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Vote To Get Celia Cruz’s Portrait In the Smithsonian
By Renée Saldaña, NewsTaco The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has teamed up with photographic artist Robert Weingarten to have one noteworthy historical figure’s portrait uniquely...
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The Declaration Of Independence: Full Text In English And Spanish
By Rebeldes, Latino Rebels It is still one of the greatest documents ever written. Take a moment to just read it, and separate it from the historical context and how this country was formed....
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The Next Greatest Generation
By Larry Bystran, Being Latino “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I...
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Latino Religion v. Latino Education
By Hector Luis Alamo, Jr., Being Latino A bit of nonsense is being stirred up by a Latino family in Texas: “A federal judge has ruled that a Texas school has the right to force a student to wear an ID...
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PBS Series “Latino Americans” Features 500 Years of History
PRESS RELEASE PBS SERIES “LATINO AMERICANS” TO BE NARRATED BY BENJAMIN BRATT AND INCLUDE INTERVIEWS WITH GLORIA ESTEFAN, RITA MORENO, HERMAN BADILLO, MARIA ELENA SALINAS AND MORE – Landmark Six-Hour...
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How a U.S. Guest Worker Program Worked Before
By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco With the Obama administration and the bipartisan senate Gang of Eight poised to move on comprehensive immigration reform soon, which may include an agricultural guest worker...
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Peru Archaeology Find – 5,000 Years Old Temple
By BBC News Archaeologists in Peru say they have discovered a temple at the ancient site of El Paraiso, near the capital, Lima. Entry to the rectangular structure, estimated to be up to 5,000 years...
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TX Legislators Would Cut Ethnic Studies in College Requirements
By Jacquellena Carrero, NBCLatino Students at public universities in Texas may no longer be able to take courses focusing on racial, ethnic or gender history to fulfill their core requirements for an...
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Hey, Mr. Anti Immigration Man, Can we see Your Grandpa’s Papers?
By Comic Saenz, Pocho Ñews Service Bend the Arc, a Jewish social justice organization, just introduced an online legal widget that applies immigration laws to your family’s history. Answer some...
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New PBS series ‘Latino Americans’ shines light on Latino history in U.S.
By Federica Longo, Voxxi Latino history in the United States has been obscure until now. A new documentary series narrated by actor Benjamin Bratt will chronicle the history of Latinos in the United...
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The White Working-Class Wasn’t Tricked Into Racism By Trump, They’ve Chosen...
*A great explanation of how Trumpism is not new. Exclusion and blame has been imbedded in white American culture and politics for hundreds of years. This is a very good read, worth your time. VL By...
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6 Ways Latino Advocacy Has Shaped Our Education Policies
*This is very good. My recommendation for your lunch break read. It’s an 11.5 minute investment. VL By Raul A. Reyes, NBC News (11.5 minute read) Did you know that the nation’s first successful school...
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The forgotten history of how Latinos earned the right to vote
*The battles for equal educational rights for Latinos go back many, many generations. And many of those historic battles started in Texas. This is a good read for perspective, context, truth. VL By...
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The War of Santa Anna’s Leg Takes a Big Step Forward
*And then there’s this. It has nothing to do with the election, thank goodness, but that leg needs to go home. *smirk* VL By Will Conneros, The Wall Street Journal (5.5 minute read) SPRINGFIELD,...
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A century and a half of Latino responses to anti-Mexican politics
*Terrific read! There’re some good historic points – we’ve seen this before. VL By Raúl A. Ramos, Texas Tribune/TribTalk (4 minute read) Bad hombres, rigged elections and dangerous immigrants sound...
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El Paso man did not let discrimination stop him from helping UT win 1953...
*I love this story! Richard Ochoa won the 1953 Cotton Bowl MVP award. He was a University of Texas running back who ran for 108 yards in the game. Here’s what I hate about it: despite his achievement...
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Eugenics in the Trump Era
*To understand eugenics is to understand some of the motivation in the Trump White House. It cloaks raw bigotry in scientific terms and fills public discussions with dog-whistle racism. Please, don’t...
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Loving v Virginia and its legacy for Latinos: interracial marriage fifty...
*As much as Trump may want to build a wall to keep us out, and as much as white America may want to vote us out, America is browning, irreversibly. Four-in-ten interracial marriages include Latinos. VL...
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Texas High Schoolers Rise Against Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Law
By Viri Sanchez and Karla Quinones (2.5 minute read) Four months ago, on February 16, thousands of high school students across Texas joined in a collective effort to stand up against hate. On that...
View ArticleGerrymandering: Moving from ‘cracking’ and ‘packing’ to fairness
On Oct. 3, the United States Supreme Court heard Gil vs. Whitford, a Wisconsin case regarding extreme partisan gerrymandering of the Wisconsin Legislature. In that case, Republicans drew a legislative...
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