AltWeeklies Wire
Photos: La Nueva Generacionnew
Santa Cruz's Beach Flats neighborhood is a community in transition. The older generations, having immigrated mostly from Mexico, South and Central America, have started new families. Through their children, they are both changing the way that they’ve lived for decades and changing the way that the rest of Santa Cruz lives today.
Good Times Santa Cruz |
Curtis Cartier |
09-16-2009 |
Immigration
Looking for a Latino Uprising in Community Leadershipnew
Hispanics comprise Colorado Springs' largest minority, 12.7 percent of the population, but why is a search for a local Hispanic/Latino/Chicano movement difficult to find?
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
07-23-2009 |
Race & Class
The Blame Game Erupts Over Prop. 8new
With one exit poll showing 70 percent of blacks and 53 percent of Latinos supporting California's same-sex marriage ban, blacks and Latinos are being blamed for helping put Prop. 8 over the top. Only the Mormon Church has been slammed harder, by loud and passionate crowds.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
11-14-2008 |
LGBT
Dirty Secrets of the Real Estate Collapsenew
There's lots of blame going around for this economic crisis. How we got here was simple: too much credit and too much debt for too many years. But why are hard-working people, many Hispanic, losing their houses?
Reno News & Review |
Madeline Zook |
11-07-2008 |
Housing & Development
A Former GM of Hoy Bets on New Mag for Next-Generation Chicago Latinosnew
Café bills itself as a "Latino lifestyle magazine," and the first issue came off the presses last week. It's a free bimonthly that the founders hope will go monthly next spring.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
10-27-2008 |
Media
San Juan Capistrano's School Colorsnew
In San Juan Capistrano's schools, white kids are painted into one corner, Latino kids into another. How did this happen?
Yo Soy el Armynew
If you're an immigrant, at least Uncle Sam wants you.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Deborah Davis |
09-20-2007 |
War
