The Latino Voting Rights Saga: It’s Complicated
The Latino Voting Rights Saga: It’s Complicated
A three-judge federal panel in Washington will be hearing two weeks’ worth of testimony, starting this week, on Texas’ congressional redistricting maps. Again? If you’re thinking, “Didn’t they already do this?” […]
Latino Civil Rights Figures: Rubén Salazar
Rubén Salazar was born in 1928 in Ciudad Juárez,, Mexico. Through his journalism career in El Paso and later Los Angeles, Salazar became the first Mexican-American to cover the Chicano community […]
New Immigration Rule To Bring Relief To Mixed Status Families
By Melissa del Bosque I never thought I’d have the pleasure of writing this, but the Obama Administration proposed an immigration rule change Friday that will relieve the suffering of […]
Texas Redistricting: The Telenovela
A lot of people have commented lately that all of this redistricting business, especially in Texas, is terribly confusing and consequently, no one cares. For political nerds like me, that’s […]
Futuro Fund Empowers Latinos To Become Philanthropists
FuturoFund started in 2009 in Austin, Texas as a way for a group of Latino professionals to make a tangible difference in their community. FuturoFund’s basic premise is a charitable […]
Bien Hecho: Latina Miss Deaf America Also Earning A PhD
Rachel Mazique is Miss Deaf America and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally from Illinois, she entered the pageant world at the behest of the Illinois Deaf Latino Association, who […]
Redistricting Wars Are Really A Fight Over Who Gets Power
Why is the Texas redistricting process such a mess? The answer is not simple, except for the fact that these redistricting wars are at the foundation for the political control […]
Latino Civil Rights Figures: La Raza Unida Party
La Raza Unida Party was established in Crystal City, Texas in 1970 by a group of youth, including José Ángel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, both organizers for the Mexican American Youth Organization. […]
Lawsuit Highlights Why Affirmative Action Is Still Needed
By Cindy Casares The fate of affirmative action at America’s colleges could rest on a dispute over $100. Abigail Noel Fisher, a white woman from Richmond, Texas, has sued the […]
It’s Not Fair To Shame People For Not Speaking Spanish
There is a particular shame associated with being a Latino in the United States: you may not speak Spanish, and if you do, you will never speak it well enough. I […]
