by Hector De Leon | Jun 7, 2020 | Stories
“Do you say that it is always good to be a non-conformist because you believe that, almost necessarily, the establishment—the institutions—embody the worst rather than the best of humankind? That, under such circumstances, dissent is almost necessarily the proper...
by Hector De Leon | May 28, 2020 | Other Perspectives
Did having a person of color on the #Presidential_Ticket in 2008 and 2012 raise voter turnout among the #Democratic_Party’s most loyal constituency? A comparison of the total number of registered voters and total ballots cast in the 2012 and 2016 Presidential...
by Hector De Leon | May 3, 2020 | Educational Speeches
Facing the early afternoon glare, our eyes are partly closed while my son, my wife and I are at a Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) rail station. It is the scene depicted in a photograph I found from 2004. A closer look shows that the squint and the prescription...
by Hector De Leon | Mar 13, 2020 | Other Perspectives
“This is like gridlock on the 405.” A resilient voter in Los Angeles County expressed this sentiment, comparing the voting experience to driving on the nation’s busiest Interstate Highway, as he stood in line to vote in the March 3, 2020, Super...
by Hector De Leon | Dec 28, 2019 | Featured 1
Several minutes before midnight on December 27, 1999—thirty-two days after Thanksgiving, two days after Christmas, and four days before the new year—my father took his last breath. According to my eldest sister, the nurse on duty was alerted but entered the room after...
