Members of the Suffolk County Hate Crimes Task Force. (Photo courtesy of longislandwins.com.)

On Nov. 8, 2008, Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, was murdered in the town of Patchogue, New York. Police say that several teenagers who called themselves the “Caucasian…

Opportunity is what brought many immigrants to seek work in the U.S. So what happens when opportunities are bleaker thanks to a recession? Some studies indicated that a few immigrants have returned home, and many others have chosen not to…

At a rally held in New Haven, CT on Saturday, June 16, marchers carry signs, including this one, to protest pre-dawn raids on immigrant families by the Department of Homeland Security. (Photo credit: Professor Bop.)

New Haven, Connecticut is a sanctuary…

Archival Photo - Denver 2006.

The complexity of the issue of healthcare reform when it comes to the Latino community cannot be overstated. In fact, there cannot be just one conversation about Latinos and healthcare reform. There must be a…

May 30, 2009 Healthcare Rally in Seattle. (Photo: Neil Parekh/SEIU Healthcare 775NW)

The complexity of the issue of healthcare reform when it comes to the Latino community cannot be overstated. As most people know, Latinos are not a racial group, but…

In ceremonies Saturday morning, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts administered both the Constitutional and Judicial Oaths to Sonia Sotomayor, making her the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court. To see video of the Judicial…

“This is either the longest suicide note in history or the juiciest, dirtiest, most delicious confession you’ll ever hear.” So begins the first novel from Josefina López.

A young American journalist—jaded by war and censorship—breaks off an engagement and heads to…

We learned one thing: don’t call Eduardo Galeano an historian. He says he’s a lover of reality, and some of that reality happened in another time, some of it happens on another map. In what he calls a “boundless” book,…

(from top) Judge Sotomayor, Senators Leahy and Sessions

Hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee began Monday 13 July for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.…

Diplomatic efforts, aimed at brokering a resolution to Honduras’ constitutional crisis, have continued this week. Reporter Trevor Snapp reports from Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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