Gabriel R. Sanchez

To recognize the six U.S. Native American nations represented by students enrolled at The University of Southern Mississippi, the flag of each nation is now flying at R.C. University Union. Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021.Southern Miss Native American Flags

The monthly jobs report ignores Native Americans. How are they faring economically?

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Robert Maxim, and Raymond Foxworth

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his Build Back Better infrastructure agenda at the NJ TRANSIT Meadowlands Maintenance Complex in Kearny, New Jersey, U.S., October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

What does the Build Back Better Framework mean for BIPOC communities?

Kristen Broady, Camille Busette, Tonantzin Carmona, Keon L. Gilbert, Carlos Martín, Robert Maxim, Andre M. Perry, Rashawn Ray, and Gabriel R. Sanchez

Friday, November 5, 2021

Members of a NYC homeless advocacy coalition staged a direct action on July 29, 2021 outside City Hall to call out Mayor de Blasios Broken Record on Homelessness. Some participants engaged in an act of civil disobedience, resulting in 9 arrests. The group demand that the Mayor and city agencies act immediately to halt inhumane and poorly executed transfers of single New Yorkers experiencing homelessness from COVID-safe hotels into the unsafe congregate shelter system; stop NYPD street sweeps of people into the shelter system; and for the Mayor to take immediate action on Intro 146, a bill which require the City to pay higher rates in its rental assistance voucher program for homeless New Yorkers, which are currently so low as to be useless for the majority of people who qualify. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

States under time crunch to provide housing assistance: How to fix it

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A person receives a vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Acres Home Multi-Service Center in Houston, Texas, U.S., October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo

Discrimination in the healthcare system is leading to vaccination hesitancy

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Matt Barreto, Ray Block, Henry Fernandez, and Raymond Foxworth

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

A woman wearing a protective face mask looks on during a Latino voter registration event in Lilburn, Georgia, U.S. December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers

Immigration and the Latino vote: A golden opportunity for Democrats in 2022

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Thursday, June 17, 2021

People suffering from food insecurities line up to receive food donations along Northern Boulevard in the Queens neighborhood of New York, NY, May 20, 2020. Organized by food manufacter Goya and Mecenas (Mexican Cultural Expressions National Society), approximately 1500 boxes of food were distributed to waiting crowds. (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Skepticism and mistrust challenge COVID vaccine uptake for Latinos

Gabriel R. Sanchez and Juan M. Peña

Monday, January 25, 2021

Members of Mi Familia Vota walk along a street to promote the importance of the Latino vote in the majority Hispanic neighbourhood of Maryvale in Phoenix, Arizona U.S., November 1, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Yes, social justice and discrimination were driving issues for Latino voters in 2020

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Friday, November 6, 2020

People attend an ecumenical worship service at Mi Familia Vota headquarters to promote the importance of the Latino vote in Phoenix, Arizona U.S., November 1, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

With the Affordable Care Act in peril, Latinos voted to protect access to health insurance

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Friday, November 6, 2020

Guests wear face masks while visiting the Disney Springs shopping and dining district in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The Florida Department of Health reported 3,207 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, marking a record daily high for Florida since the pandemic began. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM - NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY)

American individualism is an obstacle to wider mask wearing in the US

Edward D. Vargas and Gabriel R. Sanchez

Monday, August 31, 2020

Maria Ochoa, 50, poses for a portrait inside her home Tuesday, May 5, 2020 in Chicago. Ochoa, her husband and daughter have been sick with COVID-19 for two weeks. She believes her family contracted the virus from her husband's meat packing job in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

COVID-19 is having a devastating impact on the economic well-being of Latino families

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Edward D. Vargas, and Adrián A. Pedroza

Monday, July 27, 2020