Lourdes Flores Helps Texas Colonia Residents Help Themselves

By Priscila Mosqueda, Texas Observer Lourdes Flores didn’t know she wanted to help others until someone helped her. She was born in Reynosa, Mexico, and moved to Mission, Texas, at age […]

By Emily Deruy, ABCNews/Univision Latinos are anything but homogenous, a fact underscored by a newCensus Bureau report that shows a significant variance in poverty rates among different subgroups of Hispanics. The […]

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny, Huffington Post Latino Voices Amidst all of the election-year sniping, education reform never became a major issue in the 2012 presidential campaign. Even though both candidates released […]

By Alexandra Morbitzer, Being Latino According to 2010 statistics, there is currently just over 15% of Americans living in poverty, although U.S. Latinos are at a much higher rate with […]

By Marian Wright Edelman, Other Words Summertime can be a carefree, relaxing season filled with cookouts, backyard picnics, and trips to the ice cream truck. But for too many kids, […]

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 Antonio Zavala, Voxxi Tomas Choc an elderly man in a small town in Guatemala searching for his daughter, who he hasn’t seen in 20 years. He hopes against all odds […]

I know enough has been written about hipsters, but please humor me, for I had not had the opportunity to chime in. What exactly is a hipster? The definition seems […]

By Maite Arce, Executive Director, Hispanic Access Foundation Hispanics are passionate about their public parks and open spaces. Parks are often the center of family life and activities, used as […]

The University of Texas recently launched a new program, Finish@UT, with the goal of creating better access to classes and the attainment of degrees for non-traditional students, who may be juggling […]