Latino Civil Rights: Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta was born in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico but was raised by her single mother in the San Joaquin Valley community of Stockton, California. She became involved with […]

By Christina Rodriguez I am a 24 year-old voluptuous Latina who looks a little younger, which is to say, my body doesn’t look like the bodies “traditionally” defined as American. […]

By Izzy Sanabria, for the National Institute for Latino Policy History has taught us that conquerors plundered, raped, killed and destroyed cultures. As conquerors go, the Spaniards were one of the […]

Just about everyone I spoke to yesterday asked a variation of the same question: Did you see the Republican debate? What they were asking, really, was: Did you see Mitt […]

By America’s Voice Education Fund On September 28th, 2011, the most sweeping anti-immigration law in the country went into effect in Alabama.  The law, HB 56, has already had harsh […]

 By U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez Today, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Bureau released new statistics on how many people are being deported from the […]

Alabama’s Governor Rob Bentley says he’s insulted. The idea that Americans, Alabamans in this specific case, can’t or won’t do the work available in the state’s tomato fields is…anti-American. But the […]

Herman Cain, the GOP darling du jour, was in Tennessee this past weekend where he shared 2 main points about his ideas on immigration: build a fence;  electrify it. Context […]

By Aaron Dorfman, National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy Just when I was beginning to have some hope that philanthropy was getting better at meeting the needs of communities who have been underserved […]

Héctor Pérez García was born in Mexico and immigrated to south Texas during the Mexican Revolution. His hard won education — he had to hitchhike 30 miles each way to […]