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Major League Baseball has dealt with one problem at Dodger Stadium—the McCourts’ wayward ownership—and now someone else will have to deal with another huge issue at Chavez Ravine: a coarsening of the atmosphere there bought on by thugs who have made it a less friendly place. According to the LA Weekly: Over the last five Read More →
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By Wendy Carrillo On April 8, after nearly shutting down the government, Congressional leaders agreed to a short-term budget deal that will cut $38 billion in spending for the last six months of this fiscal year. The spending cuts are the largest in American history and will likely have a disproportionate impact on Latinos and Read More →
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By Tomás J. Benítez On Opening Day, I spent some time on Facebook going back and forth with some friends who are Giant fans, razzing them for their flash-in-the-pan season. They gave it right back to me, boasting of a championship logo. Truth be told, I was cheering for them at the end of the Read More →
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By Chon Noriega While the Chicano Studies Research Center was opening its newly renovated library as a unique resource for students, community members, and scholars from around the world, UCLA was receiving worldwide media attention for student Alexandra Wallace’s now infamous YouTube rant, “Asians in the Library.” The video drew an immediate and sharp rebuke Read More →
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By Gary Orfield, Professor and Co-director, The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA Southern California is one of the world’s most diverse, urbanized communities with people from every part of the globe, no racial majority, and a sense that it is way ahead of the rest of the country. Certainly it is in terms Read More →
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By Oscar Garza/Senior Editor/Los Angeles Public Media It had been a while since I’d watched C-Span for any length of time, but there I was Wednesday afternoon, transfixed by the House of Representatives debating the DREAM Act. The debate was mostly predictable—Democrats arguing that the would-be beneficiaries of the bill are law-abiding patriots, Republicans maintaining Read More →
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By Erick Huerta/Guest Blogger Once, when I was seven, I fell asleep in Michoacan and woke in Boyle Heights. No joke. Now I am a bewildered 26-year-old undocumented college student, whose life may become a slightly less surreal dream if the DREAM Act ever passes, but only slightly less so. Sometimes I feel like a Read More →
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By Max Benavidez/L.A. Public Media We seem to be reaching a tipping point in our national illegal immigration saga. Buried under all the heated rhetoric is a moral test for America. In some respects, it is reminiscent of the deep divisions that marked the national discourse that led to end of slavery in the 19th Read More →
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By Diana Nguyen and Jen Wang/DISGRASIAN The December issue of American Vogue has a fashion story on a “new crop” of Asian models—never mind that most of them have been around for several years—who are, quoth the lady mag, “redefining traditional concepts of beauty.” Which raises the question, “traditional concepts of beauty” where, exactly? Because there are plenty Read More →
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By Jimmy Shaw, Founder/Executive Chef, Lotería! Grill The United Nations has announced that Mexican cuisine merits designation as an “intangible cultural heritage of humanity.” I couldn’t agree more that this very deserved recognition carries with it an important call to action to preserve the agricultural and culinary base that is at the very heart of this Read More →
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