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  • I.C.E. Took My Dad: 1st Day of Spring

    I answered. I couldn’t understand anything she was saying. She was frantically screaming and crying. The only thing I could make out was, “I.C.E took dad, I.C.E took dad!”

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #CHIRLA, #DefendDACA, #Deportations, #DetentionCenters, #DonaldTrump, #FOMDD, #FriendsOfMiamiDadeDetainees, #HoodDigest, #ICE, #IllegalSearches, #Immigration, #KromeDetentionCenter, #Saratoga, #StayWoke, #UnaccompaniedMinors | Comments

  • Civil Unrest

    April 29th: The people became fed up. The city went up in flames. Four days it didn’t let up. Tension grew thick. Awaiting the verdict. Four white officers. Acquitted of hatred.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #April, #CivilUnrest, #DarrylGates, #HoodDigest, #LACity, #LARiots, #RodneyKing, #StayWoke, #TomBradley | Comments

  • HOOD DIGEST + CURB: From Mass Incarceration to Mass Liberation Glossary

    Hood Digest is partnering with Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) to explore the topic of mass incarceration.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: ##Survivor, #3Strikes, #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackLoveBrownPrideSeries, #CaitlynJenner, #California, #Class, #CriminalJustice, #CURB, #Deportations, #DrugAddiction, #Education, #FBI, #FemalePrisoners, #GangDatabase, #GangMember, #GenderNonConforming, #HoodDigest, #HoodGlossary, #HumanCages, #ICE, #Immigration, #LACounty, #LaJaulaDeOro, #LAPD, #LaPinta, #LaverneCox, #LosTigresDelNorte, #MentalIllness, #Prison, #PublicSafety, #Race, #SchoolsNotPrisons, #StayWoke, #Trans, #USPrisons, #VotaVato, #VoteDona, #WelcomeHomeParty, #WhitePrivilege | Comments

  • Black Love, Brown Pride Stories: Eva Reyes

    Embracing my Blackness and my Central American culture is a crucial part of who I am as an Afro-Latina.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #BlackLoveBrownPrideSeries, #HoodDigest | Comments

  • Black Love, Brown Pride Stories: @OtherSideOfDaGame

    My parents never spoke [poorly] about Black people. But my aunt’s and uncles always had something negative to say.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #BlackLoveBrownPrideSeries, #HoodDigest, #Podcast | Comments

  • Things We Shouldn’t Have to Ask, But This is LAUSD!

    We’ve prepared our own list of questions that we recommend asking the candidates vying for LAUSD Superintendent.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #BoardOfEducation, #CaughtOncamera, #Charters, #CollegePrep, #Equity, #HoodDigest, #JobOpenings, #LAUSD, #LAVotes, #MakeItRain, #MichelleKing, #StayWoke, #StripperPoles, #StudentAbuse, #Superintendent, #TeacherJail, #WastefulSpending, #WillWorkForAnEducation | Comments

  • Black Beans, Pinto Beans

    This piece is about tensions between my Central American fam and our Mexican brothers and sisters.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #CentralAmerica, #CentroAmerica, #CHIRLA, #DACA, #DefendDACA, #Deportations, #FuckICE, #HoodDigest, #ICE, #MEChA, #Mexico, #SaveTPS, #StayWoke, #UnaccompaniedMinors, #Xenophobia | Comments

  • I Smoked Marijuana Once and You Won’t Believe How It Killed My Family

    Did you know that the war on cannabis or “Marijuana” was started – after the Mexican Revolution – by a racist gringo who was prejudiced towards Mexican immigrants?

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    Categories: Blog | Comments

  • Defend Guns. Control Emotions.

    600,000 people have been killed by guns in America since 1999: The year Dr. Dre released The Chronic 2001.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #APeoplesHistoryOfTheUnitedStates, #APoorPeoplesMovement, #AR15, #BattleForLosAngeles, #Chronic2001, #Columbine, #Dodgers, #DrDre, #GunControl, #GunViolence, #HoodDigest, #HowardZinn, #HowManyTamales, #LasVegas, #LatinosLoveFireCrackers, #MassShootings, #NewtonConnecticut, #NotAllWhitePeopleAreTheEnemy, #Populism, #PulseNightClub, #RaceAndClassUnity, #RageAgainstTheMachine #RATM, #SanBernardino, #SandyHook, #TheaterShooting, #ThoughtsAndPrayers | Comments

  • When Dr. King Was a Terrorist

    Did y’all watch Congressmember Karen Bass lay it down quite flat for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions?

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #AmericanIndianMovement, #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackPanthers, #ChicanoMovement, #COINTELPRO, #ColinKaepernick, #DonaldTrump, #FBI, #FredHampton, #HoodDigest, #IllegalSearches, #JayZ, #JeffSessions, #KarenBass, #MuhamadAli, #Puterias, #SNCC, #StayWoke, #Stingray, #VietnamWar, #VotaVato

  • Why are we still talking about Puerto Rico?

