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<p>When I was growing up, my family spoke mostly Spanish, but everyone at my school spoke English. Since my mother prioritized academic success over cultural acclimation for me, I found myself slowly abandoning Spanish. Taking Spanish as an elective in middle- and high school helped me make technical sense of the written language, but by then I had abandoned my mother’s native tongue in full, uprooting a small sense of my position in my extended family.</p>

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<p>The phenomenon of #DrivingWhileBlack has long been documented. The latest social media firestorm chronicles #LaughingWhileBlack.</p>

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<p>When Dr. Donna Schindler was a senior at the University of Texas, School of Medicine in 1979, she did an externship at the Laguna Pueblo near Albuquerque, New Mexico. That’s where she said she fell in love with working with Native people. After doing her psychiatry residency in the Bay Area and then working for ten years, she traveled to New Zealand where she joined a Maori mental health team.</p>

Barrio Logan:
By Elena Victoria Marques