Erick Galindo

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?'

How the late Mexican American writer's seminal novel "Bless Me, Ultima" changed the way I saw myself.

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?

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.

"Sometimes I feel the weight of being judged as a person of color. Other times I feel awkward being seen as the only white guy in the room. It is through this murky fog that I have fought to carve out my own American identity."

Rudy Barrientos said even as he processed the win: "Right away, I was thinking there's probably gonna be more fight against us from the other side now,because you know that every action has an equal and opposite reaction."

For some reason, I've been granted a platform to highlight the beauty and strength of L.A.'s most invisible communities. But that's not something I can do if I'm broken.

About 300 people would wind up shutting down Brookshire Avenue and marching along Firestone Boulevard, two of the city's busiest streets, for the biggest display of civil disobedience Downey has seen in my lifetime.

It's never easy writing an obituary, especially one about someone whose life was cut short by COVID-19, and "especially one about someone who could have easily been my cousin."

I didn't want to write an obituary, especially one about someone who could have easily been my cousin.

Gaspar Gomez was a father, an immigrant and one of the first known day laborers to die of COVID-19 in L.A. County.

For essential workers protected by deportation by DACA, the feeling that they could soon lose the lives they've built is much like the existential fear most people have about getting COVID-19: Everything could end. A Supreme Court decision on DACA is expected next month.