The National Council of La Raza’s annual awards gala last night served a significant platform for expressing the organization’s ire toward the Republican Party. NCLR’s president, Janet Murguía, who once stamped President Obama as “deporter-in-chief,” redirected her outrage to the GOP, lambasting the party for a perceived “growing malignancy” toward immigration, their inaction toward true […]
Research group Media Matters launches campaign scrutinizing Latino news and ‘conservative misinformation’
Media Matters, the research group known for calling out “conservative misinformation” in the mass media, launched a Hispanic engagement initiative yesterday targeting rightwing organizations whose goal it is to politically influence Latinos through Spanish-language media. The program will highlight the lack of Latino voices in mass media and challenge stereotypes it perceives as damaging and […]
Comentarios From Maria: John Boehner’s lack of leadership and its disastrous consequences
We’ve seen this movie before, and we know that it does not end well. In 2013, Republicans in Congress demonstrated that they were willing to shut down the government and lead our country to the brink of disaster because the battle over the end of year budget did not sway in their favor. Now, Republicans […]
Rising population to a rising political force: Latino Victory Project works to elevate community voice
In the heart of downtown Washington, D.C. works a group of people seeking to mobilize, empower and elevate the 54 million-and-growing Latino community to turn out at the voting booths, put larger numbers of Latinos into political office with financial backing and, somewhere down the road, elect a Latino or Latina to the Oval Office. […]
In Miami town hall, Obama defends immigration policies, puts pressure on GOP
President Obama on Wednesday criticized Republicans for “trying to hold hostage” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding in a political fight to block his executive actions on immigration, and further challenged GOP lawmakers to pass a bill declaring said executive actions illegal, just so that he could veto it. With DHS funding set to […]
Obama heads to Miami to pressure GOP on immigration in exclusive Town Hall
In what has become a week of tough stances and staunch rhetoric, President Obama is following up his Monday proposal for stricter rules for financial brokers on Wall Street and his Tuesday veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline with an exclusive town hall meeting in Miami, sponsored by Telemundo, to enlist his strong Latino base […]
Shutdown looms as Homeland Security funding expires later this week
With the Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rapidly approaching, fears of a government shutdown reverberate through the streets of Washington and the halls of Congress, where President Obama’s contentious executive actions on immigration have drawn the ire of Republicans who have been attempting to attach amendments to prevent the implementation […]
Comentarios from Maria: Republicans have dug their own political grave upon suspending the President’s executive actions
Republicans have gone from bad to worse. On Tuesday night, February 17, a federal judge in Texas, Andrew Hanen, responding to the demand initiated by the GOP against President Obama, decided to temporarily suspend the President’s executive actions that would have provided protection to five million undocumented immigrants just one day before the program was […]
Rep. Nancy Pelosi leads congressional delegation on diplomatic mission to Cuba
In an ongoing effort to normalize diplomatic relations with the long-estranged island nation, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a coalition of congressional Democrats headed to Cuba yesterday to build on the strategies and initiatives introduced by President Obama in December. This marks the second trip since the Jimmy Carter administration in which a high-ranking […]
As American families embrace digital tools, online access less accessible for Latinos
Families across the United States have increasingly turned to digital tools for the purposes of education, but a new set of studies revealed a gap in opportunity to access these tools for Latino families to advance their children’s education. Tablets, e-readers, computers and high-speed internet are accessed unevenly between Hispanics and non-Hispanics, according to the […]
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