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Regardless of how you feel about the outcome of the Zimmerman trial, we need to admit it: Zimmerman is Latino. He is one of us. Yes Latinos can be and are racists. We can and do vilify black men in the United States and in our home countries. We do not recognize our own racism...+
Family
Raise your money if you have sent money overseas. OK everyone put your hand down. We all have. Remittances are big money. In some countries the money we send back to our abuelas, tios and tias makes or breaks a country’s economy. Which is why any news about what companies are in this business is...+
Family
We not only need quality care we need culturally competent care. Which is why I loved Samuel Alcocer story. A moment of personal need was a rallying call to provide services to his community. One of his wisdom teeth had erupted into a throbbing, painful ache. At the time, Alcocer, a native of Santa Cruz...+
Civic Engagement
As we have mentioned before we love Latino Decisions As always they keep on coming up with new surveys and bring new insight to what and how we are thinking about. With forty-one questions about key policy issues and our opinions on current elected officials, there is a lot to parse out. Here are some...+
Choices
Immigration is painful. It hurts to leave everything you know. Language, food, climate, culture and professions are all left behind. New possibilities are ahead but so is failure. Immigration is full of angst. During this whole political grind we are currently going through we need to remember the personal cost to us all. So when...+
Politics
I am a first generation American. I love our constitution, bill of rights and pledge of the allegiance. It is the fabric that keeps us all together on the same page building this great nation. It is our common understanding regardless of where we live in our fifty states. It was well thought out and has lasted us until the twenty...+
Some of us are used to going to the free clinics, Planned Parenthood, or paying off hundreds of dollars of medical debt. While we can’t say this will no longer be a part of our lives the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will help out some. Let us be clear insurance is complicated and most of...+
Civic Engagement
Oh Senator Rubio forgive me. I am sure that as a child you were taunted by your peers by having your name continuously shouted out at the pool. The thing is you are loosing your center and you need to find it stat! Too many of us depend on it. After working with seven other senators in...+
Education
A day does not go by when I hear about a new educational platform. Apps, videos, unique platforms, Facebook additions you name it you can find it. They are available at every level from pre-school to college. Their courses vary as well, one thing that does not vary is the lack of diversity. Sigh not that again! Yes...+
Sometimes you can find love on Youtube! Dash Harris is my YouTube crush. Whenever her channel has a new video I need to watch it de una. She has documented the specific Latino racist beliefs in a way I have never seen before in any media. She has take on a complicated task of asking Latinos...+