Connecticut Shooting about Gun Reform, Not Education Reform

By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco I’ve remained silent watching the news about the funerals for the victims—especially the children—of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.  I watched two parents on CNN last […]

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog Today’s LA Times story is about Adam Lanza, the shooter in the Sandy Hook Elementary School horror in Newtown, Connecticut…. Here’s what didn’t make […]

By Tony Castro, Voxxi Officials release names of Connecticut school victims The six-year-old Hispanic grandniece of a Puerto Rican political figure was among the Connecticut school victims that were gunned down in the […]

By Tony Castro, Voxxi A Hispanic first grade teacher killed in the Connecticut shooting is being hailed by her community as a heroine for bravely sacrificing herself as “a human shield” to […]

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PRESS RELEASE Litigation Settlement Prevents Sheriff Baca From Keeping Decades-Old Documents Under Wraps And Subject Only to In-Person Supervised Review LOS ANGELES, CA – On Tuesday, MALDEF settled its lawsuit against […]

By Jose de la Isla, Voxxi MEXICO CITY — Elia Andrade Olea and I sit down on a bench on Avenida Juárez. She was telling me about her collective’s mission to […]

By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco The “War on Drugs” and specifically the “Mexican Drug War” are not new themes to readers following news stories. But two recent stories revisit and highlight another […]

By Latino Rebels Today, the YouTube channel of EmergenciaMx.org released an 18-minute video of the #1DMx protests, which occurred this Saturday. According to its site and Facebook page, EmergenciaMx is an alternative non-profit media collective of […]

By Kent Paterson, New America Media/Frontera NorteSur As outgoing Mexican president Felipe Calderon prepares to enter the Ivory Tower of Harvard, skeletons are rattling the walls of Mexico during the […]