Thanksgiving Made Possible By Immigrant Farm Workers

Thanksgiving Made Possible By Immigrant Farm Workers

Mary Mata November 22, 2012

By Roque Planas, Huffnigton Post Latino Voices When giving thanks for a Thanksgiving meal, there’s one group who deserves a disproportionate amount of gratitude: the farm workers of the United […]

Thanksgiving, and Don Juan de Oñate

NewsTaco November 21, 2012

By Delfin Carbonell Basset, Voxxi Daniel Boone is an American legend. Don Juan de Oñate is an unknown native-born Explorador. Why the difference? Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) says in his Heroes, Hero Worship […]

Mass. To Grant In-State Tuition To DREAMers

NewsTaco November 20, 2012

By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices Undocumented immigrants who qualify for deferred deportation will get tuition breaks at public colleges and universities inMassachusetts. An unnamed official told The Boston […]

Día de la Revolución: Pancho Villa and My Grandfather

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By Tony Castro, Voxxi My grandfather, Jose Angel Castro, was 14 when he first met Pancho Villa who had fled to the northern state of Chihuahua after killing an officer […]

Our Pre-Mayflower Thanksgivings

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By Miguel Perez, Hidden Hispanic Heritage For Latino immigrants, no other American holiday is more precious than Thanksgiving. “El dia de accion de gracias,” as we know it in Spanish, […]

Mexican Bimbo May Save Hostess Twinkies

Mary Mata November 19, 2012

By Huffington Post Latino Voices Grupo Bimbo, a Mexican company that is the world’s largest bread baker, might hold the key to saving the Twinkie from extinction in a Hostess liquidation. […]

“TANKSGIVEN” School Sign Goes Viral and It Gets Ugly

Mary Mata

By Latino Rebels File this one under the “unfortunate” files. As reported by the local Brownsville press, a school sign about the Thanksgiving holiday has gone viral on Facebook and it […]

Illinois Wants to Give Licenses to the Undocumented

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By Hector Luis Alamo Jr., Being Latino Once again, my home state of Illinois is at the epicenter of the immigrant rights movement. From Fox News Latino: “Activists, administrators of Chicago […]

Thanksgiving More than Pilgrims And Turkey

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By:Victor Escalante NewsTaco El Paso, Texas is known for many things; Chico’s Tacos, Fort Bliss, cowboy boots, the Sun Bowl, and the first Thanksgiving celebrated in America? Yes! But more […]

Jazz de México

NewsTaco November 16, 2012

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Another Friday, another week done! High fives all around. The best thing? The holiday’s are upon us! It doesn’t get much better than that, unless  of […]