North Carolina Diner: “No Speak English. No Service.”

North Carolina Diner: “No Speak English. No Service.”

Mary Mata May 27, 2011

Ah, this one is pretty priceless. A diner in North Carolina decided that customers were only welcome if they spoke “American,” and what’s worse, business after the signs went up […]

What’s Worse Than Lazy Racism?

Mary Mata

You know what I think is worse than racism? Lazy racism. That’s the kind of racism that you just kind of adhere to because — because. I mean, I don’t […]

Texas Legislature Approves Voter ID

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It’s not like we didn’t see this one coming. What with the Texas GOP reading population tea leaves, fighting for dear life in the redistricting process and seeing their waning popularity in […]

News Taco To Go: Arizona, Drugs, Redistricting & Georgia

Mary Mata

Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Immigration Law Drug And Human Smuggling Under Sheriff Arpaio’s Nose Georgia’s Latino Bashing Misses The Mark GOP Inaction On Redistricting May Cost Texas Big Bucks

Where’s Justice For Marine José Guerena, 71 Bullets Later?

Mary Mata May 26, 2011

When you shoot at a man 71 times in 7 seconds, your intentions are clear: kill — not subdue or arrest. When a Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) shoots […]

Georgia’s Latino Bashing Misses The Mark

Mary Mata

By Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) & the GALEO Latino Community Development Fund Latinos are a growing portion of Georgia’s school population, in some places, […]

Website Aims To Be Resource For Multicultural Families

Mary Mata May 25, 2011

Seeing as how about 15% of all marriages in the United States are between people of different races or ethnicities, and given recent Census results suggesting this trend will likely […]

Pawlenty’s Latino Voter Pitch: Immigrants Are Terrorists

Mary Mata May 24, 2011

By now you may have seen the 2002 gubernatorial ad in which then-candidate Tim Pawlenty suggests that immigrants are all really secret terrorists. You may have also noticed that, as […]

North Carolina Checkpoints Accused Of Racial Profiling

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If you’re Latino and traveling anywhere near Asheville, North Carolina, you may want to be aware of the checkpoints – you could be an automatic suspect. According to a recent article […]

Has The State Level Anti-Immigrant Push Lost Steam?

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Movement on the anti-immigrant front has pretty much stalled. The fervor that  was ignited by Arizona’s controversial SB1070 has, in the words of the Associated Press, fizzled. This doesn’t mean that we can […]