Why You Should Stop Using the Term DREAMer
Gaby Pacheco was one of four immigrant youth who in 2010 launched a four-month, 1,500-mile walk to urge then-President…
Stop Calling These Riots, Now
Watts, Detroit, Ferguson: all sites of historic uprisings in 1965, 1967, and 2014, and each was labeled a “riot” in…
Stop Calling People of Color ‘Minorities’
Who identifies as a “minority” when it comes to race in America? Many Fusion writers and editors find the label…
Lo que queremos decir cuando usamos el término 'latinx'
Cuando Isa Noyola tuvo una entrevista en el noticiero Democracy Now! el año pasado para hablar sobre el tiroteo en el…
What We Mean When We Say Latinx
When Isa Noyola made an appearance on Democracy Now! last year to talk about the Pulse nightclub shooting, the…
What we mean, and don’t mean, by ‘Islamophobia’
Just two days after Donald Trump’s refugee ban targeted seven Muslim-majority countries, a white nationalist shot and…
Let's call lies 'lies'
Seventy percent of Donald Trump’s public statements are false, according to PolitiFact. Some percentage of those are…
Why we don't call people 'blacks' and 'whites'
Words matter. Especially now. In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, words matter because facts and lives are at stake,…