Love and Rockets rides again: ‘we influenced a whole lot of cartoonists’
Love and Rockets rides again: ‘we influenced a whole lot of cartoonists’
*Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez are back with a 35th anniversary edition of their comic saga Love and Rockets. If you’ve managed to miss it until now, here’s your chance to […]
Ancient Mayan languages are creating problems for today’s immigration courts
*Aside from the backlog of 500,000 cases in immigration courts, there’s this. VL By Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times The day Vinicio Nicolas found out whether he would be allowed to […]
The Forgotten History of the Mexican-American Team That Ruled Texas HS Basketball In the 1940s
*What a wonderful piece about a storied barrio high school basketball team from the 1940’s. San Antonio’s Lanier High School is the least likely place you’d find state champions back […]
Latinos Deserve Total Equality, Not Political Pandering
*What’s the issue here?: “. . . the Latino vote is important when there is someone to elect. But for the remainder of the time, our community is not tapped for […]
Latino Voters Are Tired of Dating…We’re Ready for a Commitment
*The gist of the piece: “Parties, candidates, donors, and funders need to focus on making Latinos full participants in our democracy for the years to come, not just in the […]
The politics of American history
*Which great America is Trump talking about? The same one Michelle Obama mentioned, when slaves built mansions? Or the one Eva Longoria spoke of, of Texas-Mexicanos nine generations past? VL […]
Clinton-linked Latino group has email hacked
*Funny thing, the Latino Victory Project emailed people to tell them about the email hack . . . They wrote: don’t open our email. VL By Rebecca Saransky, The Hill […]
Jobs Report: Latino Unemployment Rate Falls in July
*Latino unemployment dropped from 5.8 to 5.4 percent. VL By Brian Latimer, NBC News July surpassed expectations for job growth in the U.S., and although the national unemployment rate stayed […]
The knotty issue of immigration as revealed in John Lennon’s deportation case
*Here’s the short of it: President Nixon wanted to deport John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and that started a long legal battle that was never resolved – Lennon died before […]
George P. Bush Tells Texas GOP to Back Trump
*I say it’s a Texas thing, and that’s all I’m saying. It’s a quick read, but that’s about all there is to it. VL By Madeline Conway and John Reynolds, The […]
