The 1970s: Latinos assert presence and political clout
While Latinos of Salvadoran extraction make up the largest part of Washington, D.C.’s Hispanic population today, the city already had...
Category: Activism
Landmark Latino Mural in need of repair
Adams Morgan is in danger of being “de-muralized” – again. One of D.C.’s oldest Latino street murals—perhaps the oldest surviving...
Editorial: Saving a piece of Latino History
(English version below) “Un pueblo sin murales es un pueblo desmuralizado,” no es solo el juguetón título del mual ubicado...
Lecture today on country’s ‘young + undocumented’
Today at the Woodrow Wilson Center, four undocumented undergraduates from Hoyas for Immigrant Rights, a student advocacy organization at Georgetown...
Kennedy Center Honors diversity reviewed
A panel has been convened to review the workings of the Kennedy Center Honors following the uproar last year over...