Hispanic and Latino Issues

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Banning Books in Arizona

Free the Books: Librotraficante Caravan Heads to Arizona to Create "Underground Libraries"

Goin' to Arizona​The folks at Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say are taking action against Arizona's attempt to eliminate Mexican-American studies in its schools. If Arizona is taking Hispanic-culture books out of its schools, they will bring Hispanic-culture books to Arizona. ... More >>

Special Christmas Gift Edition

Goin' to Arizona​The folks at Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say are taking action against Arizona's attempt to eliminate Mexican-American studies in its schools. If Arizona is taking Hispanic-culture books out of its schools, they will bring Hispanic-culture books to Arizona. ... More >>

Are More Mexicans Becoming Conservative?

And do teachers discriminate against students with Hispanic first names?

HISD Has More Grads, Fewer Dropouts

HISD​In a hurry-up afternoon press conference, Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier was able to say today that more of the district's students are graduating on time, fewer are dropping out -- and the improvements include every racial and ethnic student group. Grier was referring to data co ... More >>

Why Shouldn't Mexicans Speak Proper Spanish?

And is Spanglish something to Celebrate?

Redrawing Fiefdoms in Ye Olde HISD

Margaret DowningGene Locke walked HISD trustees through redistricting, Chapter 1​The Hispanic population continues to boom, the Anglo drip-drip-drip away to suburbia continues, there's a small decline among African Americans in Houston ISD and the district's biggest gain percentage wise is in ... More >>

Exactly How Safe Is Juarez?

Margaret DowningGene Locke walked HISD trustees through redistricting, Chapter 1​The Hispanic population continues to boom, the Anglo drip-drip-drip away to suburbia continues, there's a small decline among African Americans in Houston ISD and the district's biggest gain percentage wise is in ... More >>

Mexican Girls

Margaret DowningGene Locke walked HISD trustees through redistricting, Chapter 1​The Hispanic population continues to boom, the Anglo drip-drip-drip away to suburbia continues, there's a small decline among African Americans in Houston ISD and the district's biggest gain percentage wise is in ... More >>

Little Joe Y La Familia Heat Up Festival Chicano

​Miller Outdoor Theatre may self-combust tonight when the classic orquesta Tejana sounds of Grammy winners Little Joe y la Familia waft forth into what promises to be a temperate, perfect evening for music in the park. This marks the 31st annual Festival Chicano, one of the oldest such events ... More >>

Clever retorts and unloved yaktivists

​Miller Outdoor Theatre may self-combust tonight when the classic orquesta Tejana sounds of Grammy winners Little Joe y la Familia waft forth into what promises to be a temperate, perfect evening for music in the park. This marks the 31st annual Festival Chicano, one of the oldest such events ... More >>

Texas Is Not Obese!! Go Ahead, Eat That Cheese Enchilada!!

Illustration via Centers for Disease Control & Prevention​We are celebrating tonight in Texas. Everyone around us -- except New Mexico, and who counts New Mexico? -- is fatter than a heifer convention, while we here in the Lone Star State are svelte, health-conscious model types. In fact, you ... More >>

Snow: The Product That Will Wake Up Your Hip-Hop and Political Games

Let us be forthcoming about 22-year-old, San Jose, Calif., native Claudia A. Feliciano. We'd put her up against any female MC in the game, and we're confident she'd give anyone of them a run for their money... or take their money. She's a versatile, bilingual lyricist who can fluently chop you up i ... More >>

Hispanics And Texas State Parks, Part Two (The Weird Part)

​We asked Texas Parks & Wildlife for more details on the customer survey we wrote about today, and they have come through. And it's crazy enough to deserve its own post.TPWD provided a power point presentation of the study; scrolling through it we noticed a summary of focus-group research done ... More >>

The 2010 Census Launches the Latino Underground Into the Mainstream; Other Bold Predictions for the Coming Decade

Will Lil Young be one of this decade's breakout Latino rap stars?​ Can Latino hip-hop in Houston continue to thrive as a black-market force, of sorts, whose sales are invisible to the IRS, and evolve into a powerful underground economy without the acknowledgement or praise of mainstream music medi ... More >>

StoryCorps Historias

Houston's Latinos are invited to tell their own story

San Antonio Blogger Has Had Enough "Free South Park Mexican" Sentiment

Michael Hogue​A little over seven years ago, we wrote about the South Park Mexican trial. The rapper, born Carlos Coy, had it all: money, his own record label, a nightclub and, most importantly, the ear of a generation. He was the voice of a new type of person: the Southern and Southwestern Mexica ... More >>

Ceviche at El Sinaloense

​On the southwest side of Baytown, sandwiched between the giant ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery and the City Hall, is a neighborhood I call "old Baytown." It's an area of older shops and houses, with what appears to be a largely Hispanic population. Market Street runs through the middle of it. I c ... More >>

A Preview Of CNN's Latino In America: Disappointing, And Where The Hell Is Houston?

