If you’re like me, you’re feeling exhausted. The climate in this country feels so tense – like it did walking the streets of South Central in the 90’s – and tastes like a trip to the dentist.  This is the most important election of our lifetime! Getting Donald Trump out of office is first our…

We discuss a social media flare-up between UTLA and Hood Digest. Our guest is LAUSD Board President Mónica García.

Our guest is Dr. Manuel Pastor who knows everything there is to know about California’s politics, race, demographics and social justice movements!

By @Katbaggins Nothing has brought me more joy than being able to witness more Central American stories and individuals be uplifted in the last couple of years especially Salvadoran and Salvadoran-Americans.  Some of my favorite Salvi’s doing the damn thing are: Felix Quintana, a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, educator and activist, Maggie Carranza creator of the…

Si usted es como yo, esta asta el pico de rabia. El clima político en este país se siente tan tenso – así como se sentía caminar por el Parque McArthur a eso de las 11 de la noche hace una decada – bueno todavia pero sin ofender. ¡Esta elección es la más importante de…

By @Katbaggins This next person does not need an introduction you know her as Diosa Femme from the popular podcast Locatora Radio! I met Diosa at a work event over a year ago that she was tabling. My first impression of her was how approachable and kind she was and I knew right then and…

By @Katbaggins I owe a lot of my success to my high school teachers who over time have become family. They always went above and beyond for my classmates and I. Senior year, they were answering my calls late at night helping me fill out my FAFSA application and reviewing my personal statements and recommending/presenting…

By @Katbaggins I am super intrigued by the idea of adopting a plant-based lifestyle someday. I would call myself an on and off again Vegan, I’ll do it for a month get bored and go back to eating animal products. But for the month I am vegan I feel great – energy is up and…

It’s Friday the 13th, and there is a Fullmoon! Growing up, I never really understood the association of this day with witches and evil. I wrote a compilation of various bodies knowledge I’ve picked up on my way. Mostly verbal and some written. So check it, I am about to drop some decolonial knowledge on yo ass.

Alright y’all. I wrote this blog to serve as a resource/guide for people looking to take a beautiful nature trip on a budget. I loved my journey along Highway 395, and I hope one day to see more black and brown faces in these white-dominated spaces.

https://audioboom.com/posts/7338783-episode-9-immigration-ni-de-aqui-ni-de-aya

What we will do is tell you to take your ass to the polls and vote for Measure EE.

The issue of colorism and anti-Blackness in the Latinx community is often dismissed or ignored.

#HoodDigest knows it’s hard enough to get you to vote for the President and all the other chingaderas on the ballot that you are familiar with…. We also know that when it comes to local elections, especially judges, you skip these altogether, or you just pick the Brownest…

Hood Digest put out a call and our community showed up big time. A huge thank you to CARECEN, Patria Coffee and all of you who responded. Thanks to your generous support, we raised $4,900 for families affected by the volcano.

We continue our conversation on the importance of public education. Our guest is Dr. Pedro Noguera who speaks on the importance of investing in public education, holding elected officials and other leaders accountable and the teachers strike.

Here is your #VotaVato cheat sheet for the U.S. Midterm Elections taking place on November 6, 2018.

Prepárense mucha. Su guía de votante#VoteDoña por fin ha regresado con la potencia de las prediciones Mayas del 2012.

Al-muthafuckin- right. The Vota Vato voter guide is back with the vengeance of the 2012 Mayan prediction. And if you thought my ancestors were bullshittin’ when they said the world was coming to an end – you must not be watching the apocalypse unfold before our very eyes.

Public education is incredibly important for our communities – it’s also incredibly controversial. We kick off our next series to dissect the history of public education and the fight for education justice. 

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!”

Ay, ay, ay! This election is reminiscent of the 2016 Presidential race. Liberals all in their feelings because all of the candidates are meh – yet they’re trying desperately to convince you that their horse is the one to place your bet on.

Meanwhile, Lefties in the hood are shrugging their shoulders ‘cause none of these candidates truly embody the progressive values we seek in our leaders.

Voting season is upon us again and voting is important! But, do you know who & what to vote for? More importantly, do you know why voting is a life and death matter?

We continue our Black Love, Brown Pride Series by discussing the mass incarceration the ways it harms African American & Latino families and communities. Our guest is Ivette Alé, Statewide Co-Coordinator of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), a statewide coalition working to shift money away from prisons towards human services. 

