What’s LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Hiding In Rubén Salazar Case?

After more than 15 years of asking to see the records pertaining to the killing of Rubén Salazar, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has agreed to let reporters see […]

Rubén Salazar was a journalist critical of the powers that be in Los Angeles when he was hit in the head with a gas canister fired by a Los Angeles […]

Latinos across the country — and even outside of it — love the Los Angeles Lakers. So much so, in fact, that the NBA’s Latino marketing strategy is centered around […]

[Editor’s Note: Author Oscar Barajas works in Los Angeles and will be writing dispatches for us from East LA.] The hardest thing about living in East Los Angeles is not […]

Rubén Salazar was a Latino journalist in Los Angeles who was a loud critic of institutions that mistreated Latinos in that area and, mysteriously, in 1970 he was hit in […]

Sylvia Mendez, the subject of what’s commonly called the “Latino version” of the Brown vs. Board of Education case in California, was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack […]

Tan Nguyen ran as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 against then-incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez, and was just sentenced to a year and a day in […]

The Houston Chronicle posted a very good piece about the infamous virtual fence along the US-Mexico border. The fence is at the heart of many political issues and mine fields, […]

What’s a pocho, or a pocha for that matter? It’s a question that’s not confusing to me, but my piece last week about how dating Latinos doesn’t make me racist […]

The City of Compton, snack-dab in the middle of the sprawling Los Angeles metro area, is considering changing it’s voting habits – they might be changing from at large representation […]