LGBT activists urge CNN to consider "Gay in America" series

A successful series presented by CNN titled "Black in America", and an upcoming series titled "Latino In America", has LGBT activists urging CNN to also consider a series titled "Gay in America". "With the popular...

Cambridge Police Caught 'Testilying' in Gates-gate Police Report

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and President Bill ClintonThe Cambridge Police Department has changed its story twice regarding where they got the information that the two people on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s porch were Blacks. As reported here yesterday, they first said the...

Creative Steps Day Camp Says No to Reinstatement Swim Club Offer

At a news conference yesterday, July 13, 2009, Creative Steps Day Camp director, Alethea Wright, surrounded by many of the parents of the children of the campers and their children, said the camp will not...

Creative Steps Campers Share Their Thoughts on Valley Swim Club

As some of the campers from Creative Steps Day Camp engaged in activities meant to fill their days with fun, their recent experience at the Valley Swim Club was not far from their minds. On June 29,...

Barak Obama's Anti-Christian View No Friend to Blacks, Church

     Since taking office, President Barak Obama and his allies in Congress have careened into the headlines and pummelled Republicans still reeling from defeat and dissent within their own...

Rush Limbaugh Compares Sonia Sotomayor to a Housekeeper

Rush Limbaugh further alienated Hispanic voters (from the GOP) by comparing Sonia Sotomayor, who is likely to be confirmed as the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, to a housekeeper."MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and...

Lax regulations open U.S. Military doors to White Supremacy

The U.S. Military's lax regulations are opening military doors to White Supremacy through recruitment of White-Supremacists, neo-Nazi's and gang members. "Since the launch of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the...

Duke decries Limbaugh comparison to Sotomayor

David Duke, former member of the House of Representatives in Louisiana, decries the comparison of him by Rush Limbaugh to President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor. " Former member of the House of...

In Defense of Sonia Sotomayor

by Yvette D. Carnell There is nothing so demeaning to political discourse as the injection of race as a weapon, so I’ve  become increasingly livid over the past few days while watching right wing hit squads refer to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a...

"Identity Politics" is Code Words for "Not a White Man"

According to the Washington Post's Peter Baker, of the 110 people who have served on the [U.S. Supreme C]ourt, only four were not white males. And yet the caption to his article states: "With President Obama’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, identity politics in America is...

Nuevo New Orleans: Latino Immigrants Remake the Crescent City

BY PETER HOLDERNESS[the story was originally published in March 2008 for Immigration Here & There, a Medill School of Journalism project - to the photo essay, "Portraits of Atletico, Louisiana"]Fernando Saucedo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on July 4, 2005, headed for...

Tweenage Dora the Explorer to Join Dora in new Mattel Line

Dios mio!  Dora's growing up! If you've had children, chances are you're familiar with Dora the Explorer - the 7 year old Latino girl doll that teaches kids Spanish phrases on her Nickelodeon TV series,...

DOJ Launches Hate Crime Investigation In Suffolk County

" The Department of Justice's criminal civil rights division has opened a formal investigation into hate crimes against Latinos in Suffolk County. The move comes in response to a public outcry following the stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero. The Ecuadorean immigrant was...

Lopez accused of 'worming' into inauguration

" Jennifer Lopez has been accused of "worming" her way into celebrations for Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. The singer and her husband Marc Anthony infuriated Democratic Party supporters after the pair agreed to appear at the Latino Inaugural Ball despite failing...

Nearly 10% of Latinos lag on mortgages

" Nearly one in 10 Latino homeowners fell behind in mortgage payments last year. That's the finding of a Pew Hispanic Center survey. The Hispanic research group also reports about 3% say they had received a foreclosure notice. The survey found that nearly half of respondents,...

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