Telling the Digital Latino Story
Telling the Digital Latino Story
I LOVE THIS STORY! OK, I’m biased. I love storytelling and I love taking down the walls of stereotypes. This story does both. An organization called Mobile Voices is putting […]
Attitudes Shifting on Immigration, Slowly, Predictably
So now that the dust has settled after the mid-term election and the holiday daze is beginning to clear, people are thinking a little differently. The most recent poll, reported […]
Tackling the Shortage of Latinos in Math and Science
And then there is the other story that needs to be told, and told again. Not to undermine a vastly troubling problem in our community, but the drop out rate […]
¡Feliz Año Nuevo! A mischivous New Year’s Memory
I learned to smoke cigarettes on new year’s eve. When I was a boy I was low-man of the rather large Landa-cousin gang that convened on family gatherings and special […]
Macs Better Than PCs For Accents, Spanish
I took the plunge into Macs earlier this year and have to say I’m not disappointed. Although purchasing a MacBook Pro this year was a huge adjustment from the Dell […]
Oklahoma Sees Rise In Latino Students
The highest percentage ever of Oklahoma’s public school children are Latino, according to recent figures. About 12% of the state’s school population is Latino, compared to 55% white, 18% Native […]
Felipe Calderón Says U.S. Fuels Drug War
The BBC took a good interview with Mexican president Felipe Calderón (no relation, ha ha) and we wanted to share it with you here. The BBC interviewer comes off a […]
Wisconsin To Boast First Latina State Rep
Wisconsin is set to have its first Latina legislator in the form of JoCasta Zamarripa, 34, who is Mexican-American and will be serving as the state representative of the eighth assembly district […]
30 Years Later, the First Latina Drum Major at Notre Dame
Many of you college football fans already know this, but Notre Dame is playing in the Sun Bowl, in El Paso, this year. That fact induced a local TV station […]
Legal Wait for Entry to US is Decades Long
Here’s a part of the immigration debate that gets little play in the general, national, debate: the infamous ‘line” that immigrants must stand in in order to enter the US […]