Clik here to view.
Looking Deportation in the Face
Completing the mural. Photo by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana. The border between Playas de Tijuana and San Diego. Photo by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana. Painting the mural. Photo by Lizbeth De La Cruz...
View ArticleHow Latin America Built L.A.
Los Angeles is just the second U.S. city to host the Summit of the Americas, which brings together political leaders, civil society organizations, and business executives from North, South, and Central...
View ArticleWhy Migrant Butterflies Are Dying
In July, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus plexippus, to its Red List of Threatened Species, a recognition that the insect’s...
View ArticleOur Favorite Public Programs of 2022
This year on the Zócalo stage, panelists dared us to reimagine home. Showed us that we can build a better America. Reminded us that incarceration is big business. Demonstrated what dissent can look...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A New Border Wall Draws from an Old American Playbook
At long last, we reached the wall. Its glinting metal and sharp wire stood in stark contrast to the greens and golds of the Polish forest in autumn. And its towering presence transported me to another...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Venezuelan Diasporas
American media covers only two types of the 7 million-plus immigrants who have left Venezuela in the past decade. The first consists of the refugees and asylum seekers who walked across the border...
View ArticleThree Generations, Two Immigrations
The first time I immigrated, 34 years ago, I was a toddler brought to the United States by my parents from our native El Salvador. A year ago, I immigrated again, becoming a Salvadoran American living...
View ArticleHéctor Tobar Wins the 2024 Zócalo Book Prize
Héctor Tobar is the winner of the 2024 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize for Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino.” Zócalo has awarded the $10,000 prize yearly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Exiled Musicians Who Escaped Fascism for La La Land
[trinity_audio “male”]Generations ago, in the parenthesis of years between Hitler’s 1933 rise to power and the end of World War II, a deluge of European artists and intellectuals came to the U.S.,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
To Solve America’s Immigration Woes, We Need to Think, Act, and Work Locally
The Zócalo event “Could Immigration Unite Americans?” comes at a time when much of the world has actually come together in support of one group of immigrants. But, as New York Times national...
View Article