Obama Admin Wants More Diversity In Govt

Yesterday the Obama Administration released an executive order calling for more diversity within federal hiring. Essentially in 90 days the White House hopes to: develop a government-wide agenda for diversity in […]

Which Democratic leader does the 35th congressional district “belong” to? The longtime congressman Lloyd Doggett or the state representative-turned-congressional-candidate Joaquín Castro? Considering that both are essentially new residents to this emergent […]

Georgia is just one of many states to introduce an SB 1070 copycat law and skip arm-in-arm with Arizona down the no-nonsense, iron-fisted-crackdown path as a way to deal with […]

Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman is calling for the rejection of portions of the federal Voting Rights Act calling for providing voters with ballots in more than one language. Coffman said he […]

Recently I was at an event when an elderly white gentleman approached me and began a conversation. After we got over the whole “It’s Sara, not Sarah,” part of my […]

By studying at the undergraduate level, and then pursuing a graduate degree, Latinos may gain influence in the highest levels of our society. Every year I work to create opportunities to […]

What’s happening in Alabama that has experts and educators scratching their heads about Latinos and what was expected of them? Pretty much everyone who thought they knew what would happen […]

We’ve all been there. You’re with your non-Latino co-workers, you’re joking around, and then all of a sudden, someone decides to tell the funniest joke ever — based on racist […]

Now that Tim Pawlenty has quit the race for the GOP presidential nomination, it serves to take a look at the anti-Latino rhetoric that’s still alive in the race. We’ve […]

Like other crimes, hate crimes leave tracks that cannot be erased, not only for the families of the victims of these crimes, but also in the communities where they live. […]