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...close the United States is and exactly how much we forget that in our national debate.” From May to July, Long and her collaborators travelled the entire border in a 1987 Vanagon to shoot the films. One of their clips tells the story of Jose Rivera, an 18-year-old born in Mexico and raised in Tempe, Arizona, who had to return to Mexico this year because he had no social security number or photo ID. “I never really felt I was illegal,” Rivera says in the video...
...will leave few to no seats in the middle two cars of a six-car Red Line train. Beginning today, these high-capacity “Big Red” cars will hold an additional 28 passengers per car, increasing capacity by about 10 percent, MBTA spokesperson Lydia M. Rivera said. She said that the MBTA has equipped the new cars with additional straps and hand rails for customers to hold onto while riding. Only one train with Big Red cars will be in service for the weekday rush hour period. The cars will be labeled with signs, so customers...
...From our standpoint the issue is funding," explains Valerie Vazquez-Rivera, director of communications for the New York City Board of Elections. "If we were properly funded we would have more staff members to work with the increase in voter registration as well as absentee ballots...
Born in North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, Alex Rivera reported on and photographed civil rights stories about the last lynchings in South Carolina and Georgia as well as school desegregation in the South. Working for newspapers like the Washington Tribune and the Pittsburgh Courier, Rivera also photographed African Americans such as opera singer Marian Anderson and tennis legend Arthur Ashe. He later spent more than 15 years as the publicist for North Carolina Central University. Rivera...
...Rivera, Louisma and Acosta face up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine on counts of wire fraud. Meanwhile, Rivera and Louisma face separate foreclosure proceedings that may see them losing not only their own personal property but, in Rivera's case, her business. Neither Rivera nor Louisma have entered pleas. But Louisma's lawyer Harold Long told TIME, "This was a pretty extravagant and elaborate scheme. It's really uncertain if [Louisma] knew the parameters of this thing. I think he is prepared to assume responsibility for what he did at some point in time." Acosta...