Latino Influence & the Politics of Immigration in the 2014 U.S. Senate Elections
Latino Influence & the Politics of Immigration in the 2014 U.S. Senate Elections
*Good piece, as always, from Latino Decisions. It’s a good read if you’re into political minutiae – x’s and o’s. Cutting to the chase, Damore says Latinos didn’t have a […]
Boxer Enriquez, the Mexican Mafia, LAPD – What’s the problem?
*Although nefarious, the Mexican Mafia is one of So Cal’s important institutions. Sam Quiñones tell us we need to know how it works. VL By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog […]
Why education reporting is REALLY so boring
*This is good. I agree that education reporting could use a kick-start. But reporting thrives on conflict, and positive stories don’t get the same reader attention as problems, crime and […]
The House on Mango Street Goes to Trial: #MayaVsAZ
*This is important. The legal battle against the Arizona law used to prohibit Mexican-American studies in Tucson will come to a head on January 12, at the Ninth Circuit Court […]
Stop assigning schools by students’ addresses
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco This fall will be the first in which white students are no longer the majority population in U.S. public schools. Although this demographic shift had been […]
DACA Day: Eligible Undocumented Youth Stay for College and Work
*Good information for any DACA eligible students you may know. DREAMer Day! VL By John Michaelson, Public News Service AUSTIN, Texas – The tens of thousands of young people without documentation […]
‘Lemon Grove Incident’ Remembered 80 Years Later
*This post is several years old. I stumbled on it and realized how few U.S. Latinos have heard of this, and how that should change. There are young U.S. Latinos […]
Texas State Board of Education Sabotages Ethnic Studies Textbooks.
PRESS RELEASE Mexican Americans Stand Up Against Institutionalized Racism. Houston, TX (July 17, 2014)-It took The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) only 3 months to turn proclamation 2016 into […]
‘A Most Imperfect Union,’ a retelling of U.S. history by Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz
*Brilliant! Toss out the pale-male history texts, here’s a truer narrative from a “red, non-white and blue perspective.” This is what Stavans wrote about this work: “a single, controlling leitmotif: the […]
When a Chicago Public Schools teacher smells marijuana
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco At tomorrow’s Chicago Public Schools Board meeting, Barbara Byrd-Bennett will present revisions to the Student Code of Conduct that, according a CPS press release, “recognize that […]
