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29 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Spread the word👏🏽 On Nov. 12, the @latimes will launch a much-anticipated, FREE weekly newsletter, the Latinx Files, to highlight the issues affecting our community — from the pandemic to the recession to immigration... latimes.com/california/sto…
This newsletter hosted by @fidmart85 will also include critiques of our exclusion from mainstream culture emerging from Hollywood, the latest Bad Bunny release & everything in between. Sign up at latimes.com/latinx-files or latimes.com/newsletters to get it in your inbox 🥳
Nearly half of Los Angeles is Latinx. So is 40% of California and nearly 20% of the United States. Yet our stories have been too rarely told by the media — yes, including the @latimes. The Latinx Files is part of The Times’ broader effort to rectify that.
Learn more about this awesome project by reading this thread posted by @fidmart85, who’s been working hard to bring this newsletter to readers.

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Due in large part to U.S. intrusion, I was separated from my mom at age 2. By the time I met her at age 5, she was a stranger to me. Every day, since then, our relationship has suffered deeply, painfully due to our time apart. What these families have endured is utterly inhumane.
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He lives in his native Idaho and works at a potato warehouse 🥔
His dad is of Mexican descent and his mom hails from the Northern Arapaho tribe in Wyoming.
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27 Sep
Make no mistake. The @latimes has a long way to go to correct the ugliness of the past.

Today, our masthead — the 14 leaders who make every major decision about our newsroom and coverage — does not include a single Latino.

This is in L.A., where half the community is Latino. Image
And NO — promoting or hiring 1 or 2 or 3 Latinos to join the @latimes masthead is not enough.

In a place like L.A., half of these portraits must be Latino.

Make that happen & you’ll see true change unfold in every corner of our newsroom. @DrPatSoonShiong @NPearlstine #SomosLAT
Those of you wondering how I could possibly expect @latimes leadership to one day be half Latino:

There is absolutely nothing radical about asking newsrooms to mirror the communities they chronicle.

L.A. County demographics:
Latino 48.6%
White 26.1%
Asian 15.4 %
Black 9%
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27 Sep
Nationwide, newsrooms have been facing a reckoning over just how white their ranks are & have historically been.

Today the @latimes launches a project examining its record of racism, failures.

“There’s a lot of rawness & a lot of anger & it’s justified”
Through a series of essays, the @latimes will take an unflinching look at its pages & its newsroom, examining where it failed readers, where it made progress & where it must still go.

Grateful to the @LATBlackCaucus @LATLatinoCaucus for pushing to make this examination happen. Image
For at least its first 80 years, the @latimes was an institution deeply rooted in white supremacy & committed to promoting the interests of the city’s industrialists & landowners

An examination of @latines failures on race, our apology and a path forward
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