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.

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

We continue our Black Love, Brown Pride Series by discussing organizing in the era of high-profile police killings of unarmed African Americans and other people of color. Our guest is Dr. Melina Abdullah, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at Cal State Los Angeles and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Los…

Ya pasó algún tiempo desde que les trajimos la purititima verdad. Pero honestamente, ha sido un alivio porque al igual que usted, nos empezamos a cansar de tanta pinche elección tan frecuentemente.

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

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

It’s been a minute since we last hit you with that hot fire. To be honest, we’re glad because we, too, were fucking exhausted of putting out voter guides every month.

We kick off this series discussing Black/Brown relations including tensions and love. We open up with our experiences with racial tensions and life-changing experiences. Please send us your own by email thehooddigest@gmail.com and we may read your story as part of our series! Meet Rob & Emilee McGowan who provide personal and professional services in the…

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

On this Episode 2: we talk about Teach For America in Los Angeles, we discuss giving back to the community with Let’s Give, and the need to address tensions between Mexicans, Central Americans & our haters!

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

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?

Meet co-hosts Elmer and La Mikia, Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson talks marijuana, and La Mikia wins a car.

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

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

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?

This Hood Digest endorsement goes to  Wendy Carrillo. None of the other candidates are hustling harder. 

Wendy has garnered some notable endorsements from the powerful Service Employees International Union (SEIU), labor icon Dolores Huerta, and the CA Assembly legislative women’s caucus.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This report does not give me hope. The audit is recommending that our students be further targeted and criminalized. It reads as though it is scolding LAUSD for not harassing students and disrupting learning.  

Drug addiction doesn’t make you a stupid ass, but it drives you to make stupid ass choices.

That’s what happened to the Dean of the USC Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito.

The National Council of La Raza, (NCLR) surprised everyone on July 10 when they unveiled their new name. This was like a mega gender reveal party – it’s that thing pregnant gringos do to announce whether their baby is gonna be a boy or a girl. It’s like a babyshower, but way more boring.

Comparing President Donald J. Trump to a child is problematic. It’s easier to dismiss Trump’s behavior as childish rather than addressing the fact that he’s an entitled, racist, old, White dude.

Are you feeling tired of elections? Well, don’t turn off your bullshit radar just yet!! For the next couple of months, some of us are gonna be seeing more glossy mailers and answering annoying calls telling you to vote for people you ain’t neva heard of! This coming June, voters in Northeast LA will be deciding on a new a U.S. Congressman. If Jimmy Gomez wins that race, his Assembly seat will be up for grabs. How many progressive Latinas do you think are gonna compete against one another for that one?

More Latinos are running for this Congressional seat than attended Rubi’s Quinceañera. You’d think they were giving away free tamales in the House Of Representatives the way that so many of my gentes jumped in this race. A point on this crowded congressional competition: saying you will stand up to Donald Trump is easy! Calling out his cadre of racist buffoons is a nobrainer. Shit, Fox News and the Koch brothers are standing up to that mamon!

On March 7 get out and vote. Don’t make excuses about you being too busy or feeling like your vote doesn’t matter. Don’t be a pendeja or pendejo… that’s pendejx for people in Boyle Heights. You’re entitled to a 2-hour lunch break. That’s 30 extra minutes than what you already take- no te ahagas. So, go vote, take advantage of your 2-hour break, then walk proudly back into your job- like the descarados that you are, knowing that your “I voted” sticker will give you a pass.

You already know there are too many damn initiatives on the ballot and you’re too damn busy to learn about them all. #HoodDigest got you! So, grab a lapiz, cafe, pan dulce, and brace yourself!

Está cansada de tantas elecciones? Por favor no apague su radar de promesas falsas todavía!! El próximo par de meses algunos de nosotros vamos a recibir más folletos brillosos y llamadas pidiéndonos que votemos por candidatos que sepa la papa quién serán!

I read this article and tried to watch the video, which has already been taken down– so if you got a bootleg copy of it, holla at me!!

67% of us voted for Clinton, 29% for Trump. Yeah, 1/3 of us went with him. But, why?

Let’s start by explaining what it means to be Latino. Latino/Hispanic is an ethnicity, which creates a lot of confusion about our identity.

I was anti-Clinton until this past weekend. I still don’t believe that she has my, or my two sons’, or my South LA at heart. I don’t believe that her interests are much different than those of other wealthy White Americans.