How white is our milk? How American is our cheese – in fact, who actually makes it? More and more of Wisconsin's farmer Johns are working with... Read More

The healthcare interpreter profession is being defined. Your input is critical! I am asking you to do two things today: (1) click on the link... Read More

To counter the many reports and images of desperate Haitians looting stores, I offer these first-hand reports:   From Amber Munger, working with KONPAY, in Port-au-Prince, Jan... Read More

“Art is not a frill,” is the message on my neighbors’ refrigerator.  No one proves this statement true more than Lily Yeh, an artist of... Read More

Via La Opinión, 16 December 2009. The immigration reform bill introduced yesterday in the House of Representatives by Illinois Congressman Luis Gutiérrez is co-sponsored by 87 other representatives... Read More

An immigrant is someone who willingly wants to change their situation in a new country.  You have to cope with a new language, culture, and community.  It is very exciting because compared to where they are coming from there is a lot of opportunity for education, work and advancement [in the U.S.] It is harder for some people to adapt than others. Read More

(Nicky Trasvina spoke at the November 11 Launch of a unique social media campaign designed by members of La Colectiva de Mujeres of La Raza... Read More

Juan Cuba, who teaches people how to use media to tell stories, talks about the need to be strong, media sterotypes, and his sense of belonging. Read More

16-year-old Javier Arellano didn’t know what he was in for when he auditioned for SALUD 2008, now a returning youth participant find out why, for... Read More

Hanna Do is an outreach worker at SEAMAAC, Inc. in Philadelphia. Hanna explains how her experience as a Vietnamese refugee continues to strengthen her and motivate her to do meaningful, community-based... Read More

1. If you are an immigrant, tell us what it means to be an immigrant in the United States. If you are not an immigrant,... Read More

Being an immigrant in the U.S means constantly engaging in the protection and promotion of one’s culture by building voluntarily and sometimes involuntarily a close-knit... Read More

Ming Lo is a producer for Chinese language television LA 18 in Los Angeles, California. Being an immigrant has mixed blessings in America. On the... Read More

Being an immigrant provides new opportunities, challenges, difficulties, which are all different depending on how you are prepared at an individual level. Those who are... Read More

First Published in the Latinos Progresando Email Bulletin. Immigration, gangs, family and school are some of the themes of Teatro Americano’s shows. Teatro Americano's latest... Read More

La Colectiva de Mujeres' new domestic worker health and safety campaign launched last week with a press conference in San Francisco's Mission District and a march to the site of a billboard featuring an advertisement from the campaign. With representatives from television, radio and online media in attendance, the campaign got off to a rousing start! Read More

1. Being an immigrant is an opportunity and we should take advantage of it. I think we can reach all our goals by giving it... Read More

1. Being an immigrant means that I feel important, just as anyone else would because I am capable of doing many things. For me, it... Read More

1. To be an immigrant in the United States means that people come from their native country to find work here in order to be... Read More

(Editor's note: Jill was recently appointed Lead Organizer of the NDWA and although she no longer works for LRCL, she was an integral part of... Read More

I came to the U.S. for college, after finishing high school in Lima, Peru, and have now lived here for 21 years. There was a... Read More

Heath Wickline works at Underground Advertising developing the social marketing campaign for the Domestic Worker's Project. Over the past ten years, I’ve worked with many... Read More

Last Wednesday, 50 people marched to the corner of Cesar Chavez and Valencia in San Francisco's Mission District to view the 50-foot-long billboard representing the... Read More

Latino USA  is NPR’s “weekly journal of news and culture. The only national, English language radio program from the Latino perspective.” And on this week’s... Read More

Dairy farmers face challenges hiring immigrant workers By Jacob Kushner Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism "Just 10 years ago, 5 percent of workers on Wisconsin dairy farms were immigrants... Read More