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Alma Garcia

Alma Garcia

  During scorching summers, paleteros, the Spanish term for a street vendor selling ice cream, bring cool relief to the delight of sweat-drenched Houstonians. The legion of dedicated pedalers not only have to endure high temperatures as they hand out treats in some of Houston’s most dangerous neighborhoods, they are …

Boriqua artists don’t seem to have the difficulty which Chicanos do in getting booked on variety shows, such as Sabado Gigante, or in movies – and more power to them. You can count on the fingers of one hand, the number of Chicanos who have managed to get into Hollywood …

    Undocumented Hispanic students who applied for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals find that although they are lawfully present in the U.S., they remain ineligible to apply for many scholarships aimed at Hispanics because they do not fulfill the requirement of being a U.S. citizen or a permanent legal …
UH Downtown parking bus

Newly released documents show that UHD spent approximately $50,000 on a failed name change that caused widespread backlash from students, faculty and alumni.