Important Information For Parents

Important Information For Parents

NewsTaco December 2, 2015

SPONSORED CONTENT (NAPSA)—Kids depend on their parents for guidance, and the help that they get can make a big difference in their lives. If you are the parent of a […]

How I Earned My Citizenship Defending This Country

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*This essay is one of a series of personal accounts compiled by CUNY Graduate School of Journalism student Rachel Glickhouse. The series is titled  “My Time in Line,” in which immigrants […]

Latino Leaders Stand Up for Clean Air

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*According to the National Hispanic Medical Association “As of 2008, 4.7 million Hispanics had been diagnosed with asthma. In their lifetime, Latinos are three times more likely to die from […]

Chicago Public Schools students judge Mayor Emanuel’s Laquan McDonald speech

NewsTaco December 1, 2015

*Ray Salazar, Chicago High School English teacher and frequent NewsTaco contributor, took the event of the Laquan McDonald shooting and turned it into a writing and judgement lesson. He gives […]

Is Pemex Coming to America?

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*Apparently, yes. There’s a picture of a Pemex station under construction in Houston. The best part? Check out the photo, there’s a Taco Shack sign  at the bottom of the […]

‘Hispandering’ or just campaigning? Some try to give Latino outreach negative spin

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*Good question. Where’s the line between campaigning and pandering? I ask because I’m sure there will be as many different answers as there are readers of this article. Next question, […]

Why So Many Minority Millennials Can’t Get Ahead

NewsTaco November 30, 2015

*Read this, take it into account when you think about and discuss Latino employment, Latino upward mobility, Latino college attainment, Latino millennials. We tend to dump young Latinos in a […]

Thousands of children crossed U.S-Mexoco border in October

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*The surge is happening despite several anticipated trends, one of which is a general uptick in crossings in the spring, followed by a decline in the summer and fall. The […]

Latin American mercenaries, bankrolled by United Arab Emirates, join Yemen proxy war

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*The Latin American mercenary program was started by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, but has been taken over by the Emirati military. Apparently the Colombian mercenaries are valued because they are […]

Hispanic female first to reach rank of FL National Guard General

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*This past week Colonel Valeria Gonzalez-Kerr was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the Florida National Guard, she’ll be assigned as Assistant Adjutant General. General Gonzalez-Kerr has an impressive […]