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NewsTaco June 4, 2012

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. […]

Latino “Sleeping Giant” Is An Uphill Political Battle

NewsTaco June 1, 2012

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 […]

Latino Immigrants Fear Evacuations More than Hurricanes

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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 […]

Changing Face Of America: Fight For Civil Rights Is Not Over

Mary Mata May 31, 2012

By Marc Morial, Other Words We’ve been hearing about it for years, and now the time has come. In May, the Census Bureau announced that for the first time, the birth […]

How To Take Long Holiday From High Gas Prices

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By Maria Cardona, Latinovations Summer is here and millions of Americans will be hitting the road to see family and friends, take a breather away from home. And luckily, after […]

Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala, Chapter 4

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(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 […]

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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 […]

Dolores Huerta Receives Nation’s Highest Civilian Honor

Mary Mata May 30, 2012

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 […]

Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala, Chapter 3

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(Editor’s note: This is the third of an eight part series) By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI Chapter 3: Living Proof Within just a few weeks, the U.S. Embassy […]

Death Toll in U.S. Cities Will Rise From Higher Temperatures

Mary Mata May 29, 2012

By La Onda Verde Climate change is literally killing us. According to NRDC’s “Killer Summer Heat” report, more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to […]