What’d Happen Without Section 5 Of The Voting Rights Act?

I started thinking recently about what our country would look like in the future if Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) were to be declared unconstitutional. This is […]

Three of the largest Latino organizations in the nation announced a voter registration initiative as the importance of the Latino vote rises. As previously reported on La Plaza, the Hispanic Federation, […]

By Paul M. Saldaña El Niño is a warm current of water creating change in the climate of the Pacific Ocean, while at the same time, hefty thunderstorms occur on the […]

An interesting article appeared recently in The Society Pages, making the case that Latinos are more likely to engage in political protests and other groups. This comes at the same […]

By Elizabeth Heath Credit his record on social issues and a slowly reviving economy, or blame conservatives’ so-called “War on Women,” but a new poll shows that Barack Obama is winning over […]

We’re startlingly close to the Iowa caucuses, and even closer to the usual screams of voter fraud from both sides of the aisle — you know, the fear that Mickey […]

William C. Velásquez was born in San Antonio and had a long career of political activism mostly in Texas before he died at the young age of 44 in 1988. Among his […]

Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman is calling for the rejection of portions of the federal Voting Rights Act calling for providing voters with ballots in more than one language. Coffman said he […]

Depending on what level of redistricting you consider, Latinos in California have either lost out, or won out, according to Rosalind Gold, who is the Senior Director of Policy, Research […]

Before we begin mobilizing Latino voters for the 2012 presidential election, we must understand the population of available voters in our community as well as the total number of Latino […]