​CNN unveils its take on the Latino experience tonight with the widely publicized debut of Latino in America.Hair Balls admittedly enjoyed the broiled shrimp and free wine at the 50-minute preview two weeks ago when CNN was using Houston Latinos as a test audience for the program and we're somewha ... More >>

The Latest ACT Scores: Not Much Improvement In Texas

​The ACT scores are just out for the 2009 graduating seniors who took the tests as sophomores, juniors or seniors and it is not great news across the land, and certainly not in Texas. As far as biology goes, we're not exactly wowing the galaxy with our knowledge.And the ethnicity gap remains stark ... More >>

Immigration... and What's In A Name

​The ACT scores are just out for the 2009 graduating seniors who took the tests as sophomores, juniors or seniors and it is not great news across the land, and certainly not in Texas. As far as biology goes, we're not exactly wowing the galaxy with our knowledge.And the ethnicity gap remains stark ... More >>

Practicing patience, pendejos.

​The ACT scores are just out for the 2009 graduating seniors who took the tests as sophomores, juniors or seniors and it is not great news across the land, and certainly not in Texas. As far as biology goes, we're not exactly wowing the galaxy with our knowledge.And the ethnicity gap remains stark ... More >>

Pitbull

​The ACT scores are just out for the 2009 graduating seniors who took the tests as sophomores, juniors or seniors and it is not great news across the land, and certainly not in Texas. As far as biology goes, we're not exactly wowing the galaxy with our knowledge.And the ethnicity gap remains stark ... More >>

Punk en Español

The heavily Hispanic roots — and present — of Houston's punk scene

Was Cesar Chavez Really Against Illegal Immigration?

The heavily Hispanic roots — and present — of Houston's punk scene

Self-Hating Mexican Americans, and Rednecks of All Colors

The heavily Hispanic roots — and present — of Houston's punk scene

Mexican-American Culture

Special Back-to-School Edición

Who Is Chapulín?

Special Back-to-School Edición

Los Mocosos

American Us (Six Degrees)

This Charming Hombre

Morrissey's mad love among Mexican-Americans

Banana Republicans

A Hispanic GOP confab leaves delegates yelling foul

All Together Now

Latino performers put on a show for the holidays

Over the Rainbow

Democrats get their ticket. But can they get the votes?

Low Fidel-ity

There's more than just the Gulf of Mexico between musicians in Cuba and those from Cuba

Austin Shocker

Congressional redistricting: Dem disaster or Trojan horse?

The Authenticity Myth

The Mex-Mex issue

Best Community Newspaper

El Día

La Revolución Will Not Be Covered

El Día

Roping In Ratings

A rodeo ruckus riles rival Spanish TV stations

The Insider

A rodeo ruckus riles rival Spanish TV stations

Recuerda (And Celebrate Life) Muerte

Macario Ramirez is reconnecting Mexican-Americans to a forgotten cultural tradition and their own pasts. It's a tradition that Anglos are embracing, too.

Bitter Lesson

For 27 years, math teacher Phyllis Landes had a spotless record. Then the Texas Education Agency accused her of making racist remarks, and nearly ruined her school and her life.

In Denial

As HIV spreads among blacks and Hispanics, agencies that serve those communities say they're being shortchanged

Afternoon Delight

Every weekday from 3 to 7 p.m., KLAT's Carlos Martinez loves to talk about sex. Many in his Spanish-speaking audience adore him. But not everyone's happy with what he has to say.

Family Feud

As Latino literature moves into the mainstream, the ties that once bound grow frayed

Twilight of El Jefe

As Latino literature moves into the mainstream, the ties that once bound grow frayed

The Proposition

In Houston, illegal immigrants wait to see what hand California's Proposition 187 has dealt them