1980s Cynicism, Drugs And The DARE Days

I grew up during some really strange times. Like 1989. We had already braced through eight years of Ronald Reagan, and George Bush was getting ready to take the helm. […]

By DeeDee Garcia Blase, Co-President of the National Tequila Party Movement May the death of Joaquin Luna not go in vain. DREAM Act student, Joaquin Luna, recently took his life in Texas. […]

By Elaine Dove I wonder about the girls and boys I see during the day at my once-a-week volunteer gig at a local school. Most of “my kids” at the […]

By Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, President of NHI Collegiate Leadership Network San Antonio, Texas — Each year the National Hispanic Institute invites the top Latino high school and undergraduates to San Antonio […]

That’s right, it’s over.  Those chubby-fingered, sticky-faced little charlatans have reigned for far too long, and, like Gaddafi, their golden age is behind them. Need Proof? Read on. There was […]

It should come as no surprise that, in the wake of Alabama’s anti-Latino immigrant law, sentiments towards Latinos in that state are becoming less than civil. If it wasn’t something […]

It was not unusual for me to be enrolled in night school when I attended East Los Angeles College. Classes would go until 10 p.m. and the student body’s groans […]

When I taught high school in the Bronx, the library was the place you went when you didn’t want to eat lunch, and you didn’t want to answer questions about […]

By Salomón Baldenegro In Tea Party Republican Arizona, teaching Mexican American history is illegal because that history is purportedly “un-American” and foments the “overthrow of the government.” The shamelessness of […]

By Dustin Mendus Education has come to the forefront as a Latino issue in the past few weeks due to disappearing Latino students in Alabama. It’s raised eyebrows. The concerns […]