Authors, Booksellers: National BookExpo Lacks Diversity

Authors, Booksellers: National BookExpo Lacks Diversity

NewsTaco May 28, 2014

*This has been an issue for many years, but it has recently increased in visibility, intensity. Latino authors have a wealth of creativity, beauty, vision, wisdom, and experience to offer. […]

The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media

NewsTaco May 12, 2014

*Yeah, this is one of the reasons we started NewsTaco. VL By Gabriel Arana, The American Prospect On the staff of The American Prospect, I’m the only member of an ethnic […]

The hidden bias of a brief investor comment

NewsTaco January 6, 2014

By Ana Díaz-Hernández, Anadiazhernandez.com Investors in Silicon Valley have been getting heat lately about not having diversity in the founders of their portfolio– and in my opinion, rightfully so.  We’ve […]

White House Task: FCC Focused on Digital Literacy & Diversity

Mary Mata April 26, 2013

By Jason Llorenz, LIN@R The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the independent agency that regulates the Internet and the nation’s telecommunications and broadcasting industries, is hiring in 2013. Two positions are […]

Diversity Programs Give Illusion of Corporate Fairness

Mary Mata April 5, 2013

By Science Daily Diversity training programs lead people to believe that work environments are fair even when given evidence of hiring, promotion or salary inequities, according to new findings by […]

Number of Latino Writers for TV Are Up

Mary Mata March 28, 2013

By Jorge Rivas, Colorlines On Tuesday the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) released a report that found the number of writer of color writing for television has doubled since the […]

Liberal Arts Colleges Partner to Increase Faculty Diversity

Mary Mata January 24, 2013

By LIN@R/JBHE A group of liberal arts colleges is joining force with the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University in an effort to increase the diversity of the […]

Opinion: Really, Yale Appoints First Tenured Latina faculty Member?

Mary Mata January 16, 2013

By Angelo Falcon, NBC Latino “There are times when you hear what at first sounds like good news, and then you think about it and wonder if, in fact, it […]

Latino Salt Lake County Mayor Candidate Wants To Rep Everyone

Mary Mata December 21, 2011

Ross Romero has lived a set of several different lives in his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. Recently, he told NewsTaco that his varied experience in his hometown —  […]

Latino Medical School Enrollment Rising

Mary Mata December 19, 2011

An exciting report this week notes that Latinos are increasingly applying to and attending medical schools in the U.S. and in significant numbers. Since 2004 applications by Latino students to […]