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Did Trump Win Over Hispanic Voters, or Did Harris Repel Them? Both. Jul. 01, 2025
SAN DIEGO — It's been nearly eight months since the 2024 presidential election, and Americans ... Read More
What's Going On With Black and Hispanic Women? Dec. 11, 2024
One question emerging from the presidential election exit polls is the disconnect between Black men ... Read More
The Biden Administration's Struggles: Declining Support Among Minority Voters Dec. 14, 2023
The political landscape is changing in an unprecedented way: An increasing number of men of color, p... Read More
Dems' Rulebook: Offensive Speech for Me, but Not for Thee Jul. 13, 2022
First the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton, called patriotic, God-loving conse... Read More
Cultural Translations: An Effective Alternative to Flawed and Superficial Cross-Cultural Communications Feb. 12, 2022
If you read my columns with some regularity, you know that I often split them into two, three, even ... Read More
Time to Slay the 'Privilege' Dragon Jan. 27, 2022
It is time to vigorously go on the offensive against those who are selling the deeply deceitful ideo... Read More
Puerto Rico: The Holiday Island with the World's Longest Christmas Season, Part II Jan. 08, 2022
After nearly four centuries of colonial rule under Catholic Spain, in 1899 Puerto Rico became a U.S.... Read More
Puerto Rico Has the World's Longest Christmas Season, Part I Dec. 25, 2021
It is not entirely clear to me how they figure it out and with such precision, but polls and country... Read More
The Republican Party's Multiethnic, Working-Class Coalition Is Taking Shape Dec. 10, 2021
In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party's aggriev... Read More
Where Are the Hispanic Executives? Why Representation and Mentoring Matter Oct. 01, 2021
My husband, who is also Hispanic, has worked in manufacturing for over 25 years. He started in accou... Read More
The Shattered Mirror: Democracy and Despotism on Both Sides of the Florida Straits, 2021 (Part II) Jul. 24, 2021
Historically, the United States and Cuba have shared, as former President William McKinley once said... Read More
The Broken Mirror: Democracy and Despotism on Both Sides of the Florida Straits, 2021 (Part I) Jul. 17, 2021
I was not even born when Fidel and Raul Castro's rebel army defeated strongman Fulgencio Batista's f... Read More
What Truly Matters Is Each Other May. 07, 2021
Are white Americans being discriminated against? Some might be aghast at the idea that one might hav... Read More
What Truly Matters Is Each Other May. 06, 2021
Are white Americans being discriminated against? Some might be aghast at the idea that one might hav... Read More
Small-Business Struggles Feb. 10, 2021
Small-business owners are struggling to survive the pandemic and government-imposed lockdowns. But w... Read More
Hispanic? Latino? Latinx? What's Nextx?: Part II Feb. 06, 2021
None of the arguments espoused by those Colgate University students back in 1992 convinced me then, ... Read More
Hispanic? Latino? Latinx? What's Nextx?: Part I Jan. 30, 2021
Three decades ago, when the ethnic/race labels "African American" and "Latino" were gaining traction... Read More
Life in Los Angeles Dec. 26, 2020
Los Angeles is on the verge of becoming the world's biggest COVID hot spot in the world. "The epicen... Read More
A Second Opinion: The Democratic Party Needs a Battery of Tests and Biopsies to Figure Out Why Its Support among Latino Voters Slipped in 2020 Nov. 07, 2020
I am about to hit the send button of an email with this column. It is 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of ele... Read More
The Disunited States of Oppression Oct. 20, 2020
Is there any clearer sign of how privileged a society is than the disproportionate amount of time th... Read More
