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...
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...
opinion by francislholland | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago 249 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
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...
created by Karen Hatter | 18 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago 807 views | 41 recommendations | 6 comments
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,...
created by Karen Hatter | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago 627 views | 30 recommendations | 10 comments
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...
opinion by Mortal | 20 wks ago | updated 20 wks ago 716 views | 36 recommendations | 18 comments
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...
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...
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...
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...
opinion by YvetteDC | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 90 views | 0 recommendations | 6 comments
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...
opinion by francislholland | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago 131 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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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,...
" 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...
" 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 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,...