CA 4th Graders Unite to Bring DREAMer Classmate Home

CA 4th Graders Unite to Bring DREAMer Classmate Home

Mary Mata March 22, 2013

By Diana Bohn, Berkeley Daily Planet Rodrigo was a happy nine-year-old fourth grader at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, where he lived since he was two years old. On January […]

Aging Between 2 Worlds: Latinos Thrive on Faith, Optimism, Tradition

Mary Mata March 21, 2013

By Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez, New America Media Part 2. Read Part 1 here.  DALLAS, Texas–“Lord, give me the strength of the buffalo, and make me like the eagle,” is one of the […]

Mother Faces Deportation for Having Barking Dogs

Mary Mata March 20, 2013

By Jennie Pasquarella, ACLU of Southern California and Axel Caballero, Cuéntame  Where would you expect to find half-a-dozen patrol cars on New Year’s Eve?  In Bakersfield, California, ranked in the highest […]

Tracing Latino Roots Via Sound

Mary Mata March 19, 2013

By NPR Sonic Trace is a multimedia project that follows Latinos living in Los Angeles travelling back to their families’ native lands. Led by radio producer Anyansi Diaz-Cortes, it examines the […]

Latino Voters Support Gay Families in Immigration Reform

Mary Mata March 11, 2013

By Steve Ralls, Latino Decisions Originally posted at Immigration Equality A new Immigration Equality/Latino Decisions poll of Latino voters shows strong support for immigration reform legislation that includes lesbian and gay […]

Lourdes Flores Helps Texas Colonia Residents Help Themselves

Mary Mata March 4, 2013

By Priscila Mosqueda, Texas Observer Lourdes Flores didn’t know she wanted to help others until someone helped her. She was born in Reynosa, Mexico, and moved to Mission, Texas, at age […]

Dwindling Catholic Schools See Future in Latino Students

Mary Mata March 1, 2013

By Aaron Schrank, Religion News Service As the country’s fastest-growing population, Latinos now make up nearly 40 percent of all U.S. Catholics, but represent less than 14 percent of students at […]

U.S. Sequester Cuts Would Harm Latino Babies

Mary Mata

By Khalil Abdullah, New America Media WASHINGTON, D.C.–Thousands of unborn Americans have no say on whether the process of across-the-board federal budget cuts – the so-called “sequestration” — should move forward […]

1,008 Latinas in the United States turn 15 Each Day

Mary Mata February 22, 2013

By Jody Brannon, Latinovations The desire to connect with America’s growing Hispanic and Latino audiences has marketing firms parsing data, looking to help clients make sense of shifting demographics. With the […]

How Marco Rubio’s Mom Influenced Him on Immigration Reform

Mary Mata February 8, 2013

By Arlette Saenz, ABCNews In an interview with Time magazine, Rubio said his mother, Oriales Garcia Rubio, left him a voice mail in December that urged him to tread cautiously when it came […]