Washington D.C. Hate Crimes Increasingly Against Latinos, Whites

Washington D.C. Hate Crimes Increasingly Against Latinos, Whites

Mary Mata July 7, 2011

News from our nation’s capital: hate crimes are being redirected away from gays and lesbians and towards Latinos and whites. Interesting, right? Turns out the gentrification of Washington, D.C. has […]

Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty

Mary Mata July 5, 2011

Almost three years after the death of then-two year-old Caylee Anthony, her mother Casey was found not guilty in the death of her daughter. This was one of the most […]

Puerto Rico’s Hostile Environment To LGBT Leads To Murder

Mary Mata June 29, 2011

In 18 months, 18 people from Puerto Rico’s LGBT community have been killed, according to a report from Autostraddle. The murders are the result of homophobia, a tolerant political environment, […]

Attacking Racial Profiling In Texas

Mary Mata June 26, 2011

[Editor’s Note: The following post was written by the hosts of The TNA Show, a radio show every Friday night from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.] In Texas, the legislature […]

Texas Senate Passes Sanctuary Cities Bill

Mary Mata June 15, 2011

By Melissa Del Bosque After 9 hours of testimony Tuesday by Senate Democrats against SB 9, the controversial immigration bill passed anyway along a party-line vote. It’s pretty certain SB 9 will […]

“Mexican Hunters” Profiled Latinos At New Jersey Airport

Mary Mata June 14, 2011

Screeners for the Transportation Security Administration, TSA, spent about a year from 2008 to 2009 routinely profiling “Hispanic male passengers, especially Mexicans and Dominicans, to see if they had proper […]

New Details Emerge In José Guerena Case

Mary Mata June 9, 2011

So by now we’re all familiar with the story of the twice-Iraq deployed Marine José Guerena who was killed after a Pima County SWAT unit in Arizona shot him in […]

Latinos, Immigrants Comprise Half Of Federal Felons

Mary Mata June 6, 2011

A new investigation by the Associated Press found that almost half of those sentenced in federal court for felonies are Latino. These numbers are bolstered by immigration cases, the AP […]

New York Suspends Obama’s Anti-Immigrant Law

Mary Mata June 3, 2011

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he would suspend that state’s participation in the immigrant hunting operation known as “Secure Communities.” While the program is ostensibly set to target […]

SB 1070 Author Russel Pearce To Be Recalled In Arizona

Mary Mata June 2, 2011

Thousands of Arizona citizens have signed a petition to recall the sponsor of the state’s controversial anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, state Senate President Russell Pearce. Fed up with Pearce’s divisive […]