Top Latino Racial Slurs

On our weekly News Taco list segment this week we thought it’d be interesting to look at some of the top slurs, read: racial insults, against Latinos. Of course over […]

[Editor’s Note: Michael Seifert is an activist living in Brownsville, Texas. This post was re-published from his blog, Musings from Alongside a Border with permission.] Someone must have had a […]

Presente.org’s campaign to gather 50,000 signatures to demand that Kansas Rep. Virgil Peck resign after calling for the shooting of immigrants from helicopters was wildly successful. Presente.org’s National Campaign Director […]

Treynor Community Schools in Iowa was set to engage in a terror drill exercise that features at the center of the terror anti-immigrant hatred. The exercise would have included about […]

By Abby Rapoport No one expected a lot of surprises in House’s voter ID debate yesterday. For years, state Republicans have wanted to require photo identification before voters cast a […]

The City of Corpus Christi, Texas passed an ordinance that would ban anything that could be used to smoke illegal substances on February 8; the ordinance banned pipes but allows […]

Texas — like California and Arizona — is seeing huge Latino gains in its population. The majority of students in Texas are now Latino, making up 50.2% of the 4.9 […]

I wanted to post the actual letter from substitute teacher Tony Hill, and then the response from the school where his alleged experiences took place, Harold W. Smith Elementary. He […]

By Dave Mann The hearing room was packed for yesterday’s Senate Committee on Criminal Justice hearing, and it wasn’t difficult to figure out why. The committee heard one of the […]

The controversy over the racially tinged letter from a Tucson substitute teacher, read aloud on the floor of the Arizona state Senate, continues to grow. News Taco reported that the […]