East LA Community Leader Richard S. Amador Sr. Dies At 75
East LA Community Leader Richard S. Amador Sr. Dies At 75
Richard S. Amador Sr., founder of the CHARO organization, a non-profit organization that aided the Latino community in East Los Angeles passed away on September 19 in the L.A. suburb […]
NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Sept.24 – Oct. 2, 2011
There were a lot of stark contrasts this week on our weekly NewsTaco roundup. For example, while we featured a piece by Salomón Baldenegro about Arizona’s racist stance on ethnic […]
Race At Center Of Creating Latino Majority LA County Seat
You can slice it pretty much any way you want, but it appears as though race was very squarely front and center in the recent fight to create another Latino-majority […]
Operation Hold The Line, 18 Years Later
About 18 years ago then-El Paso Border Patrol Sector Chief Silvestre Reyes (the El Paso Congressman since 1996), started an operation to deter immigration that came to be called Operation Hold […]
LA School Named After Carlos Santana
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board voted this week to rename a school that will focus on the arts Carlos Santana Arts Academy; it was previously called Valley Region Elementary School […]
Tackling Latinos In Popular Culture
Professor William Anthony Nericcio, aka “Memo,” is the Director of San Diego State University’s ever-evolving MALAS program, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also serves on the […]
Of Carne Asada, Crime And Family In East LA
The summer of 1988 was a memorable one in my neighborhood. We still lived in that yellow house on Bodie Street in East LA. The sun still managed to leave evidence […]
LA Poetry Night Includes Students, Drugs, Grit And Love
On Friday, September 16 Homeboy Industries played host to “Poesía Para La Gente,” presented by Avenue 50 Studio’s monthly La Palabra Poetry reading series. The event, sponsored by The James […]
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 […]
Latino Kids Better Off In Prison. How Do We Get More In?
El Guapo prides himself on having low standards and a knack for hyperbole. With that said, read the following — the greatest thing ever written by a human being. So, […]
