Anna María Chavez Named New Girl Scouts CEO

Girl Scouts of the USA has selected Mexican-American Anna Maria Chavez as its new CEO. As mentioned previously in News Taco, the organization is stepping up efforts to recruit more […]

I grew up in a street filled with kids with little or no inhibitions. There were about six or seven of us, which by today’s standards would be a gang, but […]

Standardized tests have been a thorn in my side for most of my life — I simply am not a good test taker — but it’s not just me. If […]

Six percent of the nation’s K-12 teachers are Latino, compared to 20% of the Latino student population in public schools – that’s according to reports by the National Center for […]

It is summertime now, and one of my friends wanted to go to the lake in order to swim. She was surprised to hear that I do not know how […]

I believe in the power of neighborhoods and barrios. I believe public institutions devoted to our leisure, education, and civic engagement are sacred spaces. The people make the place, but […]

I grew up watching movies. My dad is a hard core movie buff, and since he usually got to pick the movies, right from the time I was a kid […]

If you’ve ever wondered, what is this world coming to? Check out my neighborhood. It’s a model of new residential integration. My neighbors to the right are ethnic-Palestinian, from Jordan. […]

By Maria Elena Pérez, Interim Executive Director National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health Latinas by far disproportionately benefit in every area of the new Department of Health and Human Services […]

My relationship with my mother when I was growing was fraught with tension because of what seemed like an enormous cultural chasm. We were never like the “Gilmore Girls,” finishing each other’s […]