Why Do Latino Evangelical Leaders Support Marco Rubio?

Why Do Latino Evangelical Leaders Support Marco Rubio?

Mary Mata August 25, 2011

By Dee Dee Blase García Founder, National Tequila Party One of the strongest immigration advocates in our nation today is not a man of the cloth, or the evangelical leader […]

Should I Choose Love, Or Becoming A Mother?

Mary Mata

Dear Martha, I’m so scared. I love my partner but my partner confessed that he has a disease that is degenerative and eventually can not bear children. I love him […]

Anna María Chavez Named New Girl Scouts CEO

Mary Mata

Girl Scouts of the USA has selected Mexican-American Anna Maria Chavez as its new CEO. As mentioned previously in News Taco, the organization is stepping up efforts to recruit more […]

Mother Punishes Son With Chile, Could Go To Jail

Mary Mata August 24, 2011

An Alaska woman was convicted of misdemeanor child abuse after she poured hot sauce in the mouth of her adopted Russian son after he lied to her. Not only that, […]

How East LA’s Bodie Street Lost Its Name

Mary Mata

I grew up in a street filled with kids with little or no inhibitions. There were about six or seven of us, which by today’s standards would be a gang, but […]

Learning To Clean The Beans: A Latino Rite Of Passage

Mary Mata

I remember being a little girl on my tip toes peeking over to see what my mom was doing, making very methodical sounds, looking very concentrated, staring over a pile […]

America Has A New Hero, And He’s Undocumented

NewsTaco August 23, 2011

This is a major disruption. Just when you thought you had the immigration issue sorted, boxed, wrapped and tidy, an undocumented worker does something heroic. Now we have to re-sort everything. It happened […]

Latino Students Scoring Higher On ACT Test

Mary Mata August 17, 2011

Standardized tests have been a thorn in my side for most of my life — I simply am not a good test taker — but it’s not just me. If […]

Alabama Immigration Law Isn’t Working – No One Knows Why

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What’s happening in Alabama that has experts and educators scratching their heads about Latinos and what was expected of them? Pretty much everyone who thought they knew what would happen […]

Smog In Our Cities And Parks

Mary Mata August 16, 2011

By Pete Altman Are your kids safe from air pollution? It depends on where you live, what’s nearby and where you vacation. Kids and their developing bodies are more vulnerable […]