Latino Youth Leadership = Salsa Music and Pizza

One of the great American traits is improvisation. From a nation of immigrants, one of our greatest cultural gifts to the world has been Jazz, the quintessential improvisation. But it […]

Here’s a part of the immigration debate that gets little play in the general, national, debate: the infamous ‘line” that immigrants must stand in in order to enter the US […]

Dr. Roberto Treviño has been working to end diabetes for decades. I first met him some 20 years ago when I was a reporter at San Antonio’s local Univision station, […]

There’s a wonderful story about a Latina law student who petitioned for and won legal protection for an indigenous group in Oaxaca, Mexico. The story of Carla Espinoza’s fight for […]

We’re at the point of the year when folks are shaking off the dust of this year’s battles and making plans for the one’s to come. Much of the speculation […]

That’s what Santiago Malave says that police told him when they arrested him for disorderly conduct in East Haven, Connecticut. The rub is this: Malave is a Puerto Rican born […]

TheProgressive.org posted an excellent piece about the steady creep towards the re-segregation of public schools. The editorial, written by Fred McKissack, makes a point of stating that desegregation in our […]

Quick question. What do you drive? And no, “my family crazy” is not an acceptable answer. If you’re Latino/a (we have many non-Latino readers) chances are you drive an import. […]

This article, by Maritza Lizeth Félix, appeared in the Prensa Hispana, and it’s got interesting facts that support the positive contribution of Latinos, Latinas specifically, to the Arizona economy. It goes […]

So at first I read this little item from Fox News in Phoenix and felt mildly concerned. Arizona’s sheriff Joe Arpaio has eased off on his famous traffic patrols in […]