KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A national Hispanic civil rights group that pulled an earlier event out of Kansas City, Mo., to protest the appointment of a memb...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist-turned-activist Jose Antonio Vargas will receive the National Council of La Raza Public Service Award on March 5...

While Latino children have made gains in several areas such as health insurance coverage and preschool attendance, the reality is that Latino children, as well as black children, lag far behind their white counterparts in almost all measures of child well-being.

On the final day of the race to register voters in 16 states and the District of Columbia, Florida is reviewing a crop of complaints involving alleged...

While some are content to wait on job recovery to fix our foreclosure mess, economists are telling us that a revitalized housing market will create jobs and is necessary to move our entire economy forward.

And while Gov. Romney and President Obama lay out their cases for how they plan to guide this country through the economic crisis to recovery, they seem comfortable leaving families in the dark about how they plan to stem the bleeding in the housing market.

The problem, however, seems to be that this candidate either doesn't remember all that encompasses the "American Dream" or, more troubling, doesn't have a plan to fix one of its basic elements--homeownership.

Paul Ryan, Senator Alan Simpson and former white house staffer Erskine Bowles argue that we should slash middle class benefits, raise the retirement age, and cut cost-of-living protections that would hurt the lowest-income seniors

Two years is welcome certainty for a sluggish economy but a blink of an eye for policymaking. NCLR is committed to monitoring implementation of transportation reauthorization and helping to pave the way for strong legislation in 2014.

Florida is one of a number of states that have implemented some major changes to its voting laws. The changes have an especially big impact on Latin...

Geithner's public statement in support of principal reduction is cause for celebration, but DeMarco has further entrenched himself as the major obstacle to taking principal reduction to scale. The enduring housing crisis requires bold steps and true solutions.

Without a doubt, more needs to be done to protect all borrowers from predatory lending and steering. Financial companies on Wall Street must be held accountable with tougher rules and enforcement to prevent the practices that caused the financial crisis.

LAS VEGAS -- In a Tuesday speech in front of Latino activists, advocates and voters Vice President Joe Biden described how a Mitt Romney victory in No...

Can't make it to the National Council of La Raza Annual Conference? No worries. LatinoVoices has got you covered. We will be live blogging the who...

This year's National Council of La Raza's annual conference promises to be bigger than before. The 4-day conference will be held will July 7–10 ...

President Barack Obama might have made a splash at last year's National Council of La Raza's conference, but the event was also jam-packed with high-p...

The Latino civil rights group, the National Council of La Raza, is headed to Las Vegas for its annual convention. Members expect to address recent cha...

On Saturday, July 7, history will be made as NCLR presents its Annual Conference and National Latino Family Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. As we are aware, this is all happening in a presidential election year where the Latino vote is more powerful than ever.

MIAMI -- One of the nation's foremost Latino civil rights organizations has selected for the first time a Cuban-American to chair its board. The Nati...