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Jorge Rivas is a journalist interested in highlighting untold stories through the lens of racial, sexual, and political identity. He is based in Los Angeles.
Just a few days before Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior Emma González launched into her now-iconic 11-minute gun control speech she learned about special interest groups, like the NRA.
A plainclothes federal officer walked into an Ohio gardening store early Tuesday and allegedly lured workers to gather themselves by offering free donuts. Splinter has obtained a video recording of a 17-year-old worker describing the incident. She said a man carrying three boxes of donuts entered the store and claimed he was there to conduct a health inspection.
An intimate look at the hoops young people had to jump through to file their Deferred Action applications ahead of the Trump administration's initial deadline.
This 6-month investigation uncovered some 75 transgender detainees are detained by immigration authorities every day. This story received a GLAAD Media Award and two National Association of Hispanic Journalists medals.
Los Angeles has been the host to gay pride parades since 1970, but in 2017, organizers canceled their annual parade.
Some of the most visible immigrant rights activists who identified as DREAMers and advocated for the DREAM Act now say the term may do more harm than good because the concept is rooted in exceptionalism.
There have been at least 13 cases since 2014 where students, teachers, and police officers who were licensed to carry forgot their guns in restrooms at K–12 schools and universities.
María Teresa Rivera is believed to be the first person in the world to be granted asylum for abortion persecution.
The most widely recognized celebrity photos taken in the last decade were taken by Latinx paparazzi—many of them immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Brazil. Some of them are undocumented.