March 14, 2010 - CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate and President Barack Obama expressed outrage at the…
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Pinal County Jail, Florence, Arizona.
Earlier this year, Jacqueline Stevens, a visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the Berkeley Law School, UC Berkeley, wrote an article for The Nation about secret detention centers operated by…

Demographers say that in many growing areas of the country, Latinos are becoming a “majority-minority.” But the term “minority” has been one Latino USA has sought to avoid throughout the years. Maria Hinojosa explains why.
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Marcelo Suarez-Orozco is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Elisabeth Harrison is education reporter for public radio station WRNI in Providence, RI. She has a B.A. in…
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Cuban drummer, composer and educator Dafnis Prieto arrived in New York in 1999 and has since spent more than a decade influencing Latin and jazz music. At a summer concert in 2009, the New York Times said this of…
Central Falls, Rhode Island is not a region that immediately jumps out as being an immigrant Latino hotbed. But as the region has struggled with English as a Second Language and shifting demographics, the “No Child Left Behind” provisions of…