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Ed Morales

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Ed Morales is a journalist based in New York who has written for the Nation, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone and the Progressive Media Project. A former Village Voice staff writer and Newsday columnist, Morales is also the author of two books, Living in Spanglish (2003) and The Latin Beat (2003). He co-directed Whose Barrio? (2009) a documentary about the gentrification of East Harlem and is currently a lecturer at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

January 2020

  • Julian Castro<br>FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2019 file photo, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary and Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro speaks at the J Street National Conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    After Julián Castro’s departure, Latinx voters wonder: when will it be 'our time'?

    Ed Morales
    It is difficult not to see the mostly white presidential field as partly a product of the media’s lack of interest in Hispanics and candidates of color

January 2018

  • latino family in new york city

    Why I embrace the term Latinx

    Ed Morales
    Latinx – which arises from inadequacies with labels like ‘Hispanic’ and ‘Latino’ represents an openness that is increasingly under threat

July 2015

  • People walk through a shopping area in Rio Piedras where many businesses have closed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, July 1, 2015, the day a 11.5% sales tax went into effect, the highest of any U.S. state. The island's administration has been pushing for Congress to let the government and public agencies seek bankruptcy protection, while the White House has said no one is contemplating a federal bailout of Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

    Puerto Rico's soaring cost of living, from giant electric bills to $5 cornflakes

  • SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - JUNE 30: Jose Vasquez reads a newspaper with a Spanish headline that reads, "more sacrifices," a day after the speech Puerto Rican Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla gave regarding the government's $72 billion debt on June 30, 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Governor said in his speech that the people will have to sacrifice and share in the responsibilities for pulling the island out of debt. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    Puerto Rico's intensifying debt crisis has residents bracing for the worst

June 2015

  • In this Jan. 28, 2015 photo, street signs provide directions to Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Several hundred wealthy U.S. citizens have taken up residence in Puerto Rico, lured by incentives that allow them to pay minimal taxes on investment income in what critics say is a misguided effort to reverse a decade of economic decline that has prompted a middle-class exodus. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

    Puerto Rico in crisis: weighed down by $73bn debt as unemployment hits 14%

    Joblessness stands at 14%, schools are closing and physicians are leaving in droves, but on the mainland, there is little awareness of the island’s struggles

November 2012

  • Puerto Rico will vote for a governor on November 6, and hold a referendum to decide whether or not to become a US state.

    Al votar 'si' por la estadidad los puertorriqueños estan demostrando que no estan contentos con el statu quo

    Ed Morales
  • Puerto Rico will vote for a governor on November 6, and hold a referendum to decide whether or not to become a US state.

    Puerto Rico's vote for US statehood signals dissatisfaction with status quo

    Ed Morales
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