Erick Galindo
Erick Galindo is former LAist staff member. He is a five-time Telly Award-winning writer, director and producer known for The Mexican Beverly Hills; A Laker Life; On Life As A Freckle-Faced, Redheaded, Mexican American From Southeast Los Angeles; and Mis Angeles. Erick regularly writes about culture for LAist, NPR station LAist 89.3 (formerly KPCC) and The New York Times, and was the first managing editor of L.A. Taco, where his work won a James Beard Foundation award. His narrative directorial debut The Bubble Machine premiered at the Golden State Film Festival and was a semifinalist for the jellyFest award. His co-written pilot Hot in Carson was a finalist for the Black List's inaugural Latinx TV List and his audio documentary Early was a finalist for KCRW's Radio Race. In 2020, his dark comedy script Legends was selected for the NHMC Latinx Screenwriters Showcase.
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Native communities all around the country are being hit disportionately hard by the pandemic. It's been particularly hard for indigenous people who are part of the Latin American diaspora. -
One in three indigenous Meso-Americans living in Los Angeles has experienced coronavirus or knows someone close to them that has, according to a group that serves local indigenous communities.
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'I wonder if they ever imagined that they would be with us forever...as we try and will a true portrait of America into existence.'
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"I wonder if they ever imagined that they would be with us forever...as we try and will a true portrait of America into existence."
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La Casita Mexicana in Bell has served the Southeast L.A. community for nearly 25 years, and I was starting to get worried about their future after months of being closed during the pandemic. So I put my mask on and went over to chat with the chefs about how they are surviving. It's been rough.
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In the middle of March, chefs and owners Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu of La Casita Mexicana shut the critically acclaimed Bell restaurant all the way down due to the pandemic. The future looked uncertain. Now there's a ray of hope.
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I felt so angry and helpless. I had a million thoughts running through me. Some were more violent than others. But the biggest, most important one was, 'What am I going to do about these kids?'
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How the late Mexican American writer's seminal novel "Bless Me, Ultima" changed the way I saw myself.
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Like concerns over COVID-19 and arguments about police brutality, the missing Latina U.S. soldier has sat with my family at breakfast, lunch and dinner. But not with most of America. Would it be different if she were white?
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When people from marginalized communities gain entry, can they actually change the institutions that have so much power over a system that seems to work against us? God, I hope so.
