OPINION: The War on Mommies

By Martha Burk, Other Words The so-called “mommy wars” are heating up again. Once more, we’re seeing stay-at-home moms supposedly pitted against moms with paid jobs during an election year. […]

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 Laura Donnnelly Gonzalez According to mainstream press, the “sleeping giant,” Latinos, are awakening, inspiring the first Time magazine cover in Spanish.  But, despite such validating nods, mainstream television and film […]

By Tony Castro, Voxxi When Eva Longoria was unveiled as one of co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, the reaction among the national press corps was the usual rolling of the […]

By Paloma Corredor, Voxxi  TIME Magazine has released its annual list of the100 most influential people, and for the first time, the majority of the list is non-white. And nine of the top 100 are […]

by Miryam Mora-Barajas Another Equal Pay Day has come and gone, but for Latinas, the benefits of the Equal Pay Act seems to have passed them by. In 1963, Kennedy signed […]

By Victor Landa It turns out pro-immigrant trumps anti-abortion in Nebraska after all. This has been a topsy-turvy issue for a few weeks so I’ll give you the need-to-know version […]

Once upon a time, I believed what my first grade teacher told me.  I thought I was the descendant of a pilgrim. I took her word for it. I thought […]

It’s not surprising to me to see disconnects in political rhetoric. What is surprising is to see how readily they’re accepted and go unquestioned. Take for instance the idea that Latinos are […]

Who would have thought it? This is the lead paragraph of an Associated Press story that ran in the Chicago Sun-Times: She was just a regular kid. Now, the dress […]