Latinos And Bill Daley Obama’s New Chief Of Staff
Latinos And Bill Daley Obama’s New Chief Of Staff
President Barack Obama has appointed Bill Daley — former Clinton Commerce secretary and current JP Morgan’s Midwest Chair and head of corporate responsibility in Chicago — to be his new Chief […]
Dia de Reyes, Feast of the Aha!
Televisa, Mexico’s behemoth broadcasting company, had live helicopter-view images of the Tepito marked in Mexico City last night, at midnight. Hundreds of thousands of people packed block after block of […]
First Order of Business for New Congress: Exclude Puerto Rico
The new Republican leaning congress got straight to work after taking their oath of office and listening to a reading of the US Constitution. Their first order of business was […]
US Gun Shops are Fueling Mexico’s Drug War
According to Mexico’s attorney general there were 12,456 murders in his country from January to November of 2010. That’s more than 1000 a month, mostly done with firearms, mostly dealing […]
Lucha Libre Wrestlers Pass On Narco Cultura
In a feel good story by The Washington Post, we learn that lucha libre wrestlers in the Washington, D.C. area have purposefully left out narcocultura from their repertoire. The story […]
14 States To Tackle Birthright Citizenship
Seriously? According to a recent report, 14 states have legislators who are set to file bills about birthright citizenship this year. That is, they are going to propose laws that would […]
Note to Bill Richardson: You Don’t Speak for Us
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out! Geez. Not a day after former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson left office, a group of disgruntled Latinos have told […]
Republicans Take Republicans to Task for use of Anchor baby
You can’t expect people to stop a behavior if you don’t take them to task for doing it. I’ve been writing in general terms about the use of the words […]
The Importance Of Latino Group Cohesion
As we start off 2011, I find it an important opportunity to make a comment about something we all tend to take for granted: Why do we lump together ethnicities […]
Ethnic Studies Illegal In Arizona, Profiling Still Ok
Ethnic studies — like African-American studies or Chicano studies — are now officially illegal in Arizona. This goes back to a bill that passed around the same time as SB […]