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The importance of Chicago’s Latino vote

NewsTaco March 6, 2015

*This is the piece I’ve been wanting to read – how Chuy Garcia’s candidacy in Chicago relates to the larger, national Latino political narative. VL By Esther Cepeda, Washington Post […]

LBJ Linked Latinos, Civil Rights In ‘Selma’ Speech

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Latino rights groups angered by news headline

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Defining candidates beyond their ethnicity

NewsTaco March 5, 2015

*This piece makes very interesting points. The writer, Joe Mathews, an editor at Zócalo Public Square, says that reducing political candidates to their ethnicity, and talking about their ethnicity as […]

House Releases Hostage, Approves Funding For DHS Without Immigration Measures

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*Seems to me that all of the drama leading up to this vote was needless – this is how it was going to end all along. It says a lot […]

Latina legend Gloria Molina suffers landslide loss

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*The take here is that the legendary Gloria Molina lost because of her inability to adapt her campaign to the digital age. I wonder if there’s more to it. I’m […]

Four-Year College Found to Give Completion Edge to Low-Income Students

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*Two-year community college has become the gateway for Latinos to higher education, and this study finds that for lower income students (read here Latinos) four year institutions increase bachelor degree […]