Latino News and Opinion

In April Pa. Governor Tom Corbett got a bit of attention for a comment he made on the “Ask the Governor” program on the web site PAMatters.com.  He said: “There are many employers that say, ‘We’re looking for people, but we can�

Eva Longoria’s much hyped new television show, “Devious Maids,” which is set to premiere June 23rd, is a Latina mother’s nightmare. Hot Latinas in tight little dresses to imply their assets are their asses ... wielding brooms, mops and feathe

Yesterday the blog, Think Progress, picked up a video from our web site, and before we knew it, Salon, Philly.com, the Huffington Post, and a number of other web sites followed suit. It even spawned a few internet memes. 

Investigating, limiting and silencing press is the slipperiest of slippery slopes 

In a reversal that has frustrated victims, witnesses, human rights advocates and the international community who has been observing, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala has decided to annul the recent judgement of the Supreme Court which found ex d

What does it mean to be Latino in the United States? For many, it means recognizing that society has a limited view of who we are. 

 This week’s big U.S. Latino-related news was Jason Richwine’s resignation from the Heritage Foundation after it was revealed that the senior policy analyst’s doctoral dissertation made the argument that immigrants — characterized as maj

Hundreds of amendments proposed for Senate reform bill

After Disney applied for a trademark for the title of one of its upcoming Pixar movies, Día de los Muertos, the Latino twitterverse and blogosphere exploded at the news.

The Latino parishioners of La Milagrosa who have been fighting to keep the landmark church’s doors open, have formed the “Salvemos La Milagrosa Committee” which is seeking to address the closure on a number of fronts, including litigation. 

This past Sunday, April 21, a group of parishioners of La Milagrosa gathered to protest the closing of the most visible symbol of the history of Latino Catholicism in the city of Philadelphia. 

If there are any winners in the immigration reforms set out by the bipartisan Senate “Gang of 8” in the 844-page bill they released Tuesday night, it would have to be big business ...

Helen Ubiñas, a Latina columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, created a minor stir with the column that appeared in the April 1 issue of the paper. In it, Ubiñas proposes that it is time to change the name of Philadelphia’s iconic “Italian

A petition has gone global. There are plans for a hundreds-strong last Mass, and the Facebook page is full of generations of Latinos reminiscing about its significance. 

More than half of Latinos favor legalizing same-sex marriage.

As a Latino, how you answer that question may depend on your age.

At Chávez’s death, an opportunity for the United States It is quite possible that the only president of Latin American countries most non-Latino Americans can reliably name is Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, who died March 5 at the age of 58. The rea

It used to be that the only time anybody on this side of the Straits of Florida got a good look at the stars of the Cuban national baseball team was during the Olympics. But, of course, that began to change in 2005, when the International Olympic Com

Lili Daliessio, a Colombian designer, presented her Spring/Summer 2013 collection during Philadelphia Fashion Week. 

Ex-police officer cleared of assault charge despite video evidence In Philadelphia it is better to be Jonathan Josey than it is to be Aida Guzmán. The 39-year-old ex-police lieutenant was caught on video hauling off and hitting Guzmán in the face