Head out on a safari adventure without leaving town. Wrap up the summer with Target Zoofari Days at the Dallas Zoo. It’s the hottest deal in town with free admission for children and half-price tickets for ages 12 and up, thanks to our friends at Target.  Attend the kick-off event on Aug. 14 with FREE Target bag giveaways to Zoo visitors! (One per family while supplies last) Chill out at m...

A new Associated Press-Univision poll shows that despite high Hispanic support for President Obama and his party, Democrats' historic grip on Latino voters is starting to slip. The poll found that three times as many Hispanics favor the Democratic Party than favor the GOP, and that Hispanic approval of Obama's job performance is 13 points higher than the rest of the nation's approval rating of hi...

Phoenix — Hundreds of demonstrators opposed to Arizona's hard-line stance on illegal immigration took to the streets, denouncing the state's controversial immigration law as racist and engaging in acts of civil disobedience. Hundreds of demonstrators opposed to Arizona's hard-line stance on illegal immigration took to the streets here on Thursday, denouncing the state's controversial immigration ...

WASHINGTON — More than 10 years have passed since she gave up her pursuit of a degree in computer science, but Yajahira Deaza still has regrets. "I feel incomplete," says the 33-year-old, a customer service representative for a major New York bank. Her experience reflects the findings of an Associated Press-Univision poll that examined the attitudes of Latino adults toward higher education. Desp...

The folks in charge of Democratic political strategies decided last year that immigration should not be a topic in this year's fall elections. The head in the sand strategy was so pervasively accepted that Democratic controlled state legislatures like Colorado dumped key immigration agenda items in an ill fated attempt to mute the debate and top Presidential advisors encouraged postponement of i...

With the 2010 National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Annual Conference under way in San Antonio, many have asked what the most important issues are for Latinos. While the economy, education, and health care all top the agenda, another critical matter has grasped the minds of the Latino community: immigration, and specifically, Arizona's controversial anti-immigrant law, SB 1070. Like no other issue, i...

For those who enjoy playing identity politics, here's a curve: There are a lot of Mexican Americans who support Arizona's SB 1070. Some are even highly vocal about their support in — get this — Spanish. Their reasons are the same as they are for many non-Latinos: Entering the country illegally is an unfair shortcut that shows a fundamental disrespect for the laws of the land they're entering. Il...

Looks like LULAC beat VOTOLATINO to the punch with the CONCERT for IMMIGRATION....... I received this press release today and was happy to see that some American Latino aritists will be peforming. Hopefully the majority of the performers will be American Latinos instead of a bunch of performers who have no ties to the US other than collecting their money from their tours that come to the US. Yea...

There's a good reason that we call baseball America's favorite pastime:  All across the country, communities gather to watch and play games and root for their favorite players and team.  It's a game that transcends all barriers and brings America together, reminding us of what makes us unique:  our diversity.  Yet, this year, Arizona's new anti-immigrant law, which essentially...

DALLAS -- Texas Republicans wrapping up their convention Saturday called on state lawmakers to crack down on illegal immigration. More than 8,000 delegates and alternates approved a party platform that supports the creation of a state militia, opposes federal bailouts, and disagrees with government restrictions on gas and oil drilling. They also approved a slate of legislative priorities that ...

"Anchor babies" isn't a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are the words being used to tag children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. While not new, the term is increasingly part of the local vernacular because the primary authors of the nation's toughest and most controversial immigration law are targeting these tots — the legal weights that anchor many undocumented aliens in the U.S...

"The King of the Desert" by Stacy Martino is described as "a Mexican American boy's journey of self-discovery through adulthood and the realization of his dreams." For some, the term "Mexican American" would set off alarm bells indicating that the play might be some kind of a "Leave it to Beaver" view of the Chicano experience. They would be wrong. Of all the works produced since the advent of th...

