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Hispanic interns try to diversify audience for bird watching

NewsTaco May 12, 2016

*This is about shortening distances. It’s a long way from a knee-jerk “¿Andas mirando pajaritos?” to traveling the length of the western seaboard, birdwatching, making the country’s national parks accessible […]

How decades-old discrimination against Latino kids continues today – and what you can do about it

NewsTaco May 3, 2016

People Keep Saying Higher Education Will Solve Socio-Ecponomic Inequality—It Won’t

NewsTaco April 26, 2016

Sotomayor accuses colleagues of trying to ‘wish away’ racial inequality

NewsTaco April 25, 2016

*Justice Sonia Sotomayor went to the mat to counter Justice Roberts’ well known adage that “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on […]

Urban Heat Islands amplify global climate change impacts for Latinos

NewsTaco April 21, 2016

*Take away: “place matters in identifying the most vulnerable populations” to climate change. Read this piece. Inner cities, where most U.S. Latinos live and work, are heat islands, paved-over, radiating […]

Want to build the second century of American conservation? Look to César Chávez.

NewsTaco April 12, 2016

*César Chavez’s son writes about his father as a guide for Latinos as the future of American conservation.  It makes good sense for Latinos to take the lead of the […]

Black and Latino parents want better teachers and harder classes for their kids

NewsTaco April 11, 2016

*More proof that, contrary to the myth believed by many non-Latinos, the Latino culture emphasizes education. Another truth told in this story is that Latino parents believe white kids get […]