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Three-toed sloths have a highly-specialized diet of exclusively leaves, mostly guarumo leaves. This limited diet may make these beloved mammals especially vulnerable to human-caused ecological disturbances, but a new study indicates that three-toed sloths may be in a bit of luck. Published last week, a study based in Costa Rica revealed some optimistic findings about the fate of the...
Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported the firing of a dozen undocumented workers from the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York. The firings took place on Friday, January 18th, only a day before President Trump made a “major announcement” to temporarily extend DACA in exchange for border wall funding from Congress. All of the undocumented employees...
Gina Rodriguez, Latina actress beloved for her leading role in Jane the Virgin, has been under fire on social media for what critics are calling out as anti-Black rhetoric. For the first time this week, Rodriguez addressed these criticisms in a tearful interview with Sway on his radio show. Many of her critics are still unsatisfied, disappointed, and exasperated. Here’s...
Activist, author, and political commentator Van Jones is heading up a super squad of high-profile figures in the effort to reform the U.S. prison system under an initiative called the Reform Alliance. The team is made up of leaders from a cross-section of industries, including the arts, entertainment, sports, business, and government. Each co-founder has access to a public...
This past November, during the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party convention, parental rights advocate and PC party member Tanya Granic Allen presented a resolution that debated the validity of gender identity. The resolution referred to gender identity as nothing more than a theory with no scientific basis and called it a “highly controversial, unscientific ‘liberal ideology,’” according to an article...
Juan Guaidó, the head of Venezuela’s parliament, took a presidential oath of office in front of a crowd of anti-Maduro protesters on Wednesday afternoon. The current president, Nicolás Maduro, has not expressed any intention of stepping down and still has the support of the military and the Supreme Court. Smaller pro-Maduro protests have cropped up as well, with the current...
Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross were up bright and early on Tuesday morning to live stream the announcement of the Academy Award Nominees for 2019. The Oscars will be televised live on Sunday February 24th. They won’t be hosting the award ceremony though — the Oscars are still hostless following Kevin Hart’s decision to step down from the...
Online harassment is not less serious than analog or “real-life” harassment. It can cause you mental anguish, get you fired from a job, broadcast sensitive personal information to the public, or in some cases put you and your family at risk for physical harm. Unfortunately, current federal and state laws have little in place to protect victims of online harassment...
Dreamers Protest BeLatina
Saturday’s “major announcement” from President Trump has been summarily considered a nonstarter by Democrats who are rejecting any attempt by the president to negotiate while 800,000 federal workers are set to miss their second paycheck since the government first shutdown in December. The president’s announcement was an attempt to compromise with his congressional opposition; he offered a three-year temporary...
AOC 2018
There’s something unarrestable about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as if she were not bound by the same laws of physics than the rest of us. It isn’t just that she is in constant motion — speaking here or there, dancing in college (gasp!), or literally waltzing her way in to her well-deserved political office. She seems also to have mastered, in...
Dulce Email Featured BeLatina
Experts argue that self-love is an important, if not the most important, part of living a happy, fulfilled, and inspired life. And yet, many of us do not practice self-love. We spend all our energy and time supporting  others. We instinctively offer love to friends or family members in need of a confidence boost, and then we so quickly...
Milk and Honey Natural BeLatina
In the world of body odor and personal hygiene, going au natural is a really nice idea, but you have to do it right. After all, when left to our own devices on a hot, humid day or after a rigorous workout, our natural scent can quickly go from good to gross if not properly tended to. Do a...