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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The American dream narrative posits that anyone who works hard can become successful in the US, whereas the systemic racism narrative argues that the US is a racist country where minorities are systemically held back. A survey-based study in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy has found that these narratives predict individuals' support for the…

Jorge Calderon Contributor Jorge Calderon is managing director at San Francisco–based Inicio Ventures, an initiative of Hispanics in Philanthropy. Over the last 25 years, I’ve been a tech investor, founder, organizer, strategist and academic. I’m proud to be part of a growing group of diverse leaders shaping an innovation system that represents and benefits us all. But in recent months, I’ve become increasingly troubled by the absence of Latinx/e founders and leaders in today’s…

Kali Uchis’s last outing, 2023’s dreamy, romantic Red Moon in Venus, earned the supple-voiced Colombian-American bouquets of praise. Orquídeas – her Spanish-language follow-up – was recorded alongside Red Moon and feels very much like the yang to Red Moon’s immersive yin.Upbeat, party-flavoured and featuring a hot, pan-Latin-American slew of collaborators, from fellow Colombian singer Karol G (Vevo’s most-watched artist of 2023) to Mexican artist Peso Pluma (YouTube’s most viewed artist of 2023), Uchis’s second…

Hi, folks, it’s Fidel. I’m out and I’ve asked columnist Suzy Exposito to take over the newsletter this week. I’ll be back next Thursday with some exciting news that will also explain my recent absence from the Latinx Files. Suzy, take it away!A question for our LGBTQ+ readers in the States: Does this Pride Month feel a little hard to rally around?If you’re feeling deflated by the onset of this year’s Pride, it’s not just you — it’s the whole damn country. In this year alone, the Movement Advancement Project has recorded…

Wednesday marked one year since an 18-year-old entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, with a legally purchased AR-15-style rifle and killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers. This horrific tragedy remains the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. What has changed since?The knee-jerk response would be to say that nothing has really changed. Though a modest, bipartisan federal gun control bill was passed in the wake of the mass shooting — a chief provision was the closure of the so-called boyfriend…

Hi folks, it’s Fidel. I’m off this week so I’ve asked Carlos De Loera to fill in for me! Carlos is a Reporting Fellow at the L.A. Times who has covered sports, entertainment and breaking news. I’ll be back next week! Carlos, take it away!Title 42 ended last Thursday. The decades-old measure invoked by former President Trump in 2020 allowed border officials to immediately expel asylum seekers and other migrants to Mexico under the guise of COVID-19 prevention.Republican politicians loudly speculated that the policy’s end…

Hi folks, it’s Fidel. I am out this week, but I’ve asked Alex Zaragoza to fill in for me this week. Zaragoza is a TV writer newly based in L.A. She was raised in San Diego and Tijuana and spent over a decade in media, most recently as the senior culture writer at Vice. She’s written for “Lopez vs. Lopez” and “Primo.”In December 2007, I went to New York City for the first time, and the only touristy activity I asked to do was the NBC tour. That’s mad dorky, I’m aware, but with two immigrant parents who worked full time,…

When the film “Blood In Blood Out” came out 30 years ago, it bombed at the box office.As director Taylor Hackford told The Times, that the movie came out on the heels of the L.A. riots — it was released nearly a year after the Rodney King verdict — spooked the higher-ups at Hollywood Pictures, a now defunct imprint operated by Disney. “ Eisner was really frightened that a violent crime drama might generate bad press for Disney. I wasn’t happy about it, but I did kind of understand it,” Hackford said. “Still, I was…

I can’t believe this still needs to be said, but please, for the love of whatever you consider holy, leave street vendors alone.Over the weekend I stumbled across a TikTok video uploaded by Edin Alex Enamorado, a self-proclaimed street food vendor activist, which began with an interaction between a woman selling fruit near the University of California Riverside campus and Gerry Bomotti, a high level administrator at the university. Though the brief interaction between the two is inaudible, it appears that Bomotti…

Editor’s note: Fidel is out this week, so columnist Suzy Exposito is filling in. Suzy, take it away!Does Bad Bunny ever tire of making history? The global pop phenom and Puerto Rico’s leading Master of Ceremonies will claim the main stage for himself Friday night as the first Latin music act ever to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.(The first Latino ever to headline, however? That title belongs to Zack de la Rocha from Rage Against the Machine, which headlined the inaugural fest in 1999.)This is not…