Maria Hinojosa Breaks Down Why Saying ‘Illegals’ Is Wrong On So Many Levels

Maria Hinojosa Breaks Down Why Saying ‘Illegals’ Is Wrong On So Many Levels

NewsTaco October 31, 2016

*She called-out a Trump surrogate for using the “i” word. It was epic. VL By Carolina Moreno, Huffington Post Latino Voices (2 minute read) Journalist Maria Hinojosa knows that words matter, particularly […]

Latino Racial Slurs is the top trending topic on NewsTaco

NewsTaco October 24, 2016

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Top Latino Racial Slurs It’s a story written and posted in 2011 and this past week it got the top number of page views of all […]

An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’

NewsTaco October 13, 2016

*She’s blunt, but she makes a good point. I like how she uncovers the use of  “quality” to discriminate. VL By Marybeth Gasman, Washington Post (5.5 minute read) While giving a […]

The White Working-Class Wasn’t Tricked Into Racism By Trump, They’ve Chosen It, Historically

NewsTaco October 5, 2016

*A great explanation of how Trumpism is not new. Exclusion and blame has been imbedded in white American culture and politics for hundreds of years. This is a very good […]

Hundreds protest ‘racist’ Mexican-American studies textbook at Texas education hearing

NewsTaco September 14, 2016

*Maybe we should thank the Texas Board of Education for angering Texas Latinos. One of the organizers, Tony Diaz, says there hasn’t been this kind of community energy since the […]

The Textbook That Calls Mexicans Lazy

NewsTaco September 12, 2016

*We have to keep this issue alive and relevant. Share this, talk about it. VL By J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic (8minute read) For years teachers and activists in Texas had […]

Trump ‘wall’ gag at high school football pep rally draws cries of racism

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*This was reported yesterday. There’s a blatant reference to Trump’s wall. It keeps happening . . . VL By Sarah Mervosh, Dallas News (4.45 minute read) A suburban high school football […]

San Antonio painter Vincent Valdez unveils work on persistence of white supremacy

NewsTaco September 6, 2016

*This is well worth the reading time investment. The New York Times call the work “a selfie for 21st-century America. VL By Michael Agresta, The Texas Observer (16 minute read) A […]

Bus driver fired for pouring water on Hispanic 8th grader

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*Do you think incidents like this one have become acceptable or more common because of Donald Trump’s rhetoric? To what extent is he making overt racism a new normal? VL […]

Roughly half of Hispanics have experienced discrimination

NewsTaco July 1, 2016

*Latino millennials say they’ve experienced discrimination more than other age groups. Why do you think that is? (Without disparaging millennials . . .)VL By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Gustavo López, […]