Exhibit: Mexican-American Identity In Los Angeles

What looks to be an amazing interactive exhibit will begin on April 16 at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles, California. The exhibit is called “LA Starts […]

There’s an interesting new documentary coming out, “Eloy Take Two.” According to the entry on YouTube: Part One of a three part film —Eloy Take Two is a film by […]

[Editor’s Note: Professor Michael A. Olivas wrote this essay and it’s reposted here with permission.] For some time, I have believed and written that the first Latinos to argue a […]

A man in Orange County was charged with two felony counts of a hate crime battery causing injury this week after he attacked two Latino men who were with their […]

Last year on this day President Barack Obama signed a proclamation officially marking March 31st as Cesar Chavez day. I’ve been reading and remembering this morning. I’m not among the fortunate who knew Cesar, […]

I was riding on the bus today, on my way to work, when I was accosted by the weirdest solicitor of all time. He was a young man, about 17 […]

Drug and immigrant smugglers are taking to the seas, specifically the Pacific Ocean, in the face of stepped-up enforcement on the ground there. The Los Angeles Times reported that the […]

The New York Times created an interactive map that allows users to see county-by-county Census data for the entire country. Click on a county and demographic information for that county […]

Back in the G0od Ol’ Bad Days, my family was part of the working poor caught inside the vortex of the Reagan Revolution. My father worked as a railroad laborer […]

Northern California Latino youth have been battling injunctions that underscore latent fears that all latino youth are gang members. According to the blog Dream Deployed: On March 4th 2011 , […]