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For a Latino community that lost 2/3 of its net worth in the housing crisis, new paths to wealth and prosperity are sorely needed. The tech sector means the future of wealth building must include an expansion of minority tech entrepreneurship.
Two years ago, we fought for and achieved a law that stood to make health care better for those who already had coverage and provide affordable insurance for the millions who did not. The naysayers have yet to produce a better solution
The unimaginable hardships these families face on the way to the United States are a testament to the desperation and fear that drive them to leave their home countries.
To commemorate 20 years of diplomatic relations between Havana and Minsk, Raúl Castro received the man who is considered "the last dictator in Europe" at the Palace of the Revolution.
Racism has clearly emerged as a significant factor underlying opposition to the Affordable Care Act and must be a part of any honest attempt at understanding how some Americans formed opinions about it.
In the past two years, Teach For America has nearly doubled the number of African American corps members from 390 to 720, and has increased the number of Latino corps members from 300 to 550.
Also lost in the reporting on the Supreme Court decision, is the central political fact about Arizona's racial profiling law: both Democrats and Republicans, both Barack Obama and Jan Brewer, made the 'papers, please' provisions of SB-1070 possible.
For Colorado's LGBT families, the prospect of doubling Colorado's LGBT representation in the legislature with an openly gay Speaker at the helm can restore hope that same-sex relationship recognition legislation will pass in the next session.
This decision has posed a question for states around the country: do they want to follow the Arizona example? Or do they want to follow a different path?
For the first time ever, a woman could win Mexico's presidential election. Recently Vázquez Mota added an unexpected twist to the campaign by asking her female followers to withhold "hanky panky" until their husbands agree to vote.
For many Latinos in these seriously impacted parts of the country and for many who work outside in the heat or live in areas that don't meet clean air rules and are struggling under healthcare costs, the risks of climate change are real.
Technology is not a panacea, only a means to an end. Increasing access to broadband and the Internet are an important first step, but we also need to find better ways of applying this technology to accelerate progress and prosperity for all.
Just like a week ago when President Obama showed Latino voters that he was serious about keeping his promises, this is the president's chance to show the LGBT community the same thing.
Those brown and black LGBTQ people have been bleached from the written history of that night. Many LGBTQ blacks and Latinos argue that one of the reasons for the gulf between whites and themselves is the fact that the dominant queer community rewrote the narrative of Stonewall.
When regressives talk about "preserving and protecting" the nation, be warned: They mean securing our borders, not securing our society. Within those borders, each of us is on our own. They don't want a government that actively works for all our citizens.
All told, instead of the 800,000 immigrants covered by President Obama's order, Mitt Romney's plan might cover a few thousand immigrants, only a small portion of whom might be Latino.
As I predicted several weeks ago, SB 1070 has been left essentially toothless. While it may require state law enforcement to make immigration status determinations, there isn't much that the state can do with the determinations once made.
Romney's speech at the National Association of Latino Elected Official's (NALEO) conference had been billed as an opportunity for a candidate, who is struggling to connect with Hispanic voters, to re-orient his message to this core voting block. He did not.
