An opinion piece by Gabriel S. Galanda in Native News Online calls on Native communities to “forgive and forget” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Those demanding documentation proving Native heritage fail to consider that such records hardly existed in the late 19th century. Many Natives, instead, learned of their ancestry through their grandmother – like Sen. Warren says she did. Link to original story →

A group of Latino immigrants from North Carolina who attended the canonization of Monsignor Romero shared with the pope the situation faced by hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the U.S. who received temporary protected status, and the impact that the protection’s termination will have on families if the beneficiaries are forced to return to their countries of origin. The pope told them “to keep fighting, and added that migrating is a human right,” Fidel Campos-Sorto, of the North Carolina Salvadoran Association, told Qué Pasa Raleigh/Durham.   Link to original story →

Civil rights activists are concerned that changes proposed to Puerto Rico’s civil code, such as limiting adoption rights to heterosexual couples and giving “unborn children” rights, could set back years of equality struggles and harm vulnerable communities, El Nuevo Día reports. Measures in a bill currently being considered in the Puerto Rican House of Representatives do not recognize U.S. federal legal advances in the past decade, such as same-sex marriage sanctioned by the Supreme Court. The existing Puerto Rico Civil Code, approved in 1930, is in the process of being reformed. Link to original story →

As the relationship between China and the U.S. turns icy, several Chinese Americans working for government entities such as the NOAA, NASA, and the NSA are either under investigation or have been forced to leave on suspicions that they might be spying for China. Samuel Mok, former CFO of the U.S. Department of Labor during the Bush administration, shared advice for surviving the spy-phobic era at a forum hosted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in Washington, D.C., reports World Journal. One approach: “”Do not contact foreigners, let alone the Chinese. Do not travel abroad.” Link to original story →