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No more leaving our issues in the hands of other “Latinos”. If the Republican Party wants the votes of the largest Latino Group, Mexican Americans, and its brothers Central and South Americans, they will need to negotiate with us, not with Cuban or Puerto Rican Americans.
One year ago this month (February 15, 2011) Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican Patriot imprisoned now for over 30 years by the U. S. was denied parole.
Lou Weaver, 41, is a female-to-male transgender who has been living as a male for the past four years and has been taking testosterone, the male hormone, for the past three. Just like many other transgender, he has decided that he will not live in the shadows or feel ashamed about who he is. [...]
It’s that time of the year again – the time when you reassess the promises you made to yourself in January and profess to the world: “This year, this year things will be different! This year, I will…” But somehow, these mostly empty promises have ended up in the back burner of your daily [...]
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) issued the following statement regarding tonight’s State of the Union address by President Barack Obama: “We applaud the President for expressing his strong commitment to building a 21st century immigration system and providing young people with the chance to earn their citizenship in his [...]
During the very first week of the new year of 2012 came news of the loss of Robert Carter and Gordon Hirabayashi, two giants in this country’s civil rights movement and two beacons of light for the Latino community. They died only one day apart. Gordon Hirabayashi is one of three fearless Japanese American [...]
Golosinas. Diversión. Caricaturas mañaneras. Tres cosas indispensables para la vida de un crío. Quién iba a decir que ese infante que aparecía en esas fotos llenas de color y vida se convertiría en ese joven que lo tachan de rebelde y ambicioso. “Mira que bonito chaval, ¿qué le paso?” son las palabras inmediatas de [...]
Muchas veces me cuestiono ¿cuándo se terminara el mundo? Tanto lo han anunciado que hasta parece burla. Hace unos días me encontraba en un funeral (algo típico de un ser humano). Como todos lo saben tenemos años de vida y después llegamos al descanso eterno (la muerte). Mi mirada se encontraba fija al cuerpo [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought not just for the equality of minorities, but for the equality of all. Rather than just kick back and relax on Martin Luther King Day, let’s take some time to learn about the man himself. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929. His anniversary, a federal [...]
Let’s view the political road to DC in 2012 as a fictional narrative based on real-life scenarios, empirical evidence and actual policy positions by present-day Presidential candidates. It begins on a one-way road historically designed to fit only two vehicles. The road is filled with potholes and obstacles, some necessary and potentially transformative [...]