AUSTIN — If the American Dream is upward economic mobility and arrival in the middle class, the grim statistics show only a small percentage of Texas' Hispanics are on the road to success. As the state's Latino population continues to expand over the next two decades, if current trends stay the same, Texas is in danger of developing what one academic describes as a “permanent underclass.” Widespr...

Arizona once again delves into uncharted constitutional waters by seeking to ban courses catering to minority--again, in this case, primarily Hispanic -- students. Indeed, the Arizona State Superintendent, Tom Horne, said it was written to target Mexican or Chicano ethnic studies classes, which he claims divides students by race and promotes race resentment. The statute bans courses that "promote...

Baseball was made for nights such as this, when style and substance share the playing field to show us how far we've come and how good we can be in the effort. Baseball honored Willie Mays, Harry Belafonte and Billie Jean King at GABP Saturday night, in its annual Civil Rights Game. In so doing, it honored us all. Imagine Major League Baseball without Mays or tennis without King. Belafonte used h...

In the spirit of The Game Plan and The Pacifier comes a funny “fish out of water comedy” perfect for the entire family. Hilarious and wholesome, Tooth Fairy arrives on Blu-ray Disc/DVD Triple Play and DVD today from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Dwayne Johnson (The Game Plan) stars as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his ability to kn...

For over 20 years, a movement has evolved throughout the United States and taken the rest of the world by storm.  Today, the influence of this Urban Latino movement can be seen in the cultural and political fabric of America. American Latinos have had limited success in all of American industries including music, fashion, sports, and entertainment. LatinoBeatz.com will offer a chance for the...

As the play begins, the myth-like El Pachuco figure slices through a scrim curtain depicting sensational news headlines from 1940s Los Angeles, slowly dons the pieces of his black-and-red zoot suit and begins telling the story of the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial. This time, however, instead of coolly hissing, "Ladies and gentlemen..." directly to the audience, the Pachuco character bows and begins, ...

PHOENIX—As the academic year winds down, Creighton School Principal Rosemary Agneessens faces a wrenching decision: what to do with veteran teachers whom the state education department says don't speak English well enough. The Arizona Department of Education recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed ...

Statement by Gov. Rick Perry on Immigration and Border Security AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry has issued the following statement regarding border security, the recent debate over immigration policy in Washington and what has been implemented in Arizona: "Texas has a rich history with Mexico, our largest trading partner, and we share more than 1,200 miles of border, more than any other state. As ...

Tim Burton’s epic fantasy adventure ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Disney’s 4th biggest film of all time, takes its booming box-office success into the home with a Disney 3-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy), 1-Disc Blu-ray and 1-Disc DVD on June 1, 2010, from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.  The Blu-ray Disc versions of the film include nine bonus features that take vie...

California's oldest Latino political organization may be facing its last hurrah, having become a victim of its own success. In recent years, the Mexican American Political Association has seen the dismantling of many of its chapters, in part due to the enormous success Latinos have had over the past several decades entering political office. "MAPA was an important organization that was formed ...

McALLEN — Arizona’s proposed tough immigration law would force local police officers there to "clean up after the feds," Rio Grande Valley law enforcement experts said. Arizona’s measure — which is on the verge of approval in the Legislature — would make it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally. It would also require local police officers to question people about their immigrant ...

Tucson, AZ - “Tucson today is the moral equivalent of Birmingham, Alabama in 1961,” said Mike Wilson, border rights activist and Tohono ‘O’odham tribal member, at a rally at the Federal Building here, April 15. The rally was held in response series of raids that took place the same day in Phoenix, Tucson, Rio Rico and Nogales, and in the Mexican city of Nogales, Sonora. The raids targeted people t...

Renowned artist A.B. Quintanilla is currently putting the finishing touches on his new video "HIPNOTIKA" under the direction of the very talented Max Gutierrez. The song is from his new album titled LA VIDA DE UN GENIO (Life of a Genius), which will be released on the 18th of May, 2010 on Capitol Latin. "HIPNOTIKA" features performances by two prominent musicians, Puerto Rico's own Voltio, an...