Tucson USD To Un-ban Chicano Books

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor A resolution to un-ban the Chicano literature books that had been previously banned by the Tucson Unified School District has been placed on the board’s […]

Tuesday July 17, 2012 Group creates Web site spur Hispanics to vote (Fox News Latino): A group of professionals has launched a bilingual Web site that is aimed at spurring Hispanics […]

By Esther J. Cepeda, Voxxi If you live in an affluent community with a high performing school district and are familiar with the pressure-cooker environment of endless test-prepping, extracurricular overload […]

Thursday July 12, 2012 Mitt Romney NAACP Speech Shows He Failed To Learn Father’s Civil Rights Lessons, Black Caucus Says (Huffington Post):  Prominent members of the Congressional Black Caucus gave […]

By Oscar Brajas Believe it or not, there was one point where I was the most popular kid in school. Both adults and children hung on my every word. The […]

By Victor Escalante The Latino identity has been shaped to a large part by the environment of the past and the flux of the present day. In some respects, it’s […]

By Reyna Jacqueline Peña, Gozamos On Thursday, June 28th, Gozamos joined The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for “I Define Myself: Undocumented and Unafraid.”  The Museum collaborated with the national Coming Out of the Shadows campaign […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor It hasn’t yet been a month and already the scammers have come out. There are reports that DREAMers have been targeted by immigration scams; unscrupulous […]

By Maitri Pamo, Being Latino “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name/Would smell just as sweet.” I would like to think that I […]

By Voxxi Hispanic children tested for residue of flame retardant chemicals had higher levels in their blood stream than non-Hispanic white children, revealed a study published in the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). The […]