Remembering Gus Garcia, Mexican-American Civil Rights Pioneer

Remembering Gus Garcia, Mexican-American Civil Rights Pioneer

Victor Landa July 27, 2017

By Raul A. Reyes, NBC News (7.5 minute read)   In his heyday, Gus Garcia cut a dashing figure in Texas legal and social circles. He was a key member […]

Mexicans Ain’t White: The Gus Garcia Story

NewsTaco July 18, 2016

*This is a worthy read, well worth the time invested (it’s only 7 minutes) because not much is known these days about the brilliant jurist Gus C. Garcia, and more […]

Pro-immigrant rights Pilsen church vandalized twice

NewsTaco March 30, 2016

*It’s part guilt-by-association. You see, Lincoln United Methodist is the sister church to Adalberto United Methodist, and Adalberto United is in Humbolt Park, which before gentrification was a Puerto Rican […]

Leading Latino demographer, Dr. Jorge Chapa, passed away this week

NewsTaco October 22, 2015

*Dr. Jorge Chapa, a noted and important Latino demographer, passed away on Tuesday in Urbana, Illinois. Former MALDEF attorney and St. Mary’s University Law Professor Al Kauffman was his friend […]

How a federal judge navigates immigrant birth rights in Texas

NewsTaco October 19, 2015

*Here’s another case that will eventually end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. A Texas Judge has refused to issue a stay in the case where the birth certificates of […]

Cop Threatens To Send Latino Family ‘Back To The F**king Border’

NewsTaco September 28, 2015

*An online petition has been organized to remove officer Roy Bordamonte from the Passaic PD. So far, the petition has 2000 signature. VL By Hilary Hanson, Huffington Post Latino Voices Footage in […]

Parents at school where Latino kids ate on floor say they plan to roll up sleeves, take action

NewsTaco August 25, 2015

*When the parents found out the principal had their kids eating on the floor, the collected 130 signatures on a petition to have her fired. She resigned. VL By Fox […]

For Latinos, 1965 Voting Rights Act Impact Came A Decade Later

NewsTaco August 7, 2015

*For Latinos, 1975 was just as significant as 1965. The VRA extension of that year ended language discrimination at the polls. VL By Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News Gloria Molina has […]

Sobremesa: A Conversation with Al Kauffman, a front row view of Latino civil rights

NewsTaco July 30, 2014

Who is Al Kauffman? If you’re not from Texas, or a student of U.S. Latino civil rights, that’s a valid question. I was at one of those fundraising rubber chicken […]

Has the New Voice for Latino Civil Rights Arrived?

Mary Mata January 17, 2013

By Latino Rebels Is the new voice of civil rights for US Latinos here? Maybe so, if you listen to what the Rev. Sam Rodríguez, the the fortysomething evangelical president of the […]