LOS ANGELES: A&E Biography documentary on Drew Street and the Leon-Real family
LOS ANGELES: A&E Biography documentary on Drew Street and the Leon-Real family
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog Tonight at 10pm (9 pmCentral), A&E/Biography is showing a documentary on the Leon-Real family and the Drew Street gang, part of its (perhaps hyperbolically […]
Throwaway kids: disciplined California teens struggle to school themselves
By Susan Ferriss, The Center for Public Integrity LOST HILLS, Calif. — On a blistering May day in California’s Central Valley, most other 13-year-olds were in classrooms down the road. But […]
California’s imminent Latino plurality: How will we know when it happens?
By Leslie Berestein Rojas , Southern California Public Radio A ceremony last week outside the State Capitol marked a long-predicted milestone: the day that Latinos in California catch up with the number of […]
Villaraigosa Intends To Run For Governor
By Fox News Latino Antonio Villaraigosa is leaving his mayoral post, but that won’t be the last chapter of his political career if he has anything to say about it. […]
California’s Calderon brothers raising funds for 2014 campaigns
By Sharon McNary, Southern California Public Radio State Senator Ron Calderon, whose Sacramento offices were recently raided by the FBI, has been raising money for a return to the Assembly. And his two […]
California Latino Caucus says FBI did not search its office
(Editor’s note: Thanks to Taquista Roger Salazar for alerting us to this update.) By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee FBI agents at the state Capitol raided two offices connected with Sen. Ron Calderon on […]
FBI Raids Offices Of California State Senator, Latino Legislative Caucus
By Don Thompson and Tom Verdin, Associated Press, Huffington Post SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The FBI searched the offices of a California state senator and the Legislature’s Latino caucus on Tuesday […]
COMPTON: In SoCal, the best stories come from smallest towns
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog I’ve long thought that in Southern California, the best stories come from the small suburbs — particularly those just to the southeast of Los Angeles, […]
California’s Mental Health System Targeted Latinas For Sterilization
By Annie-Rose Strasser, Think Progress Latina women in California’s mental health system were disproportionately targeted for forced sterilization for seventy years, according to new research by the University of Michigan. Between 1909 […]
David Sal Silva: An American Tragedy
By Nick Belardes, Latino Rebels Latino Rebels will be running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nick Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ first […]
