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Q&A: Napolitano On Diversity, Academics and the Undocumented at U.C.

Mary Mata November 6, 2013

By Peter Schurmann/Video by Jacob Simas, New America Media Ed. Note: In September former secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano took over as president of the University of California, the first-ever woman […]

How Unpaid internships Affect the Latino Community

Mary Mata November 4, 2013

The Identity Crisis of Mexican Americans

Mary Mata October 25, 2013

8 students receive Carlos Guerra Scholarships

NewsTaco October 24, 2013

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Eight students from the Art, Communications and Theatre Department of Texas A&M at Kingsville were chosen this month as recipients of the Carlos Guerra Scholarship. This is […]

Mexican American Studies Books Un-Banned In Arizona

Mary Mata

By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices The Tucson Unified School district voted Tuesday night to un-ban seven books from classrooms, two years after suspending a progressive Mexican American Studies curriculum […]

Lesbian teen and her straight ally make Texas history as homecoming queen and queen

Mary Mata

By Emily Bauucum, NBCLatino/WOAI EAGLE PASS, TX — Instead of a homecoming king and queen, a high school in Eagle Pass, Texas crowned a queen and queen. The two queens […]

Q&A: Cultural Fluency Key to Improving Latino Student Success

Mary Mata October 22, 2013

By New America Media Ed. Note: Latino students comprise over half the K-12 student population in California, and while graduation rates for Latinos are on the rise, a persistent achievement gap […]