43% Of Latinas Living Alone In Poverty

And now for some rather sad news: 43% of Latinas who live alone live in poverty, while 34% of African-American women are in a similar situation. This information comes from […]

You can put Mississippi at the head of  the line on at least one thing: that state’s seante is the first to approve an immigration law that apes Arizona’s sb […]

Recently, the idea that Latinos shouldn’t receive focused political attention because eventually, like Italian and Irish immigrants before them, they will eventually assimilate and become “white” has been tossed around. Particularly, […]

Two men in Sunnyvale, Calif. are being charged with a hate crime after they launched an unprovoked attack on a Latino man in a back in November 2010. The men […]

As someone who is originally from Los Angeles and has lived in Texas for many years, I often am asked by my California-inclined friends why I would stay in such […]

A KKK leader in Kentucky seems to have gotten away with inciting his members to violence, but since he wasn’t there when the men kicked then-16 year-old Jordan Gruver repeatedly […]

You know the old clichéd saying that not all that glitters is gold. Case in point is Connecticut’s bandied and vaulted education achievement scores. For a very long time that […]

Poynter published a story this week detailing the American Society of News Editors’ efforts to get a general count for the number of journalists of color that are in U.S. […]

[Editor’s Note: Thanks to Vincent Bosquez for the tip, here’s part of his update and part of mine.] Ron Rivera has been named head coach of the Carolina Panthers. He’s […]

You gotta love this guy! His name is Luis Garcia, from Miami. He’s a state representative and has an obvious flair for the dramatic. He’s also a great example of […]