The Death Of Anastasio Hernandez: The Silence Is An Outrage

By Victor Landa Who is Anastasio Hernandez Rojas? It’s a lamentable question. The fact that Anastasio’s isn’t a household name speaks to a pile of issues that seem out-of-sync with all the noise about […]

By Antonio Zavala, Voxxi Tomas Choc an elderly man in a small town in Guatemala searching for his daughter, who he hasn’t seen in 20 years. He hopes against all odds […]

Miryam Mora-Barajas April marked the one year anniversary since California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that made prisoner early release program a reality. The California Supreme Court ordered California […]

By Jim Estrada It is becoming clear that too many in our society have reached a level of comfort with overt expressions of bias and racial discrimination towards non-whites, especially […]

(Editor’s note: the following is a MALDEF Press Release) Today (4/23/12) MALDEF filed a petition for writ of mandate to compel Sheriff Lee Baca to release public records relating to […]

The terrifying news of mothers who murder their own children is becoming more and more frequent. It used to be a given that a mother was the only person who could protect her children from the adversities of […]

By Khalil Bendib, Other Words

By Janice Fuentes, Our Tiempo While I enjoy a pleasant conversation with Kelby, one of the subjects in the much anticipated documentary “Bully”, the movie’s director, a very tired Lee […]

By Reyna Jacqueline Peña, Gozamos In a recent blog piece, I reflected on my upbringing in Little Village and my beliefs regarding some of the factors that contribute to violence in the community. I […]

By Dustin Mendus A truck carrying twenty “Illegal aliens” was intercepted Sunday, April 8th, by “individuals in camouflage uniforms brandishing rifles” in Pima, Arizona. Two people in the truck were […]