Irish Prayer

  Let us remember that we are in the holy presence of God May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft […]

The Truth About Mexican-Americans

The Truth About Mexican-Americans The New York Review of Books: Julia Preston December 3, 2015 Issue The tenor of the national debate over immigration changed from the first minutes of Donald Trump’s speech in New York City on June 16 […]

Historical Overview of Mexican Americans by Mario Compean

  Introduction Mexicans have lived in the Pacific Northwest since the 1850s. They continued to come to the region for mining and ranching opportunities through the latter half of the nineteenth century. In the first two decades of the twentieth […]

10 Myths About Immigration

10 Myths About Immigration Teaching Tolerance Magazine. Editor’s note: While originally published in 2011, this story was updated in 2015 to reflect current statistics, policies and conditions in the United States. Myths about immigration and immigrants are common. Here are […]

Hispanic & Latino Activists

Cesar Chavez Union leader and labor organizer Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to improving treatment, pay and working conditions for farm workers. Born near Yuma, Arizona, on March 31, 1927, Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the […]

Prayer to Jesus, the Immigrant

Let us remember That we are in the holy presence of God   Jesus,  as  an  infant  you  fled  to  Egypt  with  your  mother  Mary  and  Joseph. You  were  a  vulnerable  family  in  a  foreign  land,  looking  for  shelter  and […]

Prayer for Friends and Benefactors

Let us remember That we are in the holy presence of God O God, bountiful in forgiving, and lovingly desirous of man’s salvation, we humbly beseech Thy mercy in behalf of our friends, relations and benefactors, who have passed from […]

Prayers from the Stranger for the Stranger to the Stranger

Let us remember That we are in the holy presence of God O God, remind us that we are part of a whole, part of the land or our ancestry and your future, that we are both bordered people and […]

Prayer for Migrant Women

Let us remember That we are in the holy presence of God   O  God, Creator of the heavens and of earth,   Help  us  to  see  one  another  through  eyes  enlightened  by  understanding and  compassion. Help  us  to  listen […]

Loreta Janeta Velázquez

(June 26, 1842 – c.1902), was a Cuban-born woman who claimed that she masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. After her soldier husband’s accidental death, she enlisted in the Confederate States Army in 1861. She […]

Collected Prayers for Immigrants

Let us Remember That we are in the holy presence of God   Dear Jesus, Our journey through life is long and hard. We  cannot  make  this  trip  alone;  we  must  walk  together on  the  journey.  You promised to send […]

Hispanic Heritage Month Prayer

Let Us Remember That we are in the holy presence of God O God, you have made of one blood all the people of the earth, but you have also richly blessed us with a world of many languages, cultures […]

African – American Civil Right Timeline

   African – American Civil Right Timeline   1619 Photograph of newspaper advertisement from the 1780s The first African slaves arrive in Virginia.   _____________________________ 1746 Lucy Terry, an enslaved person in 1746, becomes the earliest known black American poet […]

Latino Civil Rights Timeline – 1903 to 2006

  1900s 1903 In Oxnard, Calif., more than 1,200 Mexican and Japanese farm workers organize the first farm worker union, the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association (JMLA). Later, it will be the first union to win a strike against the California agricultural […]

Stephen Colbert’s radical vulnerability

Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert interview with DeRay McKesson, Black Lives Matter Activist – January 18, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qffCO1b-7Js ____________________________________________________ Stephen Colbert’s radical vulnerability: Talking frankly about race could be a game-changer for his moderate white audience By Sonia Saraiya […]

Motown: How It All Began

Published on Jun 16, 2013 By 1959, Berry Gordy had become known for his songwriting talent, but he had his sights set on something even bigger: owning his own record company. Watch Berry describe how he turned $800 and a […]

Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson – Great Minds: Math and Science (5:05) In the early days of spaceflight, if NASA needed to plot a rocket’s path or confirm a computer’s calculations, they knew who to ask: Katherine Johnson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdr9QBRcPEk   Katherine Johnson – […]

African American Lives Series

African American Lives Series The Road Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8byrlp98Rs The Past is Another Country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWnSM7TxNE We Come from People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5oAUTPL9M A Way Out of No Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsvANqpGv8k  

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Dr. Cornel West – Black History Month – February 1, 2011

Published on Nov 21, 2015 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2/1/2011 Guests: Dr Cornel West, George Clinton Other: Craig celebrates the start of Black History Month with talking with Cornel West    

The Ruby Bridges Story

In 1960, a 6-year-old girl named Ruby Bridges became a powerful symbol of the Civil Rights Movement when she began attending the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. It was a turbulent time for race relations in the […]

Ten Famous African-American Politicians

    Barack Obama: President Barack Obama is obviously the most famous African-American politician. Before taking the top political job in 2009, Mr. Obama served in the Illinois senate starting in 1996 and as a US Senator from Illinois beginning in […]

Young American Black Activists

DeRay Mckesson is an American civil rights activist. He is a member of the Black Lives Matter Movement, which organizes protests that center on African-American people. Mckesson is known for his activism via social media outlets such as Twitter and […]

Dennis Chavez

The first Hispanic American to be elected to the United States Senate, Democrat Dennis Chavez had a long and distinguished career in government service, first as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and then as a senator from […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda is the Tony-winning composer-lyricist of Broadway’s In the Heights. In the Heights received four 2008 Tony with Lin-Manuel receiving a Tony Award for Best Score, as well as a nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Lin-Manuel’s […]