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Sotomayor introduces “undocumented immigrant” term
Image via Wikipedia Although the term “illegal immigrant” has appeared in a dozen Supreme Court decisions, Justice Sotomayor has chosen to introduce “undocumented immigrant” to Supreme Court lexicon. Read more at: htt...
2009: A year of ‘bests’ for Latinos
The New York Daily News publishes its fourth annual list of events and people (including some of VLs celebrity A-listers) that made 2009 the year in which all wised up to the fact that being Latino means what you make of it. For the rest of the lis...
Increasing Latino representation in basketball
Nearly nearly two decades since Michael Jordan led the Americans to gold on the 1992 U.S. Dream Team, many of the Latino kids that watched from their TV sets have grown up, honed their skills and headed to America to play college basketball. Read m...
Rosario Dawson part of essay series empowering women
Lifetime Networks, the most powerful media brand targeted to women, and VOICE, an imprint of Hyperion dedicated to publishing books by and about women, have partnered to publish Secrets of Powerful Women: Leading Change for a New Generation, the only...
Secretary Napolitano presides over citizenship ceremony
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano presided over a ceremony granting citizenship to 110 people from 48 countries at Ellis Island. The ceremony took place in the Great Room, also known as the Registry Hall, where many of the 12 million immigrants who pass...
Imperative for Latinos to take the Census

