Supreme Court to Rule on Civil Rights Cases in Coming Weeks

Victor Landa, NewsTaco The U. S. Supreme Court will be handing down its decisions on two important civil rights cases soon, one possibly as soon as Monday, May 13. Both […]

By Richard L. Hasen, Reuters If the court strikes Section 5, the big question is: What comes next? A sketch of what may happen and what’s at stake. Click on picture to […]

By Peter Malof, Public News Service EL PASO, Texas – Immigrant advocates in Texas are marking International Human Rights Day today by decrying what they call “systematic violations” of international law […]

By Marc Morial, Other Words We’ve been hearing about it for years, and now the time has come. In May, the Census Bureau announced that for the first time, the birth […]

San Antonio, Texas — Outgoing Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair and Texas Congressman Charlie Gonzalez is currently working on a graceful exit, given that he has chosen not to seek reelection, […]

By Justin Cox, American Civil Liberties Union On March 1, the ACLU was in court challenging the constitutionality of both Alabama and Georgia’s discriminatory anti-immigrant laws. Of the five Arizona-inspired […]

By Eliseo Medina, SEIU Alabama’s show-me-your-papers law, HB56, threatens to turn the clock back to a time when hardworking men and women were persecuted because of the color of their […]

Born in New Mexico in 1906, George I. Sánchez spent his life advocating for a better education system for Latinos and minorities in the Southwest. Born into a poor family in Arizona, […]

Cecilia Denogean Esquer was an influential Chicana activists from Arizona, who spent her life fighting for Latino rights. Born in Superior, Arizona in 1942, Esquer went from being a high school […]

By Marc Morial, OtherWords.org Many prominent conservative politicians are making outrageous statements targeted at minority citizens this campaign season. They’re saying spurious things, like implying that African Americans prefer food stamps […]