Josefina fervently believes that to WRITE is how we become visible.

Tell your own story, be the protagonist of your life, otherwise, you will be invisible. Words matter, the pages you will write them in will take your pain away and elevate your presence!

Her Story and His story matter.

Josefina is an award winning playwright and screenwriter, independent film producer, and community theatre founder. Josefina has won several awards including a Gabriel García Márquez award from Mayor of Los Angeles in 2003. After having over 100 productions of her plays throughout the United States, Josefina López is one of today’s preeminent Chicana writers.

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The author of “Real Women Have Curves” grew up undocumented. Here is her story. 

APD, pepper spray, police brutality, police abuse

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[PBS adds editor’s note to address controversial tattoos of Trump-supporting North Carolina subject]

In an edited but in-their-own-voices-style report on a family of North Carolina Donald Trump supporters, the NewsHour aired an interview with one Grace Tilly. Tilly, a 33-year-old white woman who told producers that the Trump campaign has compelled her for the first time in her life to vote, is also a Trump campaign volunteer. (A video of the NewsHour segment in question can be found here. Click to view it.)

That, no matter one’s personal political views, is fundamentally important to process and understand. That’s arguably pretty darn interesting too. After all, white voters like Tilly have participated in presidential elections with steadily decreasing frequency since  2006.

What white-supremacist tattoos on PBS say about the media’s failures to cover racism – The Washington Post

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The 88 is shorthand for the 8th letter of the alphabet twice, HH, which represents Heil Hitler.

Agyemfra’s story has inspired many to boycott the restaurant and question why the young woman’s hair was scrutinized.

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“the chain’s policy dictates that waitresses wear their hair down”

Company makes a rule about hair (with no consideration for black hair), then they hire a Black person, then they fire them when their hair does not comply with the company hair rules.

To all companies and all schools >> Black hair is tall, not long.

If your company or school has a racist hair policy, change the racist hair policy.

Germany allows inmates to wear their own clothes, cook their own meals, and have romantic visits. Could that work in the United States?

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Click the article, scroll down and look at the rolling numbers and the graphic.

PBS Explains Why It Didn’t Acknowledge Trump Supporter’s Alleged White Supremacist Tattoos

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by Scot Nakagawa

Fighting the right – a core strategy of racial justice activism.

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Last night as I was watching the Democratic Town Hall hosted by CNN, a man named Ricky Jackson took the mic. Ricky said that he spent 39 years in prison, part of it on death row, for a murder he didn’t commit. He emotionally confronted Hillary Clinton about her position on the death penalty.

The tiny bit of his story caught my interest so I looked up information about his case. Here is Ricky’s story.

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by Xena

At the University of Miami, the 4 GOP front-runners for the race to president debated. When asked about supporters acting violently at his rallies, Donald Trump responded that people were angry with the current administration, they are patriots, yada, yada, yada. So why is it that they are taking out their anger on other citizens, mostly people who do not look like them?

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