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5 Tips To Improve Your Job Search
If you’re Latino and looking for a job you’re 1 in 10 (actually you’re 1.1 in 10, I rounded). This recession has been harder on Latinos than it has on […]
Chilean Independence Celebration In CA Includes Food, Dancing
By David Tapia, fundi2.com San Bernardino, California — On September 18, 1810, Chile declared it’s Independence from Spain. This year,2011, marks the 201st Anniversary of this South American country. In […]
San Antonio Names Street after Cesar Chavez
After months of legal hubbub and protest, and just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month, the city of San Antonio has officially named one of its streets in honor of […]
News Taco Weekly Roundup, September 12-17, 2011
Of course this week was the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, so we had a few posts on that, including: Census data, a story about loving and leaving Mexico, trying […]
César Chávez’s Home Now A National Historic Place
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced this week that Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz (La Paz) – the place where labor leader Cesar E. Chavez lived and led […]
Places Not To Drive With A Confederate Texas License Plate
By Cindy Casares The Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans recently petitioned the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a license plate featuring the Confederate flag. An April vote by […]
Mexican Americans The Next Wave Of CA Winemakers
So Mexican-Americans are a rising subset of winemakers in California, according to a new report and the success of a newly formed organization, Napa Valley Mexican-American Vintners Association. Interesante, ¿no? The […]
New Jersey Library Holds First Spanish Story Hour
By Efrain Nieves & Victoria Cepeda One parent’s crusade to fight ignorance and instill in her young son a sense of pride of his origins led to the first Story […]
Bien Hecho: First Latina NJ District Court Judge
Judge Esther Salas has become the first Latina appointed to be a U.S. District Court judge in Newark, New Jersey. She’s of Cuban heritage and, according to a story from […]
The Two Marco Rubios On Immigration
By Mario Solis-Marich Latino voters now know that they have arrived. The nation’s largest minority block of voters is now seen as worthy of tokenism. Proof is in the person […]