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Guest Voz: World War II generation of Mexican-Americans made huge strides in civil rights movement

Apr 11, 2014, 1:29 PM 0

By Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez LatinaLista For the Mexican-American World War II generation, the call for action arrived at different times: In Corpus Christi, physician Hector P. Garcia, recovering from a serious kidney ailment in 1947, listened to Spanish-language radio as…

General, Immigration, Palabra Final, Social Justice

Dodge City: a fired reporter, a defendant’s guilty plea and new rumors of assaults on Hispanic inmates

Mar 25, 2010, 2:32 PM 3

LatinaLista — Last month, Latina Lista reported on the case of Sam Bonilla, a Dodge City, Kansas legal resident who claimed to be acting in self-defense when he fired shots at two men he said were playing a game…

Education, General, Guest Voz, Women, Youth

Guest Voz: One Latina high school dropout declares, “I am one of the Lucky Ones.”

Aug 28, 2009, 3:54 PM 9

LatinaLista — This week, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) joined together to release a new study about the Latina dropout crisis. Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation examines…

Guest Voz, History, zNew Headline

Guest Voz: World War II generation of Mexican-Americans made huge strides in civil rights movement

General, Immigration, Palabra Final, Social Justice

Dodge City: a fired reporter, a defendant’s guilty plea and new rumors of assaults on Hispanic inmates

Education, General, Guest Voz, Women, Youth

Guest Voz: One Latina high school dropout declares, “I am one of the Lucky Ones.”

General, Multimedia, Online, Technology

MALDEF site to provide live streaming of Sotomayor confirmation hearings

General, Government, Immigration, Palabra Final, Social Justice, Youth

Justice needs a helping hand in the case of Luis Ramirez