Obama Woos Latinos, Ignores Them At The Same Time

My colleague Victor Landa wrote a great piece on Latinos and the ways in which President Obama is trying to outreach to them yesterday. Here’s an excerpt: The president chose to talk […]

President Barack Obama, seemingly surprised by Census results, has begun to court Latino voters around the issue of education. Last week 6,000 less people applied for unemployment, perhaps hinting at […]

President Barack Obama gave a speech about Libya last night in which he clarified the U.S.’s role there, even as a woman who was claimed she was raped by Moammar […]

The Census numbers are out for California and there’re two big stories to talk about; first, that Latino children are now the majority in California, and second, that as Latinos […]

People across the country commemorated the 46th anniversary of the Selma, Alabama march known as “Bloody Sunday.” The GOP is looking into how Muslims are a danger to the U.S., […]

[Editor’s Note: This story was written jointly by myself and Pa’Lante Latino’s Christina Saenz] Carlos Galindo, a 51-year-old Latino in Arizona, was at the state senate building Wednesday when he was […]

A new poll shows Latino support for Republicans is very low. The survey of Latinos voters, conducted by impreMedia and Latino Decisions, found that: 9% would vote for a Republican […]

by Bob Moser from the Texas Observer, where this story was first published. I was 12 when I fell for Ronald Reagan. It was the spring of 1976, when the […]

Representative democracy sometimes isn’t, well, all that representative. The U.S. is set to become Latino-ized, in the sense that nearly 1 in 6 people here will be counted as Latinos […]

[Editor’s Note: This is a repost from Pa’lante Latino and was written by Victoria Cepeda] It was 1966 when Mexican-American civil rights activist Jesús Salas et. al. founded “Obreros Unidos”, an independent […]