April Fools or Día de Inocentes?

I’m always on guard on April 1st because my life is filed with pranksters. My natural skepticism is enhanced (it’s a skill I developed over decades as a working journalist). And it’s not easy this year because I […]

This is a cliché good news-bad news story. The national unemployment rate has fallen to 8.8 percent. There were 216 thousand jobs added across the country in the month of […]

Here’s the thing, along with  commemorating the official Cesar Chavez Day, today is also the anniversary of the day that Tejano singer Selena died. There have been more Twitter and […]

Last year on this day President Barack Obama signed a proclamation officially marking March 31st as Cesar Chavez day. I’ve been reading and remembering this morning. I’m not among the fortunate who knew Cesar, […]

It’s an interesting intersection of laws. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) says it will not deny green-card applications to persons of bi-national same sex marriages. The reason: the Defense of Marriage […]

Remember little Emily Ruiz? She’s the four year old girl, born in the US, who had traveled to Guatemala with her grandfather. On their return trip the grandfather was denied entry into […]

The President went on Univision last night to talk directly to Latinos about education. We’re glad he did. But is that enough? And what comes next? The truth is that […]

How many of you watched President Obama’s town hall meeting on Univision? I ask because a report in The Hill names the Spanish language broadcaster as an influencer in the […]

Here’s a statistic that makes cultural sense: “Hispanics, especially first- and second-generation Mexican-Americans, are less likely to donate organs than Americans as a whole, according to organ donation experts.” The […]

The term has been synonymous with the gay rights movement, but recently college students have appropriated the idea and applied it to their immigration status. It’s become a deliberate “thing” that aims to put […]