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Immigrants Launch Hunger Strike in Texas Detention Center

Mary Mata March 20, 2014

By Priscila Mosqueda, Texas Observer Immigrants in a for-profit detention center in Conroe are refusing to eat to protest conditions at the facility. The protests in Texas follow a similar hunger […]

Full list of overlooked minority Medal of Honor recipients

Mary Mata March 19, 2014

Being Latino Is Not a Crutch

Mary Mata

First Undocumented Lawyer Allowed To Practice In California Uninvited To Speech At San Antonio School

Mary Mata

By Adrian Carrasquillo, BuzzFeed Saint Mary’s Hall seemed pretty excited to have Sergio Garcia — the first undocumented lawyer allowed to practice in the country after a California supreme court ruling — speak at […]

Western Comics: the High Renaissance Moment in the History Mexican Stereotypes

Mary Mata

From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio {source} more info here: http://www.philsp.com/mags/spicy_western_stories.html This article was originally published in The Textmex Galleryblog. William Anthony Nericcio, aka “Memo,” is the Director of San […]

24 Can’t Settle Score: Latino Vets See Racism Despite Medals

Mary Mata

By Bill Briggs, NBCNews One man slithered across an open field toward a manned tank, climbed atop and chucked in a grenade, saving his exposed company. Two others held their […]

Cesar Chavez, the Undocumented and the Chicano Movement

Mary Mata March 18, 2014

By Alfredo Gutierrez, NewsTaco (Cesar Chavez, the Undocumented and the Chicano Movement is excerpted from To Sin Against Hope, by Alfredo Gutierrez, Verso Books, 1010 Jay Street, Brooklyn New York 11201. First […]