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I felt my heart stop when I saw the news alert come across my phone: Donald Trump says he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine, supposedly to prevent himself from coming down with serious COVID-19 symptoms in the event he’s exposed to the coronavirus. He’s disregarding the warnings by his own FDA that the drug could have serious […]

We now have to deal with a shortage of hydroxychloroquine, the drug that has been keeping me alive for more than two decades. Read the story here.

Growing up, I looked up to Mami’s closest friends. They were full of interesting stories about escapades from their respective native countries. All of them somehow managed to work, take care of their families, and send something back to family members who hadn’t immigrated. Some of them were even entrepreneurs, starting businesses at home, selling

As a first-generation Latina, I’m used to having to translate for my Spanish-speaking family members when I accompany them to their doctors’ appointments. In fact, I was the one who most often took my Abuela to the doctor. Despite writing down all of her medications, the dose she took, and why she took them on a

When you’re born to parents from different countries (or in my case, one country and one US territory), who are you? My Puerto Rican father was proud of his heritage, and my Colombian mother spoke of the beautiful country she left behind to migrate to the US. All my cousins were fully one nationality or

When I read about the recent appellate ruling in the case of a drunken 16-year-old boy who had forced himself onto an intoxicated 16-year-old girl in a basement in New Jersey, it brought me back to my years as a public defender. I was one of the original eight attorneys who opened the Bronx Defenders

Advocates for the disabled feel vindicated after a state Supreme Court justice recently allowed a class-action lawsuit to proceed against the MTA over inaccessible subway stations. As a disabled subway rider, I, too, feel abandoned by the MTA. There are no elevators in the station closest to my home in Midtown East, and the stairs