. Between 1898 and 1917 any Puerto…