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The True Story of the Latino Kids Who Beat MIT’s Best Robots, Coming Soon to Theaters

NewsTaco December 5, 2014

*An uplifting Friday morning read. I’m anxious to see this. VL By WIRED Ten years ago, contributing editor Joshua Davis received a press release that gave him pause. Clumsily formatted […]

Aztec manuscript under the microscope

NewsTaco December 4, 2014

Can Ethnic Studies Improve Student Achievement? Researcher Says Yes

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Latino Support for Hillary in 2016 Depends on Her Stance on Executive Action on Immigration

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*Interesting. Yesterday USA Today ran a story about Latino fundraisers and their support for Hillary. This poll seems to support the idea that Latinos are waiting to hear from Hillary […]

Chris Rock on Being Mexican in Hollywood: “There’s a Slave State in L.A.”

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*This is a conversation we’ve been having for a long time. What’s new about this Chris Rock essay is that Chris Rock wrote it. By that I mean the incisive, blunt, […]

In the Texas borderlands, ‘a new vision of America is being born’

NewsTaco December 3, 2014

*This piece speaks to me. I’m a borderland brat, and there’s so much the borderland experience can teach us in these days of searching for identity. If you’re from the […]

A Deportee’s Story

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*We lose so much human context when we argue about immigration only in terms of politics. This is a short piece, but it’s filled with humanity. VL By Sam Quiñones, […]