Latino Heads U.S. Commission On Civil Rights

For the first time ever, a Latino is head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights — that’s the organization that serves as a clearinghouse for civil rights violations on […]

Have you got about 6 minutes or so? The Tucson Citizen posted a video produced by filmmaker Dennis Gilman that captures the rawness of the anti-immigrant movement in Arizona. It’s titled “Beyond 1070: The […]

[Editor’s Note: The following was reposted from Somos Republicans with permission.] By Alex Gonzalez As the issue of SB1070 in the southwest is vanishing from state legislatures and return to […]

The New York Times published a great piece on Sunday about John Tanton, who the story noted was probably one of the most influential, yet unknown people in the country. Essentially […]

So, yesterday, as I was looking through the News Taco comments, I came across a real zinger. The commenter in question, presumably a man, didn’t use his real name, but […]

By Efrain Nieves In the second, and last, installment of Latinos that served in the U.S. Civil War, we will be featuring some of the most well known Latinos and Latinas that dedicated their lives […]

A New Jersey man who sent threatening emails to Latino organizations from anonymous email accounts received a sentence of 50 months in prison and a fine of $10,000. We wrote […]

Fidel Castro will not be be a part of Cuba’s Communist Central Committee. A man who sent threatening emails to Latino activists is headed to jail in New Jersey. President […]

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times:  why can’t people without papers do it the “legal way”? Well a great story in Newsweek has the answer: […]

There’s no other way to say it but that the infamous anti-immigrant Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been found to have misspent about half his department’s annual budget, which […]