A friendship for the ages

*Kerry Kennedy writes about her father’s (Bobby Kennedy) friendship with Cesar Chavez. It’s a piece about a special bond between two visionaries, about their legacy and the work to be […]

*It depends on where you’re listening. We’ve read and posted many stories about recent Latino victims of police violence – Jessica Hernandez, Antonio Zambrano-Montes, Ruben García Villalpando. But we’ve also read […]

A smart look at the President’s executive action, U.S. labor history and the emergence of El Nuevo South. VL By Eduardo Diaz, Director, Smithsonian Latino Center Like many in this country, Priscilla […]

*The number of Latinos in the South is growing. Eduardo Diaz took a tour through places like Birmingham, Charlotte and Atlanta and he tells us that not only are there […]

*Useful information. VL By Lorne Matalon, Fronteras Desk Sheriffs in Texas recently testified at state hearings that Department of Public Safety state troopers in border counties are overly aggressive against citizens pulled […]

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media There’s been as much myth as fact regarding John F. Kennedy’s civil rights legacy in the more than fifty years before, during and especially […]

By David Edwards, The Raw Story Conservative columnist George Will asserted on Sunday that single mothers actually presented a bigger threat to minority communities than a lack of voting rights. […]

By Jacquellena Carrero, NBCLatino Almost fifty years after the March on Washington, a different kind of civil rights battle is taking center stage. As the nation commemorates the 50th anniversary of […]

By Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante Spoiler alert: The life of Civil Rights lawyer Gus Garcia doesn’t have a happy ending, but the true story of our people lies between the […]

By Mónica Ortiz Uribe, Latino USA While Congress debates provisions for a new guest worker program, elderly Mexican farmworkers called braceros protest about retirement money they say they’re owed. Mónica Ortiz […]