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    Gustavo Arellano: She decided her magazine had to proclaim that Black lives matter — in Spanish

    by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times Oct 12, 2020 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - As Black Lives Matter protests swept across the country this past June, Ivette Zamora Cruz felt simultaneously proud and embarrassed.

    She was thrilled to see hundreds of Latinos attend rallies across the Coachella Valley, from Palm Springs to Indio to her hometown of Rancho Mirage. But she saw other Latinos say online that the fight wasn't theirs, so why bother joining?

    Zamora Cruz thought about her own life.

    About how family members back in Mexico casually nicknamed darker-skinned relatives la negra (the black girl) or la morena (the dark-skinned girl). How she didn't know much about Black history beyond what she

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