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New TV Show About Undocumented Immigrant Private Investigator
It’s about time, that’s all I have to say about it. Oh, and I’m a sucker for a good mystery TV show. Deadline.com reports that a new television series about […]
Música: The Cuban Cowboys
A friend sent me a link to an NPR story about a band, The Cuban Cowboys, this week and after listening to a few of their songs, I figured it’d […]
Latino Voters Emerge as Political Wild Card
I don’t know if it’s the need to prop legs under the Latino vote story, or that a week after the election there are fewer ways to package it, but […]
Young Latino Filmmaker Sees the Power of Movies
Ralph Lopez will tell you that he — wanted to be in the movie business since he was in the third grade — as the guy who blew stuff up. […]
Author of SB1070 Runs for Kansas Office
Kris Kobach, also known as one of the authors of Arizona’s SB 1070 anti-immigrant bill, is the Republican candidate for Secretary of State in Kansas. He’s running on a platform […]
Paperless: DREAM Act Students in the NYTimes
The New York Times ran a long piece about students the DREAM Act would benefit last week, even though the writer made sure to point out the same lame arguments […]
Was ‘Don’t Vote’ Campaign Real? Or a Way to Keep Getting Paid?
With the mid-term elections nearing, everything is heating up and things are getting intense, and in some cases, a bit overwrought. Check here, here and here, if you don’t believe […]
Foundation head calls on Corporate America to quit sponsoring hate speech
It was popular revulsion that took immigrant-basher and über hypocrite Lou Dobbs off national TV. It is time to do it again. It is time to force corporate America to […]
Saying Latinos live longer than whites or blacks is like telling the miserable that the meek will inherit the earth. They may feel better but it doesn’t change their reality.
It is well established that Latinos are the population group most likely to get inadequate health care and suffer from chronic maladies like diabetes and coronary afflictions. A recent government […]
Watch: We’re about to get a decade named after Hispanics … again!
I knew it was going to happen. After all, it has happened every decade since 1970, that I know. Last month, the Economist discovered Latino voters. This month, it was […]