What does it mean to be Latinx and/or Hispanic? American media has largely characterized hispanic and Latinx people in a stereotyped way i.e. Sofia Vergara on Modern Family, therefore few of us outside these communities understand what these identity signifiers actually mean. In the latest episode of MTV’s Decoded (the greatest thing to come out of MTV, imho), host Franchesca Ramsey invites YouTube activist Kat Lazo to explain the difference between Hispanic and Latinx and h

https://youtu.be/tLLCHbCgJbM In this short documentary, Latinos grapple with defining their ethnic and racial identities. While talking with Latino people we find out the understanding of their personal identity as well as what they deal with in their every day lives. Last year we set out to make a series of short documentaries that we hoped would foster a discussion about race relations in the United States. To date the series has focused on the personal nuances of systemic

Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration. It begins at the turn of the 20th century, in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus. Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms and forced childhood conscription in the Czar’s army, the patriarch of the shack, Wolf-Leib Glosser, fled a village where his forebears had lived for centuries and took his chances in America. He set foot on Ellis Island on Janua

The team behind This Boy's Vida believe all people deserve safety, freedom and happiness --not just those born into a country where those things come a little easier. America has always been beacon of hope for those experiencing violence and poverty in their home countries, but recently we've been treating migrants worse than what they experienced before coming here. Thousands of migrants seeking asylum have been separated from their families, and a week after the court-order