Cornel West, Latinos Are Also Disappointed In Obama

Cornel West, Latinos Are Also Disappointed In Obama

Mary Mata May 31, 2011

What do President Obama, Professor Cornel West, Latinos and Immigration Reform have to do with each other?  A lot!  A great deal, actually! Last week Professor Cornel West, an eminent […]

NAACP Evolves To Include Latino Leadership

Mary Mata March 31, 2011

The NAACP — National Association for the Advancement of Colored People — which bills itself as the oldest civil rights organization in the country, is growing and changing to include Latino […]

VIDEO: Pitting Immigrants, African-Americans Against Each Other

Mary Mata March 30, 2011

African-Americans and immigrants are often pitted against each other by politicians in this country trying to convince us all that there’s only so much to go around, and so we […]

GOP Tries To Spark Black-Brown Fight

Mary Mata March 2, 2011

Republicans were charged by Black lawmakers on Wednesday of stoking tensions between the African American and Latino communities by arguing during a hearing that if it were not for illegal […]

Book Explores History Of Black Latinos In The U.S.

Mary Mata February 17, 2011

An interesting new book has been released just in time for Black History Month: The Afro-Latin@ Reader edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores. Here’s the book blurb from […]