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Smoke Free Texas: Health & Economic Impact

Mary Mata March 21, 2013

By Juan Flores, La Fe Policy Research and Education Center Every day, thousands of Texans’ lives are put in danger as a result of secondhand smoke exposure in the workplace. Texas Latinos, […]

Latin America Green News

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Aging Between 2 Worlds: Latinos Thrive on Faith, Optimism, Tradition

Mary Mata

What The University of Texas Affirmative Action Case Is Really About

Mary Mata March 20, 2013

By Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as […]

Congress Steps Up with National STEM Competition

Mary Mata

By Maria Cardona, Latinovations Former Astronaut Jose Hernandez makes a strong case for expanding opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and computer science fields in a recent op-ed […]

Aging Between Two Worlds – Latino, Old and Poor on the TX Border

Mary Mata

By Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez, New America Media First of two articles.  BROWNSVILLE, Texas–Guadalupe Tobias did not live a drastic change when she emigrated to South Texas more than four decades […]

Not a Lack of Latino Lit for Kids, But a Lack of Awareness

Mary Mata

By Shelley Diaz, School Library Journal Librarians who serve children in predominantly Latino communities were shocked this past December to read a New York Times article claiming that there is a dearth of Latino […]