    Ask yourself the following: how the fuck are kids supposed to go to school with no electricity? How are doctors supposed to perform surgery when the only source of light is from cell phones?

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #Bacardi, #BigPun, #Boricua, #ChuckSchumer, #DonaldTrump, #HoodDigest, #HurricaneIrma, #HurricaneMaria, #HurricaneReliefEfforts, #Hurricanes, #JLo, #JonesAct1917, #JonesAct1920, #JonesLaw, #Liberation #Despacito, #MarcAnthony, #NoElectricity, #OscarDeLaHoya, #Pendejx, #PuertoRico, #PuertoRock, #Puterias, #StepChild, #USColony, #USCommonwealth, #USCongress | Comments

  • Good Immigrant. Bad Immigrant.

    Our communities deserve this: not because we are exceptional young achievers or “good” immigrants, but because we are humans, who want to survive, who want to work, and who want to live without fear.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #11Million, #BadImmigrant, #CHIRLA, #DACA, #DefendDACA, #Deportations, #DeporterInChief, #DonaldTrump, #FuckICE, #FuckTrump, #GoodImmigrant, #HereToStay, #HoodDigest, #Obama, #StayWoke | Comments

  • Due Process

    Get this straight, this is not about making excuses for someone’s fuck ups! Dr. Rodriguez’s missteps have consequences that affect so much more than his political career.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #District5, #Elections, #HoodDigest, #Inequity, #LACityElections, #LAUSD, #LAVotes, #MoneyLaundering, #Pendejx, #RefRodriguez, #SchoolBoard, #SchoolReform, #UTLA, #VotaVato, #VoteDona | Comments

  • A Portrait of Echo Park from an Angry Brown Girl

    Echo Park is experiencing gentrification, it has not been fully gentrified.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #AlexNieto, #AliceBags, #Bachata, #Banda, #BreInvestments, #ChicanoBatman, #ChulitaVinylClub, #CosaBuona, #Cumbia, #EchoPark, #EchoParkRising, #FlamingTaco, #Gentrification, #Gentrifier, #HoodDigest, #JusticeforAlexNieto, #LACity, #LindaNuves, #Salsa, #SonoraSantanera, #StayWoke, #WhitePrivilege, TheGoldRoom | Comments
  • The culture of bullying is learned from parents and institutions.

    The Unicorn & The Lagarto

    I grew up in the 90’s. An era when lagartos ruled the planet. Everything around us told us that being “gay” and being a “girl” was bad.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #Bullying, #HoodDigest, #Lagartos, #StayWoke, #Unicorns, #Xenophobia | Comments

  • Save DACA!

    President Trump on Friday announced that he plans to kill DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #CHIRLA, #DACA, #DefendDACA, #Deportations, #DonaldTrump, #FuckICE, #FuckTrump, #HoodDigest, #ICE, #Puterias, #StayWoke, #USPresidentialElections, #VotaVato, #VoteDona, #WhitePrivilege | Comments

  • When Black Addiction is Criminal & White Addiction is Suffering!

    To add chile y limón to our deliciously vicious recipe, we dwell into the world of drogas: opioids and heroin to be exact.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #Addiction, #BigPharma, #Clipse, #DonaldTrump, #DrugAddiction, #Heroin, #HoodDigest, #Malice, #MexicoBorder, #NoMalice, #OpioidEpidemic, #Opioids, #Pendejx, #PushaT, #StayWoke, #WarOnDrugs, #WhitePrivilege, ChuckECheeses, Treatment | Comments
  • Charlottesville VA is America

    The Racist Soup

    Race relations in America today can be compared to those hot summer days when your mom makes sopa de res.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #DonaldTrump, #HoodDigest, #Pendejx, #StayWoke, #TrumpIsNotAChild, #WhitePrivilege | Comments

  • Home Grown: A story about one of the most violent gangs in America 

    The founders of this group immigrated to the U.S. and formed bonds with other people – who were born in the U.S. – but shared similar ethnic roots.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #DonaldTrump, #HomeGrownGangs, #HoodDigest, #LaMaraSalvatrucha, #MS13, #StayWoke, #UnaccompaniedMinors | Comments

  • ICE Targets Children for Deportation

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced their latest operation known as “El Plan Sepasan Deverga”, “El Plan” for short.

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    Categories: Blog Tags: #CHIRLA, #Deportations, #DonaldTrump, #FuckICE, #FuckTrump, #HoodDigest, #ICE, #IllegalSearches, #Molotov, #StayWoke, #UnaccompaniedMinors | Comments
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