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These actors are standing up for representation in their work and are using their platforms to discuss the issues that TCKs face every day.

Native American populations often fly under the public eye, and issues on reservations rarely make it into mainstream U.S. news coverage. U.S. culture is always described as a melting pot, a blend and mash of the culture of immigrants and […]

Born in Havana, Cuba in November 1948, Ana Mendieta was a well-known performance artist throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. At age 12, she and her sister were forced to flee Cuba after her father joined an anti-Castro counter-revolutionary force, and the two siblings spent their first few weeks in the United States at a refugee camp in Florida until they were sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa — a location with a culture very different from the life Ana knew back in Cuba. She wouldn’t reunite with her mother and brother for five years and her father for another 18.

Aziz Ansari’s “Master of None” follows a young Indian American man, Dev, who is the first generation in his family to live in the United States. Dev is modeled after Ansari himself whose parents immigrated from India. The show tackles […]

The idea of customization has gained popularity in today’s consumer-driven society.

From a white man playing an Arab swordsman in 1983’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” to the use of desert landscapes in science fiction to Persian vampires, one could argue that Middle Eastern representation in pop culture — while making good strides in the right direction — still has a ways to go.

Barbara Agrait, a Cuban-American public relations professional, loves being able to speak both English and Spanish.

Feelings of unresolved grief, confusion, losing a sense of self and forming a new community (or lack of) can all be traced back to the journey of an immigrant.