As much as we wanted to pretend In the Heights would be seen the same as any other show on Broadway, us Latinos were crossing our fingers in hopes it would make it past any ethnicity barriers -- and it did.
Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
As grim statics come out that show our nation's unemployment rates have surged to 5.5 percent, Republicans have again tried to block assistance to the families that urgently need it the most.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Bush and the GOP's domestic fumbles are potentially Obama's biggest selling point. He must repeatedly remind voters that they should be mad about the economy.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
Clinton is a team player and while she won't get the VP nod, she'll hit the trail for Obama. Top Democrats will cheer her for it. Just be advised it won't do or mean much to or for him.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
History tells us that few people vote for a ticket because of the vice-presidential candidate. However, Bill Richardson could change the electoral map -- now, and for two generations.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
By dignifying anything that Limbaugh says, Kerry and Team Obama do a disservice to the success that Obama's retooled stump tactics had in making the Indiana race closer.
Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
We currently live in a society where people of color face dangerous and unjust inequalities -- in health care and beyond. It is a remarkably devastating reality that should not be tolerated.
Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
It is a shame that people of color continue to bear an unjust, disproportionate burden, while contributing significantly to the American mosaic.
Rep. Hilda L. Solis | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Cesar Chavez's work inspired me to find ways to help others and led me to civil service and I believe it's important to preserve his memory for future generations.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
I think my favorite benchmark of our post-racial society will be the birth of our post-racial champions on race. Add to the top of the list Keith Olbermann.
Robert Creamer | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
What America needs is a progressive political movement for change. You don't inspire people to be part of that kind of movement by telling them what they can't do -- to "get real."
Jose Manuel Simian | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
The fact that Doyle was the first Latina commanding a presidential run seems to have led some members of La Comunidad to believe that her ousting constitutes some sort of affront to all Hispanics.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Clinton's strength among Latinos has proved to be her margin of victory in the Super Tuesday popular vote, especially as the late California vote becomes evident.
Jon Wiener | Posted 02.02.2008 | Home
The Obama campaign, intent on taking some of the crucial Latino vote in California away from Hillary Clinton, organized a daylong door-to-door canvas ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 02.01.2008 | Home
Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are engaged in a fierce battle to capture the crucial emerging Latino vote during next week's s...
Claudia Cruz | Posted 01.28.2008 | Home
Vacations to Southern Florida usually involve visits to the beach, bike or boat rides through alligator territory, or day cruises to the Bahamas. Sel...
Al Giordano | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
The presumption that Clinton has been a leader on immigrant rights -- spun heavily by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other surrogates -- is not withstanding scrutiny of her actual record.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Younger black activists and elected officials are unlikely to feel any loyalty to the Clintons, are engaged by a post-baby-boom candidate and feel more in sync with Obama on the issues.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
The Arizona senator is one of the few who could erect a Latino barrier to the Democrat's wave of inevitability.
AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Hispanics are returning to the Democratic Party after several years of drifting toward the Republicans, with many saying Bush administration policies ...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
If you listened closely last night, you could hear echoes of the voter bloc that will, in the long term, counterbalance the weakening pull of the angry white voter.
Colorado Confidential | Posted 11.15.2007 | Home
On the heels of a campaign that helped one million Latinos begin the naturalization process, the same coalition is launching a massive get-out-the-vote effort aimed at Latinos in SW states.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
Last spring, Sojourners helped launch Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Following Congress' failure to pass meaningful reform, we have ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
Senator John McCain has announced that he will participate in a Spanish-language presidential candidates' forum on Univision. The event on the Spanis...
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Lauren J. Rivera | Posted 06.16.2008 | Entertainment