Hispanic and Latino Issues

Angel Behind Bars

Letters

Mexican Consulate Whiffs on Which of Mayor Newsom's Wives Will Speak at Book Launch Tonight

We'll bet you any amount of dollars or pesos that this woman won't be speaking at the Mexican Consulate tonightA press release from San Francisco's Mexican Consulate plugging tonight's launch of "Women of Conscience," a book about Latina women in California, contained a lot of big names: United Stat ... More >>

Aisle Seat

We'll bet you any amount of dollars or pesos that this woman won't be speaking at the Mexican Consulate tonightA press release from San Francisco's Mexican Consulate plugging tonight's launch of "Women of Conscience," a book about Latina women in California, contained a lot of big names: United Stat ... More >>

Luna Tics

We'll bet you any amount of dollars or pesos that this woman won't be speaking at the Mexican Consulate tonightA press release from San Francisco's Mexican Consulate plugging tonight's launch of "Women of Conscience," a book about Latina women in California, contained a lot of big names: United Stat ... More >>

Black Magic Spells

We'll bet you any amount of dollars or pesos that this woman won't be speaking at the Mexican Consulate tonightA press release from San Francisco's Mexican Consulate plugging tonight's launch of "Women of Conscience," a book about Latina women in California, contained a lot of big names: United Stat ... More >>

El Vez Is King

We'll bet you any amount of dollars or pesos that this woman won't be speaking at the Mexican Consulate tonightA press release from San Francisco's Mexican Consulate plugging tonight's launch of "Women of Conscience," a book about Latina women in California, contained a lot of big names: United Stat ... More >>

We're In a Mission From God

We'll bet you any amount of dollars or pesos that this woman won't be speaking at the Mexican Consulate tonightA press release from San Francisco's Mexican Consulate plugging tonight's launch of "Women of Conscience," a book about Latina women in California, contained a lot of big names: United Stat ... More >>

Building Racism

Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

Cinco, Not Drinko

Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

Branching Out

The Youth Speaks Living Word Festival has an unusual theme: Dystopia

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December12, 2004

Preaching to the Disconcerted

Local artist, label honcho, and festival organizer Ernesto Diaz-Infante sings the gospel of the experimental scene

Language of Love

The forgotten sounds of Ladino, a sort of Spanish equivalent of Yiddish, are showcased in a new "dance theater" production

Latin Pride

The best ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month

Revenge of the Wimp

Why Miami's Democratic mayor abandoned Al Gore and cost him all the votes he needed to be president

Mission Implacable

Peter Glikshtern used a tire iron on four interlopers in his Mission District bar. Then he beat their lawyer's attempt to make the fight a political caues.

Reel World

Stand and Deliver, Truth or Dare, On the Beat

South to the Future

Foreign Cinema in ethnic neighborhood draws community ire

Letters

Foreign Cinema in ethnic neighborhood draws community ire

You Can't Be Gay -- You're Latino

A gay Latino identity struggles to emerge, somewhere between the macho Mission and Caucasian Castro

Cothran

A gay Latino identity struggles to emerge, somewhere between the macho Mission and Caucasian Castro

Riff Raff

A gay Latino identity struggles to emerge, somewhere between the macho Mission and Caucasian Castro

Letters

A gay Latino identity struggles to emerge, somewhere between the macho Mission and Caucasian Castro

Net Loss

How LatinoNet -- the poster child for Washington's attempt to empower the poor with technology -- wasted money and networked almost no one

Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Bus to Nowhere

Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

Blindsided by Color

Mission High's prize-winning journalists tangle over ridiculous race quotas

La Nueva Fuerza

With attacks on immigration and affirmative action, the GOP has fueled a new Latino political apparatus. But can the Democrats master the machinery?

Profiles in Enfranchisement

Meet three Latinos who just cast the first U.S. votes of their lives

What's Your Preference?

S.F. voters may really get a choice

Letters

S.F. voters may really get a choice

This Is for La Raza

The brown and proud "Latinfest '96" descends on Oakland

Rock of la Raza

Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalape–o Band celebrates the history of Latin American music

Burly Cute

Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalape–o Band celebrates the history of Latin American music

Partial Settlement in Carpenters' Racial Discrimination Case

Bob the Builder never had to call Bob the Lawyer...​Eight of the 28 plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against companies at a Bayview construction site for alleged discrimination and labor law violations -- including running segregated work crews, turning away black workers in favor of Latinos, and ext ... More >>

Cuba Libre

Bob the Builder never had to call Bob the Lawyer...​Eight of the 28 plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against companies at a Bayview construction site for alleged discrimination and labor law violations -- including running segregated work crews, turning away black workers in favor of Latinos, and ext ... More >>

A Report from Juarez, the Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

Bob the Builder never had to call Bob the Lawyer...​Eight of the 28 plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against companies at a Bayview construction site for alleged discrimination and labor law violations -- including running segregated work crews, turning away black workers in favor of Latinos, and ext ... More >>

Amongst Us

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes Arizona policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

Stung

Men don’t have to agree to sex in order to get busted in a prostitution sting. They just have to seem interested.

Welcome to Mi Pueblito, Washington

The small-town, family-farm lifestyle that we love to celebrate is being preserved — thanks to Mexican immigrants.

On a Mission

The small-town, family-farm lifestyle that we love to celebrate is being preserved — thanks to Mexican immigrants.

Tom Ammiano Tells Latinos He Won't Call Meg Whitman A 'Puta'

Chris RobertsViva Ammiano!​Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish equivalent: "puta."We've written about Ammiano's humorous attempts ... More >>

Rap Against the Machine

Chris RobertsViva Ammiano!​Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish equivalent: "puta."We've written about Ammiano's humorous attempts ... More >>

Return to Sender

Chris RobertsViva Ammiano!​Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish equivalent: "puta."We've written about Ammiano's humorous attempts ... More >>

How Would Immigration Reform Look if the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?

Chris RobertsViva Ammiano!​Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish equivalent: "puta."We've written about Ammiano's humorous attempts ... More >>

Chicano Insight

Chris RobertsViva Ammiano!​Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish equivalent: "puta."We've written about Ammiano's humorous attempts ... More >>

"Chico & Chang": Exhibit Shows the Swirl of Asian and Latino Culture

Chris RobertsViva Ammiano!​Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish equivalent: "puta."We've written about Ammiano's humorous attempts ... More >>

Hate Crimes Against Latinos Rise 47 Percent in California

​The year 2010 saw a marked uptick in hate crimes against Latinos statewide, according to newly released statistics from the California Attorney General's office.Attorney General Kamala Harris' annual report on hate crimes -- incidents in which victims are targeted because of their ethnicity, sexu ... More >>

Q&A: L.A. Punk Rocker Alice Bag on Life as a Chicana Rebel and Violence Girl, Her New Book

Alice Bag.​ Punk literature is often given to tiresome romanticizing and rehashed clichés, but Alice Bag's recent autobiography, Violence Girl, offers a poignant, personal story from the unique perspective of a poor Hispanic woman raised in East LA. The book focuses on Bag grappling with her ... More >>