Investigating Hate Across the U.S. There’s No Shortage of Work.

Investigating Hate Across the U.S. There’s No Shortage of Work.

NewsTaco April 28, 2017

By Joe Sexton and Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica (5.5 minute read)   An African-American homeless man slain with a sword on the streets of New York. A mosque attacked in Fort […]

Appeal Ruling Due Today on Woman Convicted in 2009 Murder of 9 Year-old Brisenia Flores

Mary Mata January 17, 2014

By Associated Press/San Fracisco Chronicle PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court is to rule Friday on an appeal for a former border activist sentenced to death for the killings of […]

Mapping Hate Via the Daily Mail

Mary Mata May 14, 2013

From the textmex obsessed imagination of Memo Nericcio Hit the  image above, the “wetback tweets” graphic, for a link to GEOGRAPHY OF HATE website and the second image below, a more […]

Commentary: A Collective Silence Is A License To Hate

Mary Mata April 24, 2012

By Jim Estrada It is becoming clear that too many in our society have reached a level of comfort with overt expressions of bias and racial discrimination towards non-whites, especially […]

How A Florida Law Makes Trayvon Martin’s Death “Reasonable”

Mary Mata March 26, 2012

By Paul Adams On the 26 of February, a rainy night in Sanford, Florida, Trayvon Martin was walking through his neighborhood to get home to his father after buying Skittles candy […]

A Letter To Geraldo Rivera From A Hoodie-Wearing Black Latina

Mary Mata

By Jackeline Stewart Dear Geraldo, A three-piece suit and a tie would not have saved Trayvon Martin’s life.  Urging black and Latino parents to “not let their children go out wearing hoodies” and […]

The Libro-Traficante Caravan Hits The Road

Mary Mata March 19, 2012

By Belinda Acosta Librotraficante Caravan: Day 3—El Paso to Mesilla and Albuquerque, New Mexico It’s really quite amazing what a couple of laptops, three cell phones, an operational hotspot and […]

Fight For Mexican American Studies About The Future, Our Children

Mary Mata February 28, 2012

By Matt Mendez, Librotraficante.com I am waiting for Marjorie Ann — my wife, Marlo, is seven months pregnant with her. Our soon-to-arrive daughter is named after her grandmother, my wife’s […]

CafePress’ Anti-Latino Merchandise Is Repulsive, But Not New

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At first glance the Cafepress web page, filled with Anti-Mexican merchandise — t-shirts, bumper stickers and such — is repulsive. At second glance, it’s even more so. But it’s a sign of […]

Tucson Book Ban Is Just More Anti-Latino Rhetoric

Mary Mata January 30, 2012

By Richard G. Santos The State of Arizona has been foremost in anti-Mexican American legislation, ordinances and rhetoric in recent years. National boycotts and the U.S. Department of Justice and […]