For High Schoolers Considering Science Majors In College

By Yessenia Gutierrez, Being Latino As we’ve recently pointed out, Latinos are making enormous headway in educational attainment, but we still lag behind non-Hispanic whites. While there are certainly institutional […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco This story comes from the New Jersey Star-Ledger, and it caught my attention for several reasons: first because this is still happening in our country and […]

By Melaine Mendez-Gonzales, NewsTaco I’m a mom with a desire to teach my own children a language that I am still learning myself. With my boys being young, the most […]

By Maitri Pamo, Being Latino The news broke her heart. Even though my cousin was well on her way to becoming the first person in our family to go to […]

By Voxxi News Stephanie Bravo, a Mexican-American student from Stanford University, has created StudentMentor.org, a free online mentoring program for minority students. “I didn’t have anybody there to really guide me in […]

Thursday August 2, 2012 Latinos on the Rise (The New York Times):  Cruz’s victory came on the very same day that Democrats announced that the keynote speaker at their upcoming […]

Wednesday August 1, 2012 GOP holds advantage over Democrats in electing Latino politicians (Los Angeles Times):  Democrats might have selected the keynote speaker at their convention to rally Latino voters, but […]

By Griselda Nevárez, Voxxi Alfonso Chavez was a senior at Tucson High School when the Arizona State Legislature passed in 2010 a law banning the teaching of ethnic studies in […]

Tuesday July 31, 2012 Dems pick first Hispanic for convention keynote (Associated Press/U.S. News & World Report): Marking a first for Hispanics, the Democratic party has chosen the mayor of San Antonio to […]

PRESS RELEASE Washington, D.C. — While Hispanic Americans are divided over whether the right of religious liberty is being threatened in America today, Hispanic Americans overall (64 percent), including Hispanic Catholics […]