Garcetti Invokes Latino-Jewish Ancestry in Mayor’s Race

Garcetti Invokes Latino-Jewish Ancestry in Mayor’s Race

Mary Mata January 3, 2013

By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Click on picture to read story. [Photo by  Eric Garcetti]  

Latinas Eye L.A. City Council Seats

Mary Mata December 10, 2012

By Tony Castro, Voxxi Los Angeles hasn’t had a Latina City Councilwoman in a generation, but that may change this coming year. Three Latina politicians are running for two open Los […]

MALDEF Secures Unredacted Records in Rubén Salazar Case

Mary Mata December 7, 2012

PRESS RELEASE Litigation Settlement Prevents Sheriff Baca From Keeping Decades-Old Documents Under Wraps And Subject Only to In-Person Supervised Review LOS ANGELES, CA – On Tuesday, MALDEF settled its lawsuit against […]

LOS ANGELES: Oaxacan Indians, the Bonds & Binds of Tradition

Mary Mata November 22, 2012

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog In the background to the lives of many Oaxacan Indian migrants is the system of usos y costumbres, a system of Indian local governance in Mexico […]

The selling of Día de los Muertos in Los Angeles

NewsTaco October 31, 2012

By Tony Castro, Voxxi Leave it to America to merchandize Mexico’s traditional Day of the Dead, but nowhere is the selling of Día de los Muertos bigger than in Los […]

Lard, Cheese and the Rewards of an Unhealthy Childhood

Mary Mata October 17, 2012

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco I was a fat kid. I mean, fat. I was so fat; I would start to sweat if I stood still long enough. I would like […]

So, Archbishop, You’re Going to Tell Me How to Vote?

NewsTaco October 4, 2012

By Jesse Treviño, HispanicLatino That line could have come from King George VI played by Colin Firth in The King’s Speech.  The archbishop thought he was going to tell the king […]

Morning NewsTaco

NewsTaco September 20, 2012

Thursday September 19, 2012 North Carolina Sheriff Targeted Latinos; Called Them ‘Taco Eaters’ (Fox News Latino): A North Carolina sheriff and his deputies routinely discriminated against Latinos — whom he called […]

LOS ANGELES: A Bank Robbery in a Quiet Place

Mary Mata September 10, 2012

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporer’s Blog Simon Guillen has been on Atlantic Boulevard in East L.A. for 36 years, he tells me. He’s in real estate, been a notary, a […]

The Rise Of the Underdwellers

Mary Mata August 29, 2012

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco I was a teenage mess. I was constructed of acne, bad hair, and flannel shirts. There was so much rage, and that rage needed an outlet. […]