The Latino Voting Rights Saga: It’s Complicated
The Latino Voting Rights Saga: It’s Complicated
A three-judge federal panel in Washington will be hearing two weeks’ worth of testimony, starting this week, on Texas’ congressional redistricting maps. Again? If you’re thinking, “Didn’t they already do this?” […]
Coloradans Campaign To Bring Back Latino Radio Show Host
Mario Solis-Marich was a radio show host in Colorado at KKZN AM760 for three years, until he said he was unceremoniously told midday on December 1 that his show was […]
Fired New Mexico DMV Employee Sues Over “No Spanish” Rule
The Mexican American Legal Dense and Education Fund has gone to the defense of a Latina who was fired for calling-out discriminatory practices at the New Mexico driver’s license bureau. […]
Shakespeare, Mexican American Studies Books Banned In Tucson
By Salomón Baldenegro Tucson, Arizona — First, let’s get the media-driven nonsense out of the way: “ethnic studies” was not dismantled in the Tucson Unified School District. Mexican American Studies […]
Latinos, Honor Martin Luther King Jr By Registering To Vote
By Rebecca Lynn Guerra The commemoration of Dr. King’s birthday forces us to reflect on the civil rights movement, its past, and our future. The movement conjures up images and […]
Want To Support Latinos In The Media? Turn Off Your TV
By Julia Ahumada Grob and Jazmin Chavez, Latino Rebels The 2010 Census revealed that with over 50 million Latinos in the United States, 1 out of every 6 people are of Hispanic or […]
Undocumented Immigrants Can’t Even Freeload Properly
It’s no secret that El Guapo hates undocumented immigrants. He spent most of the holidays on his roof, throwing used cell phones and rusty 9-volt batteries at his undocumented family […]
Tucson’s Ethnic Studies Program Officially Shut Down
The Tucson Unified School District’s governing board shut down the ethnic studies program — or Mexican American studies — in a meeting Tuesday night. Only one of the five board […]
KKK Recruiting In Oklahoma Doesn’t Go So Well
An attempt by members of the United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, to recruit new “knights” ended up doing a bit of the opposite, […]
Pocho.com’s Week In Ñews: Iowa, Chihuahuas, Looking “Mexican”
Hatred of the poor edged out racism and homophobia in the Iowa GOP caucuses, a Fresno man was mauled by chihuahuas and died of shame, and the attempt to repeal […]
