to contribute to Eve’s medical expenses. As of Wednesday afternoon,theStandard-Timesreported I tell my daughters that we are the descendants of the people who took the land from the ancestors of the Chicanitas they play with every day on the playground. In fact, these weren’t just distant relatives. My great-uncle was one of the Texas Rangers, a fact I was proud of growing up, until I read inBorderlands/La Frontera differentiates millennial finances from other generations, with millennials more likely to have student debt that exceeds their annual income. In 2016, millennial households had a student loan-to-income ratio that exceeded 100%, compared with ratios of 50% or less in previous generations. The figures are particularly grim for those in the bottom 25%. While Gen X'ers and baby boomers in that cohort had a net worth around zero, on average, these millennials have about $19,470 in debt. My need to be an activist came very much from a need to understand history. And how things that happened before have influenced what’s happening now. We covered Rosa Parks for, like, three days in history. But there is so much more than what is in the history books. To me, activism is a need to know, a need to explain, and a need to help. At first I was very scared of the term. I thought, Am I actually doing enough? Then I realized that oftentimes existing is activism in itself. For instance, I think it’s brave for girls to go to college when there is a one-in-four chance that they will be raped. That in itself is activism. I wish all girls and people of color called themselves activists.YS: