Compton Latino gang members and race

Compton Latino gang members and race

Mary Mata October 17, 2013

By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog Two Latino gang members from Compton are scheduled to plead guilty on  Thursday, Oct. 16, to federal hate crimes in attacks on black youths […]

Asylum From Violence

Mary Mata July 23, 2013

By Andres Caballero, Latino USA After the kidnapping and beheading of the police chief in a Mexican border town, no one dared to replace him. But Marisol Valles Garcia, a twenty-year-old […]

Documentary Investigates Sexual Exploitation at Farms Across the U.S.

Mary Mata June 25, 2013

By Neil Genzlnger, New York Times Plenty about the ways that much of our food is raised and processed is dismaying. Tuesday night’s “Frontline” on PBS, “Rape in the Fields,” makes the […]

California’s ‘Night Stalker’ Richard Ramirez is dead

Mary Mata June 10, 2013

By Tony Castro, Voxxi They called him the “Night Stalker,” and in the mid-1980s he terrorized Southern California as the demonic serial killer leaving satanic signs at murder scenes and […]

Lawsuit: Mother Murdered in Mexico After Wrongful Deportation

Mary Mata June 6, 2013

By John Michaelson, Public News Service MERCEDES, Texas – The murder of a young woman following her deportation to Mexico in 2009 has led to a civil rights lawsuit against the […]

David Sal Silva: An American Tragedy

Mary Mata May 30, 2013

By Nick Belardes, Latino Rebels Latino Rebels will be running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nick Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ first […]

CA TV News Links UFW Flag with Gang Activity

NewsTaco May 29, 2013

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Taquista Benito Juarez alerted us to this story this morning. San Francisco television station KRON aired a report about an escalation in gang violence in East […]

Cleveland Kidnapping Shines Light on Latino Community

NewsTaco May 24, 2013

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco We have tiny attention spans. I won’t expand further, you can Google it yourself; here’s a LINK to get you started. I mention this because it’s been […]

Kern Residents — Fatal Police Beating Didn’t Happen in a Vacuum

Mary Mata May 20, 2013

By Sandy Close and Raj Jayadev, New America Media BAKERSFIELD, CA. — Abusive behavior by law enforcement officers in towns across Kern County and neighboring Tulare County has generated distrust and […]

California Sheriff’s Department Under Investigation For Beating Death

Mary Mata May 15, 2013

By Andrew O’Reilly, Fox News Latino The sheriff’s department of a California county is under fire after several officers were involved in an altercation that led to the death of […]