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“Disgusted” and “Disappointed”: Newtown Shooting Victim’s Sister Carlee Soto to the Senate
April 23, 2013
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The younger sister of Vicki Soto, one of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting victims, had powerful words for the U.S. Senate last week after a crucial gun control legislation vote requiring background checks failed. Speaking on CNN, Carlee Soto expressed what millions Read More...
UPDATE: Published in HuffPo Politics! Immigration Bill: How to Make the Bad, Good
April 17, 2013
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The 844 page long “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” unveiled by the Senate so-called Gang of Eight is at best “C” level work. Click here to read the bill in its entirety. Reaching consensus on sweeping legislation Read More...
VIDEO: March on Washington: “What Comprehensive Immigration Reform Means to Me”
April 11, 2013
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In 2006 while a local television reporter in Providence, Rhode Island, I covered the immigration reform rally, one of many held throughout the country. Many in politics and the media marveled that Latinos had come out in big numbers. Fast Read More...
Wordless Wednesday/Miércoles Mudo SLIDESHOW: DOMA and Gay Marriage
March 27, 2013
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The Supreme Court hears two challenges to laws–California‘s Proposition 8 which bans same-sex marriages and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) signed into law by President Bill Clinton which prevents gay couples (married where it is legal) from receiving federal benefits, Read More...
SLIDESHOW: The Faces of the Great Immigration Debate: Holy Week Reflection on Latino Evangelicals
March 26, 2013
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As the push for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) geared up at the beginning of 2013, the mainstream media began incorrectly reporting evangelical support, as if this was new. Perhaps for white Christians. But many in the Hispanic religious community for Read More...
Yoani Sánchez Says Latinas Can Protect Cuban Dissident Bloggers
March 21, 2013
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Yoani Sánchez’s visit to the nation’s capital started off with a tweet. While reading my Twitter, I found out that the Cuban dissident blogger who writes Generación Y blog is touring the U.S., visiting New York City, Washington, DC, and Miami, Read More...
Wordless Wednesday/Miércoles Mudo: Cuban Dissident Blogger Yoani Sánchez
March 20, 2013
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On a three month world wide tour, dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez who writes Generación Y spoke at the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. For this Wordless Wednesday or Miércoles Mudo post, I show photographs snapped Read More...
UPDATE: Published in Latina Magazine! Meet New Congressman Joaquín Castro
March 15, 2013
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Capital Hill, Washington, DC I put in the interview request for Texas Democratic Congressman Joaquín Castro soon after he was elected in November–before he had office space and when his bare bones staff was still communicating on Gmail. I keep checking. Read More...