4 Awesome Latinas To Know For Women’s History Month
4 Awesome Latinas To Know For Women’s History Month
Latinas are so often filtered through the media’s racist and narrow lens. According to the TV, we are sexy, spicy, angry, submissive, and/or really skilled at cleaning. Sometimes we wear […]
Pepper Spray Cop Meme Gets Spicier
So as you may or may not have heard, Pocho.com is back — and not a moment too soon! If you haven’t seen the University of California at Davis pepper […]
We Are All Alabama When Laws Target The Best Of Us
By Dustin Mendus It all began when the kids stopped showing up to school. Hundreds of Latino kids disappeared from school when Alabama began enforcing it’s brutal immigration law, HB […]
I Talk About The Hard Stuff Because I Think It’s Important
I literally and figuratively have a big mouth. Sometimes I know I should shut the hell up, but — boy howdy — it’s so hard for me to repress my […]
Undocumented Youth Occupy Wells Fargo In Oakland
Undocumented youth leaders of the group 67 Sueños helped to shut down a Wells Fargo branch in Oakland as part of the Occupy Oakland movement over the weekend. We spoke to organizer […]
Latino Rep. Arrested For Protesting DREAM Act At White House
Several of our News Taco readers have suggested we post on this story, so here it is: U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez was arrested outside of the White House Tuesday as […]
A 2011 Reading Of “The Revolt Of The Cockroach People”
I remember the first time I read Oscar Zeta Acosta’s super-Chicano novel, “The Revolt Of The Cockroach People.” I was in eighth grade, during silent sustained reading, and happened to […]