A decent credit score, which dictates so much of what we are allowed to acquire in modern-day America, is hard for many people to achieve in this unequal country. But now, the US Department of Homeland Security wants to require immigrants to demonstrate they have one...
Seattle’s National Archives contain about 50,000 case files related to the Chinese Exclusion Act, which for decades barred most Chinese immigration. Volunteers working to index the files say they hold precious personal information and poignant broader lessons....
The former vice mayor of San Jose still remembers the night she and her family boarded a fishing boat to flee Vietnam in 1979. They spent the next week lost at sea. She remembers making it to the Central Valley of California and, as a child, getting up at 4 a.m. to...
Advocates for undocumented immigrants believe they’ve found a new — and legal — way to skirt deportation efforts. If Attorney General Jeff Sessions is waging war to dismantle sanctuary cities, imagine how he feels about “freedom cities.” By Adam...
Carlos Velazquez may be as close as anyone in San Jose to being an expert on the city’s historic murals. By Leonardo Castaneda So it’s natural that people would ask him where to find the public art representing the city’s Latino culture. There isn’t a good answer....
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