Last year, I wrote throughout our lives, we can identify changes in one’s own personal life by associating them to certain events that we either experienced or witnessed personally. Once again, going to Taylor, TX had an effect on me. However, it wasn’t just going there, it was an accumulation of things.
March marked my [...]
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This past weekend I attended a march and rally in Taylor, TX, home of the infamous T. Don Hutto Residential Center. Normally, I would just post the photos I took whenever I attended one these events, but this time around, I decided to be a little creative. I decided to be a little adventurous and [...]
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ABC’s The View’s co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck parrots the GOP double standard talking points when it comes to Barack Obama’s former preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright and John McCain’s “spiritual guide” Rod Parsely. While Hasselbeck acknowledges Parsely is a hate monger, is does give McCain a pass, based on the length of time each candidate has known [...]
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This is my last post on American Idol, promise. My boy David Archuleta did not win and I am sadden by it. He is not only Latino, but it is also a son of a Honduran immigrant, Lupe Marie Archuleta. His father, Jeff, is an American of Basque descent, and his mother, Lupe, is a [...]
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Most people are not very aware of the presence of African slaves in colonial Mexico. In fact, some people believe that the influence of the African to Mexican culture is negligible at best. But the African laborer actually played an important role in the economic complexities of colonial Mexico. And, in some parts of [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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