On Thursday, Arias and his council colleagues voted to make Fresno the first city in California to ban discrimination based on caste or Indigenous heritage, while a similar bill sits on Gov. Gavin ...

The word originated as a category in the colonial Mexican caste system to identify a person of mixed race. That’s me. Not white. Not indigenous. Somewhere in the middle some 500 years later.

Mexico may celebrate its mixed-race heritage, but a new study shows that racism is powerful there. Darker-skinned Mexicans earn less and finish fewer years of schooling than white citizens.