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Monday June 4, 2012 Study: Immigrants embrace American values (UPI): Immigrants and their descendants embrace basic American values even as they celebrate and honor their own heritages, a U.S. researcher said. […]

(Editor’s note: This is the fifth of an eight part series) By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI Chapter 5: The Hunt Moves North Frustrated that the Dos Erres case […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The next time you read or hear anyone write about or mention the mythical Latino “sleeping giant” you have my permission to smack them upside the head, in […]

By Peter Malof, Texas News Service ALAMO, Texas – June marks the beginning of hurricane season – when many residents of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley find themselves weighing the dangers […]

By Griselda Nevárez, Voxxi In 1994, America Ferrera was 9 years old living in Los Angeles when California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187. The law, which was later ruled unconstitutional by a […]

Friday June 1, 2012 DOJ eyes Florida voter roll purge of non-U.S. citizens (Politico): A top lawyer for the Justice Department’s civil rights division wants Florida officials to explain why they’ve […]

(Editor’s note: This is the fourth of an eight part series) By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI Chapter 4: Strange News From Home In the summer of 2000, Oscar […]

Thursday May 31, 2012 Majority of African Americans and Latinos support marriage equality (The Hill): Despite the absence of media coverage on Latinos and marriage equality, numerous surveys tell us that […]

By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi Dolores Huerta, the famed civil rights advocate of the farm worker movement, received the nation’s highest civilian honor Tuesday when President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal […]

By Janet Murguía Last week, the Census Bureau released updated population numbers affirming once again that Latinos are America’s largest and fastest-growing minority. There are now 52 million of us […]