Familias Unidas Por La Educación sued El Paso Independent School District in federal court, claiming it closed three elementary schools Latino neighborhoods, put no bond money toward facilities in these neighborhoods but put all of it into whiter neighborhoods’ schools.
Read moreA South Texas man was charged and arraigned Saturday with revving a chainsaw and shouting racial slurs at people protesting police brutality and the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Read moreA federal class action claims that JPMorgan Chase Bank assigns Latino loan officers to branches whose clients lack the income and credit scores needed to qualify for loans but holds them to the same standards as employees at more affluent branches.
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The message from the third day of the Texas Democratic Party’s virtual convention was clear: Victories in the Lone Star State and the White House hinge on activating the black and Latino vote, which represents a growing swath of registered voters who historically don’t vote at high numbers.
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An Iowa woman accused of attempted murder for allegedly ramming her car into two minority youths on purpose is competent to stand trial, a state judge ruled.
Read moreThe Georgia Association Of Latino Elected Officials, et al., sued Georgia and Gwinnett County in federal court for mailing English-only mail-in ballot applications to residents of Gwinnett County (which has more than 202,000 Latino residents) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreEnraquita Lopez, M.D., sued the Medical Board of California for disciplining her for using the “fictitious” name Quita — the name she goes by — instead of her full name, a practice she says is no different from a doctor named Robert calling himself Bob, in Fresno County Court.
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In Joe Biden’s pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, he’s run repeatedly into a wall in the West, where Bernie Sanders’ strength among Latinos propelled his campaign even as he struggled with other groups.
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An accent mark of the official seal of the capital city of the nation’s most Hispanic state is in the wrong spot.
Read moreA day out from the critical Super Tuesday contest, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren rallied supporters in Los Angeles around labor and immigrant rights and hailed her campaign as progressive voters’ best chance to take back the White House.
Read moreSix employees sued The Home Depot for harassment and discrimination, claiming they were told repeatedly not to speak Spanish at work, in Monmouth County, N.J. Superior Court.
Read moreA federal court in New York ruled that a Mexican immigrant may pursue his false arrest and Equal Protection claims against police officers who arrested him during a traffic stop. The immigrant was a passenger in the stopped vehicle, and at the time of the arrest, none of the officers had any evidence of the plaintiff’s immigration status, they only knew that he primarily spoke Spanish and “appeared Hispanic.”
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Most Hispanic voters in Nevada are ready to boot President Donald Trump out of the White House and are throwing the bulk of their support behind former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, according to a new poll.
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An attorney representing the League of United Latin American Citizens told a panel of three Fifth Circuit judges Thursday the “winner-take-all” electoral voting method used in Texas and 47 other states across the U.S. negates votes cast by minority voters.
Read moreVice President Mike Pence rallied a Florida church full of potential Latino voters on Thursday evening by appealing to their faith and announcing a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidates descended on Nevada on Saturday in an attempt to build relationships with Latino voters and win the coveted endorsement of the powerful casino workers’ Culinary Union.
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Partisan frustrations over the 2020 census flared Thursday on Capitol Hill as House Democrats consulted experts on how to reach hard-to-count communities when the once-in-a-decade tally gets underway.
Read moreFlanked by her former Democratic rival Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren rallied supporters in Brooklyn Tuesday with her standard stump speech, calling for an end to financial corruption and a better life for America’s working families.
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Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid got a boost Monday from one of the top Latinos in the Democratic Party, as Julian Castro threw his weight behind the Massachusetts senator days after ending his own 2020 campaign.
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An Iowa woman who told police she intentionally ran over a teenager because she believed the girl was Mexican has been charged with another hit-and-run crash that hurt a 12-year-old boy.
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