DOJ Seeks to Stop Texas Voter ID, Redistricting Maps

By Julián Aguilar, Texas Tribune The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it will again seek to dismantle Texas’ voter ID law, this time with a lawsuit alleging the measure […]

By Christy Hoppe, Dallas Morning News Attorney General Greg Abbott accused a lawyer for Hispanic legislators of providing unethical advice to Latino voters by suggesting they ignore state law and […]

By Phys.org A first-of-its-kind study from researchers in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin shows that, in addition to being isolated by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic […]

By Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer On Tuesday morning, Veronica Ayala, 33, stood next to her three-year old son Damian in a parking lot across the street from the J.J. […]

By Patrick J. Kelly, San Antonio Express News The 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a watershed defeat for the Confederate States of America, occurred earlier this month. One […]

By Debbie Nathan, The Texas Observer It’s 5:45 a.m. on a Monday, and we’re stuck in traffic, slowly inching northward on a bridge that joins Mexico to the United States at […]

By Domingo Ramirez Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH, Texas — The woman who was killed after being tossed from a roller coaster at Six Flags over Texas died of multiple […]

By Alessandra Hickson, NBCLatino San Antonio Democrat Mayor Julian Castro may have been on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports today to talk about his city’s AAA rating and economic stability, but NBC’s Andrea Mitchell […]

By Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante Spoiler alert: The life of Civil Rights lawyer Gus Garcia doesn’t have a happy ending, but the true story of our people lies between the […]

By Ariana Montelongo de Valdivia, Being Latino The growth of U.S. Latino population is no secret, but one need only peek at Texas to get a kaleidoscopic glimpse of America’s future. […]