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Romeo Santos comes to Houston – Enter to win free tickets

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  AT&T Presents ROMEO SANTOS Formula Volume 1 US Tour Toyota Center Houston, Tx March 15, 2012 | 8:00PM Doors open at 6:30 ______________________________ As the principal composer and vocalist of revolutionary New York bachata group Aventura, ROMEO SANTOS became the leading musical voice of young U.S. Hispanics-fronting the top-selling Latin album of 2009 & [...]

Barbie is shelved for ‘taking over the souls of youngsters’

Barbie in Jail

  The conservative website Mashregh reported this week that the police has recently instructed toy stores in Iran to take Barbie dolls off the shelves and released an announcement that they can no longer be sold. As a result of the new instructions, some of Tehran’s large toy stores have started removing Barbie dolls and [...]

Latino elected officials react to State of the Union

Obama at the NALEO conference in 2008.  He has skipped the last three annual NALEO conferences.

  The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) issued the following statement regarding tonight’s State of the Union address by President Barack Obama: “We applaud the President for expressing his strong commitment to building a 21st century immigration system and providing young people with the chance to earn their citizenship in his [...]

U.T. DREAMers to help residents become U.S. citizens

ULI students push for immigration reform at all levels of government.

  Discouraged by the constant anti-immigration bills being introduced around the country, student activists at the University of Texas are determined get more minorities to the polls in this election year. The University Leadership Initiative will be hosting a citizenship drive. The event will allow eligible residents to work with immigration lawyers to fill out [...]

Banned authors, activists to smuggle contraband wet books into Tucson

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Houston novelist and radio personality forms a caravan to smuggle “banned” books back into Arizona. The event is in support of the now disbanded Mexican American Studies program, whose students had their Latino literature confiscated.

Robert Carter and Gordon Hirabayashi: Two giants in civil rights movement remembered

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   During the very first week of the new year of 2012 came news of the loss of Robert Carter and Gordon Hirabayashi, two giants in this country’s civil rights movement and two beacons of light for the Latino community. They died only one day apart. Gordon Hirabayashi is one of three fearless Japanese American [...]

Google and Wiki blackout: What is SOPA and why it’s important

Google is one many tech companies that are involved in the SOPA blackout.

  No it’s not Spanish for soup. The Stop Online Piracy Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who makes the request, the court order could include [...]

Latinos and the one-way road to the Iowa Caucuses: A fictional reimagining

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    Let’s view the political road to DC in 2012 as a fictional narrative based on real-life scenarios, empirical evidence and actual policy positions by present-day Presidential candidates. It begins on a one-way road historically designed to fit only two vehicles. The road is filled with potholes and obstacles, some necessary and potentially transformative [...]

NBA: Entrevista con Luis Scola

Luis Scola

Luis Scola habla sobre la derrota sufrida en casa ante el Oklahoma City Thunder, ademas de tambien brindar su opinion sobre el mexicano, y recien llegado a la NBA, Gustavo Ayon de los New Orleans Hornets.

Supermercado ofrece un pedacito de su tierra natal a latinos de Houston

Foto cortesía de Wikipedia.org

  En una ciudad densamente poblada por hispanos quienes traen a este país platillos tradicionales como las pupusas de El Salvador o el pastel de tres leches de Nicaragua, cuyos ingredientes no están siempre disponibles en un supermercado regular, la demanda por un lugar que ofrezca una carnicería, panadería y tortillería bajo un solo techo [...]

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