11 Year Old Attacked for Being Latino

The reports are sketchy and few but enough is known to cause outrage. Police in Petaluma California, roughly 40 miles north of San Francisco, report that an 11 year old […]

If you’re Latino, where you live and the thickness of your accent can make you more prone to be a victim of violence, even murder. The statement is the result […]

Cell phone or land line? The question has become as ordinary as regular or decaf, red or green salsa. Most of us don’t even consider the question because most of […]

Here’s a new twist on an old idea. Slate.com published a piece suggesting that minority communities would fare better politically if they did away with Section 5 of the Voting […]

A new survey says that Latino boys are not as confident about their looks as once thought. So where do I begin? As a former Latino boy, güerco, chilpayate, I […]

It’s about time, that’s all I have to say about it. Oh, and I’m a sucker for a good mystery TV show. Deadline.com reports that a new television series about […]

Sometimes you can’t win for losing. It turns out that LULAC, trying to do a good thing in Farmers Branch, yes that Farmers Branch, in north Texas, is being criticized […]

Not to make anyone feel uncomfortable on this festive week, but the season makes talking about hunger a little more poignant, don’t you think? There’s a thing called food insecurity […]

I wish it weren’t necessary to bring such things up, but we have to keep an eye on these developments. Arizona-type anti-immigrant laws are spreading like mala yerba. The Associated […]

The thing is that here in the State’s we think of voting as a duty, a responsibility, an obligation. But a group of  political activists in Spain have a slightly […]