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The Trouble With Enrolling In The Affordable Care Act

Mary Mata September 12, 2013

By Jude Joffe-Block, Kate Sheehy, Tristan Ahtone, Fronteras Across the Southwest, groups are canvassing neighborhoods to inform uninsured people about how to sign up for coverage under Obama’s Affordable Care Act beginning Oct. […]

How Crossing The Border Can Get Your Laptop Confiscated

Mary Mata

Clorado Latina recalled over gun control support; says she has “not one iota of regret”

Mary Mata

Carlos Menchaca’s primary victory lifts Mexican New Yorkers’ political hopes

Mary Mata

By Albor Ruiz, New York Daily News Sunset Park played host to history on Tuesday as a young political upstart vanquished an entrenched incumbent City Councilwoman. But this primary victory […]

Carlos Santana, Martina Arroyo to receive Kennedy Center Honors

Mary Mata

By Brett Zonger, Associated Press/Seattle Post Intelligencer WASHINGTON (AP) — Acclaimed actress Shirley MacLaine and four musicians spanning rock, jazz and opera — Billy Joel, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancockand Martina Arroyo — will receive this year’s Kennedy Center […]

September 11 Changed Me

Mary Mata September 11, 2013

By María de la Luz Reyes, Hispanic Link When I was a little girl the mere sound of a fire truck or a police car would elicit an automatic knee-jerk […]

Chicanos movement revisited changes that helped all

Mary Mata

By Eduardo Stanley, Voxxi “My birth certificate of 1943 says my race is ‘Mexican’!,” explains amused Dr. Jorge Garcia, a veteran of the Chicano Movement in California’s Central Valley. “In 1965, […]