Latinx Heritage Month

After years of advocacy for a permanent space, the Latine community should not have to compromise — especially at a campus that intends to cultivate and serve its diverse community.

My entire life has been filled with a vast array of different Salvadoran cuisine. I would watch my grandmother make tortillas or sopa in the kitchen every day, and wait patiently for my mom to bring home pan when she’d come back from work.

Cuando era niña, escuchaba historia tras historia de mi abuela en El Salvador — Abuelita Marta. Escucharía cuánto la amaba su familia, cuánto la extrañaba mi madre, cuánto la amaría yo también.

Spanglish was spoken inside my home as a kid. I never minded the gaps where my English filled the spaces in my mother’s native tongue. By the time I reached the peak of growing pains, suddenly the gaps in my speech mattered.

The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board held their bi-monthly meeting Wednesday to discuss Latinx Heritage Month, employee health care and mental health, among other topics. 

Vaccine mandates and updates on Black Lives Matter and Latinx resolutions were up for discussion at the Berkeley school board’s Wednesday meeting.