By Obed Manuel LatinaLista “Them Hispanics work hard as hell,” Jesse Durr tells Vice correspondent Thomas Morton during a segment of Friday’s new episode titled “Sweet Home Alabama.” Durr was one of the few people in Alabama who took…
April 11, 2015 ATLAPA Convention Center Panama City, Panama 2:46 P.M. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA: This is obviously a historic meeting. The history between the United States and Cuba is obviously complicated, and over the years a lot of mistrust…
By Obed Manuel LatinaLista Activists from all over Texas gave more than 12 hours of public testimony in an attempt to keep a Texas senate bill that would repeal a 14-year-old law that allows undocumented students to pay in-state…
LatinaLista — There are 104 women serving in the 114th U.S. Congress – 32 percent are women of color. The Center for American Women and Politics reports that 11.5 percent of the 78 women serving in statewide elective executive…
LatinaLista — Dr. Steve Murdock, founding director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University and former director of the U.S. Census Bureau, has long been sounding the alarm to legislators and policy makers of…
LatinaLista — Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, reiterated to reporters on an afternoon telephone conference call that despite the overnight ruling from a Texas judge halting the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood…
LatinaLista — A new analysis of the “changing face of America” reveals that the diversity experience depends a whole lot on where you live. In WalletHub’s latest report, 2015′s Cities with the Most and Least Ethno-Racial and Linguistic Diversity,…
LatinaLista — Filing government or legal paperwork is a necessary eye-crossing task that most of us have to do more often than we like. Thank goodness we live in the tech age. Software and/or websites have been created to…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Bring The Hand That Feeds to Your Community The news can’t be turned on without hearing something about immigration, economic inequality, low-wage work (including fast food), or rising social unrest. But how often is a feature…
LatinaLista — While there has been a big slow-down in undocumented immigrants trying to cross from Mexico into the United States, the fact is there are still many still willing to risk their lives to enter illegally. Not necessarily…
LatinaLista — Ever since President Obama issued his Executive Action to address immigration last week, Republican leadership has been on a rampage threatening everything from legal action to predicting there would be riots in the streets and our southern…
LatinaLista — The latest piece of information that bolsters the argument that now is the time to act on reforming immigration comes from the Pew Research Center. A new report cites the decline of undocumented immigrants in 14 states,…
By Mariana Santiago Latina Lista DALLAS — Ramiro Luna was a student at Mountain View Community College when he began organizing protests on behalf of young immigrants who wanted to earn their degrees and work as professionals in the…
LatinaLista — The headline from the latest national poll targeting Latinos summed up the overall results of the survey as, “Poll of Latino families finds optimism despite many obstacles.” Yet, a deeper look into the findings reveals that there’s…
LatinaLista — It’s an understatement to say that the GOP sweep of Tuesday’s midterm election has hogged the headlines of the past two days. Lost amid all the same-old, same-old political rhetoric are two congressional milestones that aren’t getting…
LatinaLista — It seems like an understatement to write that tomorrow is a midterm election given the volume of social media, email and television commercials over the past month reminding us to get to the polls. Every “Get out…
By Mark Burd Futurity When political races are competitive, both Democrat and Republican voters favor candidates who are more strongly conservative or liberal, new research shows. The findings contradict conventional thinking that holds close elections swing appeal to the…
Center for American Progress Women and girls continue to benefit from dramatically increased educational opportunities. Due in large part to the success of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, more than half of the associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s,…
LatinaLista — Diversity is a concept everyone understands but it’s a practice that (surprisingly) is getting more pushback these days than ever before. From Silicon Valley to mainstream media newsrooms, diversity is increasingly having a polarizing effect on people…
LatinaLista — Two weeks ago, at the annual conference of the William J. O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a group of economists, policy analysts, academic researchers and anthropologists gathered to…
LatinaLista — National polls have been showing that more and more Latinos have become disenchanted with President Obama. So much so that some Latino organizations have issued a warning to Democrats to not blame the Latino electorate if the…
LatinaLista — Latino voters have the opportunity to, as they say, “rock the vote.” Unfortunately, in most elections, we can’t even accomplish a slight nudge. Though Latinos comprise 11.3 percent of all eligible voters, the civic duty of showing…
By Rebecca Burns In These Times Each afternoon in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, 70-year-old Cuala resumes her quiet game of cat-and-mouse with police. After spending a few hours openly hawking cool drinks or hot chocolates from a cart, the…
LatinaLista — A new Pew study finds that contrary to popular belief, the undocumented population in the United States is no longer growing and is stabilized at 11.2 million. When the recession hit in 2007, several main industries that…
by Gary Segura Latino Decisions In a matter of weeks or even days, we anticipate that President Obama will articulate some changes to immigration administration and enforcement that will provide some security to undocumented persons living and working in…
