Meet Bamby Salcedo, President and CEO of TransLatin@ Coalition. Bamby founded one of the largest organizations supporting Trans people in America. She also serves on the Board of the ERA Coalition and strives to ensure that all people are recognized as equal.
Month: October 2023
The Myth of Columbus as a hero and the significance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day
For centuries, Christopher Columbus was portrayed as a heroic explorer who “discovered” The Americas. However, this narrative ignores the fact that Indigenous peoples had inhabited the continent for thousands of years before Columbus’s arrival. Columbus’s voyages marked the beginning of a long history of colonization, exploitation, and violence against Indigenous populations, and death. How can we move past that now?
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