Texas Non-Profit Offers Scholarships To White Men Only

A Texas non-profit, Former Majority Association for Equality, has begun to offer $500 scholarships to a group they contend is discriminated against when it comes to funding for higher education: […]

UCLA is set to shut down the independent Spanish and Portuguese Department to merge all language departments into one single department, irregardless of how popular any given language may be […]

[Editor’s Note: The following is a press release from the ACLU.] While the world celebrates the democratic revolution in Egypt, major violations of basic human rights are occurring in our own […]

The U.S. will need one million Latinos with four- and two-year degrees for the next 14 years to catch up to goals set by non-profits and organizations like the Hispanic […]

[Editor’s Note: Author Oscar Barajas works in Los Angeles and will be writing dispatches for us from East LA.] The hardest thing about living in East Los Angeles is not […]

States across the country are slashing budgets left and right in an effort to deal with the recession, one unfortunate outcome may be less Latinos able to attend college. The […]

Sylvia Mendez, the subject of what’s commonly called the “Latino version” of the Brown vs. Board of Education case in California, was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack […]

I’m not sure if anybody out in the Inter-webs is reporting on the US Latino diaspora as such – a diaspora. I find it fascinating. For reasons having to do […]

You can put this in the trying-to-stop-a-fire-with-a-flamethrower file. The University of Texas at Austin, funded in large part by state funds, has released data of a study that argues that […]

Presente.org has created a poster to try to bring attention to the Brisenia Flores trial, currently being deliberated by a jury. We have written about the trial previously, and are […]