latino voting rights
Federal Judge Rules Pasadena Infringed On Latino Voting Rights, Orders Changes
*This a recurring story. Latinos win voting rights battles only to see them regress. And we fight them again, as we should, as many times as needed. VL By Andrew […]
New PBS Documentary Spotlights Latino Voting Rights Advocate
*Be sure to stream the documentary on PBS.org. PBS will be monitoring the number of streams for 7 days after the premiere in order to gauge interest in Latin-themed programming. […]
Study: Young Latino Voting Rights Threatened
By Hector Luis Alamo, Jr., Being Latino My fellow young Latinos, your voting rights are under attack. From Fox News Latino: “Young minority voter turnout could drop by almost 700,000 in […]
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?” […]
TX and MO Challenge Latino Voting Rights
Legislators in Missouri and Texas will consider Voter ID laws today. This is important because many Latino civil rights advocates consider Voter ID an infringement on the voting rights of […]
Why Latinos Are Still Fighting For The Voting Rights Act
*Lot’s of developments this past week on the voting rights front: The 50th anniversary of the VRA and a Texas lawsuit that found strength in Section 2 of the Act […]
For Latinos, 1965 Voting Rights Act Impact Came A Decade Later
*For Latinos, 1975 was just as significant as 1965. The VRA extension of that year ended language discrimination at the polls. VL By Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News Gloria Molina has […]
For Texas Latinos, Voting Rights is Voter Education
By Rebecca Aguilar, NewsTaco Guadalupe Ruiz walked into a voting precinct in the south Dallas Oak Cliff section to cast her ballot on the first day of early voting in […]
Six months from midterms, Latinos should pay more attention to voting, voting rights
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Reports about immigration get a disproportionate amount of attention in Latino media and in the mainstream media’s attempts to cover the Latino community – and deservedly […]
Georgia Latinos Prepare for Gainesville Voting Rights Battle
By Jerry Gunn, Access North Georgia The head of the Atlanta based Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) said Tuesday night there’s strong evidence that the City of Gainesville is […]