Lack of Voting Resources Leads to Long Lines, Delays Longer in Minority Precincts
Lack of Voting Resources Leads to Long Lines, Delays Longer in Minority Precincts
PRESS RELEASE Brennan Center for Justice Studied States Fail to Comply With Resource Allocation Requirements New York, NY – Lack of poll workers and low numbers of voting machines are key […]
Q&A: What is the American Dream?
*What a great way to begin “Hispanic Heritage Month.” A frank discussion about the American Dream. Richard Rodriguez says that the American Dream is essentially an immigrant dream, that immigrants […]
#WhatLatinoMeansToMe: This Is How Latinos In America Actually Identify
*There’s a back story here (there always is). I’m tapped-out with “Hispanic Heritage Month.” Every year, when September 15th comes around, marketers and media roll out their old ideas, dust […]
807AM En Nuevo Laredo
*The artist Navarro first came to my attention in the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO. He’s a native Chicagoan whose family went there from Nuevo Laredo, […]
Coalition Of 50 Hispanic Groups Aims To ‘Deliver Record Latino Turnout’ For Midterms
*Maria Teresa Kumnar: “We are calling [on] American Latinos to rise above our political differences and to unite as a community this November.” What do you think? Possible? VL By […]
National Welcoming Week: A Plea for Compassion for 2,000 Young Long Island Arrivals
*Aside from being the start of “Hispanic Heritage Month,” this is also National Welcoming Week. Never heard of it? Neither had I. So what is it? It’s “a nationwide event […]
Voto Latino Gathers Latino Millennials for Change in San Antonio
By Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, NewsTaco Something quite bold was attempted in San Antonio, TX this past weekend; young Latino students were asked to venture out of their day to day […]
The Militia Next Door
*From the article: A ” … neighborhood, not far from the Rio Grande, already has government surveillance cameras, heavily armed Border Patrol agents and Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens. There […]
Feds Planning Massive Family Detention Center in South Texas
*In parts of the country where non-Latinos are the majority, the not-in-my-backyard anti-immigrant detention center sentiment is strong. But in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where Latinos are a […]
UT-Austin Creates Major In Mexican American and Latino Studies
*This is good, this is very good. VL By Raul Reyes, NBC News Almost four out of ten Texas residents is Latino, and Hispanics are an integral part of the […]
