Califas DREAMers Speak Out

The Los Angeles Times ran an amazing piece over the weekend about courageous college students in California who are standing up and telling the world they need the DREAM Act, […]

Is it possible to pull a warning out of a conundrum? We’ll soon see. Scientists tell us that Mexico is due for a debilitating drought because of global warning. I’m […]

This caught my eye when I first saw it in a corner of the examiner.com. It’s just three paragraphs, more announcement that pronouncement, but it’s worth a follow. The post […]

If you’re Latino, where you live and the thickness of your accent can make you more prone to be a victim of violence, even murder. The statement is the result […]

Well this is an exciting milestone. The University of El Paso’s Chicano Studies program just turned 40 this year. What an amazing accomplishment, especially in these trying times, when places […]

Sometimes you can’t win for losing. It turns out that LULAC, trying to do a good thing in Farmers Branch, yes that Farmers Branch, in north Texas, is being criticized […]

Education, politics, a hunger strike, constitutional law, the cost of sb1070 and a surprising revelation are all part of immigration news across the country. Let me put it in some […]

As a child, our houshold income was a bit better than that of most Mexican American families in Robstown, Texas. But I hardly grew up in privilege. My father worked […]

A friend sent me a link to an NPR story about a band, The Cuban Cowboys, this week and after listening to a few of their songs, I figured it’d […]

The good news is that the usual suspects have lost their appeal, at least within the Latino community. There was a time not too long ago when any reference, opinion […]