The Bully And The Latino Nerd

 By Eres Nerd The middle school day ended.  Mis friends and I walked to the school bus across the dirt field, which in a wetter climate would be covered with grass. It […]

By Melanie Mendez-Gonzales If you have read my Story of Qué, you know that I did not grow up speaking Spanish and I’m still not proficient today. Even though I […]

By Ray Salazar When I taught seventh grade a year and a half ago, some of my twelve-year-old students had fancier phones than I did. I should not have been […]

Thursday July 26, 2012 Latino voters’ enthusiasm rises, but still lags behind 2008 (The Los Angeles Times):  Latino voters’ interest in the election has begun to rise, but still lags […]

Wednesday July 25, 2012 Hispanic Ph.D.S Jump As Fastest-Growing Minority Gains (Bloomberg):  The number of Hispanics with doctorates jumped 161 percent from 1990 to 2010, almost double the non-Hispanic rate […]

Monday July 23, 2012 Latinos react to Aurora movie theater shooting (NBCLatino):   A gunman, identified as 24-year-old James Holmes, allegedly shot and killed 12 people and injured 50 in a midnight […]

Friday July 20, 1012 In Arizona, “America’s toughest” sheriff on trial over discrimination claims (Reuters): Arizona’s controversial Joe Arpaio, who calls himself America’s toughest sheriff, went on trial Thursday in a […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor A resolution to un-ban the Chicano literature books that had been previously banned by the Tucson Unified School District has been placed on the board’s […]

Tuesday July 18, 2012 Latinos And The Online Campaign: Where Are They? (kpbs):  It’s conventional wisdom that Latinos will play a key role in the November elections, especially in the West. Democrats and Republicans are […]

By Daniel Cubias, Being Latino A year ago, I wrote about how the Great Recession hit Latinos hard. At the time, I was hopeful that the worst was behind us. Perhaps that […]