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How You Can Help The Immigrant Children At The U.S. Border
*I’m glad the good folks at Our Tiempo did this. I too have become weary of the pointless politics and the ranting about the immigrant minors. This is a list […]
Net Neutrality’s Brain Drain and Distraction
*This is a case against net neutrality. It’s an argument that says that regulating the internet like a utility would slow its speed, innovation and growth. It argues that the […]
Deep Familial Connections to Land Drives Hispanic Conservation Attitudes
*This makes sense. Conservation is a Latino legacy. It’s a part of our history, a central plot of our story. We’re not “joining” an environmental movement, we lead with our […]
My Public Lands: Nuestra Tierra Comunal
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Recently, the Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) coordinated a program to get 100 Latino youth out to Joshua Tree National Park. This was in conjunction with the […]
Rosario Dawson Honored to Play Dolores Huerta in Cesar Chavez Biopic
By Hispanically Speaking News In the film biography “Cesar Chavez,” Rosario Dawson had the honor of playing one of the women who admires him most, Dolores Huerta – the righthand […]
Texas, Kansas and El Pendejo Demagogo
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco I learned today that the states of Kansas and Texas have at least one thing in common. Aside from both being states of the union they […]
Hilda Solis “Climate Change Must Be A Priority In 2014″
By Hilda Solis, Latinovations Some of my fondest childhood memories are of family trips to the San Gabriel Mountains for hiking, picnicking and breathing fresh, clean air — a welcome […]
Banned Books Club
By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA When the Arizona Department of Education banned 90 books from its public schools for being “subversive,” ban opponents struck back. They set up underground libraries […]
How Education Expert Views Miss the Mark on Low Income Students
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco As my students develop their argumentative writing, I push them to ask themselves “What are the implications of my argument?” In other words, if our high-school […]
Don’t be afraid to speak Spanish at school
By John Benson, Voxxi If you’re a Spanish speaking student the ACLU has a message for you: You shouldn’t be afraid to speak Spanish in school. A Texas middle school principal is […]