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Ricardo Sanchez To Run For Senate In Texas San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro: Immigration Initiative Soon Mexican & Mexican-American Are Not The Same Thing Analysis: Senate Democrats Re-Introduce The DREAM […]

You know what really gets my goat? When I either hear or read or receive comments equating Latinos with Mexico. Or when something I write about my experience as a […]

If the death of Cesar Chavez in 1993 ushered my rebirth as a Chicano,  then the Zapatista uprising of 1994 only cemented it. Before that moment, I considered myself to […]

She appeared mysteriously in April when men in hardhats seemed to be hard at some sort of official-looking work, installing a 10 or 12-foot glass mosaic of La Virgen de […]

I remember the first time I read Oscar Zeta Acosta’s super-Chicano novel, “The Revolt Of The Cockroach People.” I was in eighth grade, during silent sustained reading, and happened to […]

We at News Taco have been doing our best to keep you informed of redistricting battles affecting Latino population areas (really redistricting affects all Latinos everywhere, but that’s a pretty […]

Dora The Explorer has done wonders to introduce throngs of young ones to Spanish and the idea that people unlike themselves have valuable things to share. But now, thanks to […]

Somos Republicans founder DeeDee García Blase has taken up the reins of the so-called Tequila Party movement that originated in Nevada to combat the Tea Party and launched today in an […]

Imagine La Malinche as a feminist — or El Valiente as a woman who’s coming out — or better yet, imagine La Rosa as a girl with pink hair. These […]

University of California at Davis Professor Adela de la Torre recently received a grant to help Latino kids in that state with obesity and related problems. She’s an agricultural economic and […]