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Commentary: By Dr. Lily Rivera Forget all the articles you’ve ever read that purport to explain why we celebrate Cinco de Mayo in the United States. They’ve got it all wrong. It’s not about celebrating a victory in a battle on the Fifth of May in 1862, in the City of Puebla, in the country [...]

Commentary: By Anthony Asadullah Samad There has been another raging discussion taking place over the past couple months, that of the school-to-prison pipeline. How many different ways can we say that the absence of investment in America’s intellectual capital causes – even promotes – devastating social consequences? And how many different ways can we assess [...]

Commentary: By Professor Ediberto Román and Bobby Joe Bracy After decades of inaction, the unveiling of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration proposal suggests that Congress may finally be prepared to reform our immigration system. It is of no surprise that this renewed vigor comes on the heals of a presidential election where an overwhelming [...]

Thoughts on Sal Castro By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez It feels like we have entered an era of turbulence. On a personal level, my thoughts are about life-long LA educator, Sal Castro. He passed away a few days ago. How do you explain who he was to someone who never knew him? In a way, [...]

Even though Latinos are increasing in number throughout the media landscape, their impact has yet to be felt. Commentary: By Jaime Dominguez What do a Pope, Pepsi campaign and American presidential election have in common? Because Latinos have been directly involved in each one of these significant moves in the arena of religion, pop culture [...]

Commentary: By Annette Fuentes When the National Rifle Association announced that it would unveil a plan in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school tragedy last December, there were some who predicted that, at last, the trigger-happy set would get real about gun safety. I was not one of them. Still, when the NRA [...]

Commentary: By Rodolfo F. Acuña Rank and file Democrats are desperate for a turnaround of their political fortunes, and an end of the Robber Baron era — so much so that they see the recent elections as their deliverance. For them, the last presidential election was a sign that the country is turning to the [...]

Commentary: By Nancy Landa When it comes to immigration, the political environment has a sense of déjà vu about it. It seems, we have been down this road before. A possible immigration reform deal that could have changed the legal status for many including my own was close at hand. 2001 seemed to be the [...]

By Randy Shaw Beyond Chron March 31 was Cesar Chavez Day in California and seven other states, but the New York Times, Washington Post and most other national media again ignored honoring the Latino and farmworker icon. While Google included Chavez’s face in its doodle, the national print media has failed to recognize Cesar Chavez [...]

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media In a week’s time the wide range of what was once considered routine GOP bigotry was on full display. Dave Agema, a former West Michigan state representative, and Republican National Committeeman called gays “filthy homosexuals. Next, Alaska Rep. Don Young blurted out the epitaph “wetbacks” in discussing the [...]

Commentary: By Steve Rodriguez What price diversity? That’s the question I now ask myself when watching the popular TV show The Big Bang Theory. Frequent viewing of this highly rated CBS show—now in its sixth season—has previously begged a more fundamental question: How can a show set in Southern California (Pasadena to be more precise) [...]

“Path to Citizenship” will include punishment measures By Eduardo Stanley Congressional representatives in charge of putting together an immigration reform bill are considering a so-called “path to citizenship,” the process by which undocumented immigrants living in the country may become legal residents and later citizens. But this path will include a long wait for those [...]

Commentary: By Raoul Lowery Contreras In 1994, millions of California voters voted for an amateurishly written unconstitutional hysterical piece of legal offal named Proposition 187. It would have forced hospitals to turn away American citizen child patients if both parents couldn’t prove their legal residency; it would have expelled American citizen children from school if [...]

Commentary: By Jean-Marie Caterina and Jose Gonzalez Business groups with an axe to grind against the Obama Administration, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business, like to push the idea that “uncertainty” over government actions is the monkey on the economy’s back. As small business owners who work in the [...]

Commentary: By Mark Martinez At some point this summer, the largest population group in California will quietly shift from white to Hispanic, the first time since California became a state in 1850. By 2020, Hispanics will represent almost 41 percent of the population, with nearly 2 million more Hispanics than whites — and topping 1 [...]

Commentary: By Katie Hirning, California State Director, AARP Legislators in Washington, DC are floating a little-understood proposal to cut federal spending. It sounds innocent enough. Both sides agree on the idea. But this “minor tweak” would demand further sacrifice from a group that has already given more than its share to America: our nation’s veteran [...]

Commentary: By Rodolfo F. Acuña A war on the memories of Mexican Americans and other minorities is occurring raging throughout the country, and I am interested in knowing why the right wing is so obsessed with erasing our historical memory? In places such as Arizona and Texas these zealots have used the power of government [...]