Tag Archives: Hispanic

PRESS / Dick J. Reavis : Texas Tribune Lacks Regional Vision

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Texas Tribune. Image from UrbanGrounds.The Texas Tribune:Bells and whistles but little vision The Tribune mistakes numbers for people and information for insight. It is in no way culturally or regionally idiosyncratic. By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading →

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Judge Wiliam Wayne Justice : Hispanics and The Right to Vote

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Top, Austin polling place. Photo by T hom / Flickr. Below, Judge William Wayne Justice. Photo from Dallas Morning News.Judge Justice and single member districts:Bringing voting power to all TexansBy George Korbel / The Rag Blog / October 27, 2009 … Continue reading →

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Texas Tall Tale? Turning West Texas Blue

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Jackalope Postcards.West Texas: Can gray and brown equal blue? At some point in the future, the Panhandle and the Lower Plains will look and vote much like El Paso and South Texas… The only question is when. By … Continue reading →

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POETRY / Gregg Barrios : ‘El hijo de Frida y Diego’

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Photo from Yoreme’s Weblog See Video of Gregg Barrios reading ‘Chale Guerra,’ Below. El hijo de Frida y Diego I am the promised root born through artful inseminationI am the manchild borne through prehysteric supplicationI … Continue reading →

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Lisa Sánchez González on the Sotomayor Nomination : Fighting my Inner Cynic

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Barack Obama introduces his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a Boricua from the South Bronx. Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP.Obama nominates a Boricua from the South Bronx:A tease or a real slice of hope? By Lisa Sánchez González … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name? ‘César Chávez Blvd’ and Dallas’ Own Border Fence

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Supporters of renaming a Dallas street for César Chávez crowd a City Planning Commission meeting at Dallas City Hall.Dallas: Latino Heroes Need Not Apply right-wing, anti-immigrant forces… dig in their heels and draw their own border fence to block Latino … Continue reading →

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Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez : The Real Problem of the 21st Century

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

30 Rock’s Kenneth the page (Jack McBrayer): “What about white men?” I would go as far as to say that the defining problem of the 21st-century United States is not, as W.E.B. DuBois claimed of the 20th, the “color line.” … Continue reading →

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Richard Rodriquez : Why Churches Fear Gay Marriage

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Author Richard Rodriguez is Mexican-American, gay and a practicing Catholic. Photo by Christine Alicino / salon.com. As the American family fractures and the majority of women choose to live without men, churches are losing their grip on power and scapegoating … Continue reading →

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Ruling : Texas is Failing Limited-English Schoolchildren

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Judge William Wayne Justice issued landmark ruling. Photo by Kelly West / Austin American-Statesman.State in no hurry to fix big problemBy Lisa Falkenberg / August 7, 2008 The 95-page landmark ruling issued recently by Judge William Wayne Justice on how … Continue reading →

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Bigots (Mambo #1)

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Graffiti from Barcelona, Spain. “Los cerdos?” “The Pigs.” Photo by Duncan Cumming.‘I think he saw a dark woman, a human darkness, and that’s all he needed to see’By Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez A few days ago I went with a friend … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Mariachi Ad : What Were They Thinking?

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Manny Ramirez: The great guapón as Obama spokesman?Obamarama, Latin StyleBy Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez / July 26, 2008 Have you seen the Barack Obama mariachi ad? It’s on YouTube if you want to check it out. [See it below.] In a … Continue reading →

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Elvira Arellano on Truth and Hope

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Elvira Arellano. Photo by Steve Liss/ Medill. Elvira Arellano is the immigrant who took sanctuary at the church of Rev. Walter ‘Slim’ Coleman in Chicago, before she was arrested and returned to Mexico. She remains active and a spokesperson for … Continue reading →

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