Our conversation about gun violence is tired, we need to change the story
February 15, 2018
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San Anto Southside
Westside Honors Gala Celebrates Civic Leaders, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
The Westside Development Corporation (WDC) spent Thursday night formally recognizing civic contributors. More than 500 people attended the City delegate organization’s ninth annual Westside Honors Gala at Rosedale Park. A Democratic political […]
2018: a year for the Latino Vote
We have said it before: being a minority does not mean being powerlessness, especially when a large part of the outcome of an election could be transformed thanks to the mass […]
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Latinos outraged as national news outlet labels nopales as ‘hottest food trend of 2018’
vlanda January 8, 2018 -
‘Coco,’ Guillermo del Toro win Golden Globe awards
vlanda January 8, 2018 -
Rosca de Reyes – A Slice of Gospel and Tradition #Recipe
vlanda January 4, 2018
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Politics
US officials must now say “illegal aliens,” not “undocumented immigrants”
The US Department of Justice wants US attorneys offices to stop referring to undocumented immigrants, the term that media and immigrant advocates have increasingly used to refer to people who […]
Declining white population is spawning fears, bias
Over the last three decades, demographers have told us that there would come a day when the declining white population would become less than half of the U.S. population. The […]
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Is THIS the Year Latino Voters Finally Turn Arizona Blue?
vlanda July 17, 2018 -
Border congressman among highest funded by group running immigrant detention centers
vlanda June 22, 2018 -
Trump’s family separation at the border: a visual explainer
vlanda June 19, 2018
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NewsTaco Podcast Network
Dieciocho, Episode 14, Memorial Day 2018, Latino Vietnam Veterans, Tomas Summers Sandoval
This is a special edition of DIECIOCHO. On this Memorial Day I talk with Prof. Tomas Summers Sandoval about his work collecting the oral histories of Latino Vietnam veterans. We talk about […]
DIECIOCHO Podcast: Hispanic Heritage Month: Why We Should Stop Saying We’re a Nation of Immigrants
We’re not a nation of immigrants, we’re an immigrant nation, and there’s a big difference between the two. This 2017 edition of Hispanic Heritage Month is a good time to […]
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DIECIOCHO Podcast – Manny Ruiz, Hispanicize Texas
vlanda July 27, 2017 -
DIECIOCHO Podcast: Texas Rep. Rafael Anchia – Trump, Gerrymandering and Money
newstaco June 8, 2017 -
DIECIOCHO Podcast: Dr. Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda – How Trump’s tax plan affects Latinos
newstaco May 2, 2017
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Victor's Blog
How to Learn From the World’s Best Blogger
I was recently asked for the name the world’s best blogger, which I took to mean, in a roundabout way, my favorite blogger. The questioner was looking to learn from […]
Fact: Lee HS in San Antonio will change its name; there are no major high schools in the city named after a notable Tejano
Robert E. Lee High School, in San Antonio, Texas, will be changing its name. That’s what the North East Independent School Board unanimously voted to do last night. But there’s no word on […]
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One of the Victims of the Immigrant Trailer Tragedy was a DREAMer
vlanda July 26, 2017 -
The Immigrant Trailer Tragedy is One Story in 6,000
vlanda July 24, 2017 -
How DREAMers are in the middle of a political showdown
vlanda July 21, 2017
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