Commentary: A Collective Silence Is A License To Hate

By Jim Estrada It is becoming clear that too many in our society have reached a level of comfort with overt expressions of bias and racial discrimination towards non-whites, especially […]

(Editor’s note: the following is a MALDEF Press Release) Today (4/23/12) MALDEF filed a petition for writ of mandate to compel Sheriff Lee Baca to release public records relating to […]

By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Wednesday regarding Arizona’s controversial immigration law — a case formally known as Arizona v. United States. The […]

By Eliseo Medina For two years, we have been living with the consequences of state level racial profiling laws that violate our basic human and civil rights. These laws — […]

Two years worth of posturing and protesting, testing and taunting, about immigration and states rights will come to a head this Wednesday when both sides of Arizona’s controversial SB1070 argue […]

By Khalil Bendib, Other Words

By Peter Malof, Texas News Service HOUSTON – Court watchers say a Texas case could trigger the dismantling of a decades-old civil rights law. Steven Shapiro, the American Civil Liberties […]

By Janice Fuentes, Our Tiempo While I enjoy a pleasant conversation with Kelby, one of the subjects in the much anticipated documentary “Bully”, the movie’s director, a very tired Lee […]

By Esther J. Cepeda, Voxxi Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent out an unusually cheerful press release: “Border Patrol Academy Graduates 1,000th Class.” Forty-five newbies got through the Border […]

By Jonathan Higuera, Voxxi Last week’s extraordinary decision to disbar former Maricopa County AttorneyAndrew Thomasand his puppet henchwoman Lisa Aubuchon from practicing law in Arizona should leave Maricopa County Sheriff […]