One hundred years ago, on Aug. 18, 1920, the U.S. Congress ratified the 19th Amendment, granting women the long-overdue legal right to vote. But honoring women’s contributions to politics has been obscured by the latest onslaught of violence against women, right here, close to home.

“Minorities” were characterized as a group of people at the bottom of society’s shoe, in need of handouts by the generosity of the establishment, the white majority. I have spent the better part of my professional life in championing for the fair treatment of Hispanics-Latinos in newsrooms and news coverage. The time has come to stop labeling people of color as “minorities.”