One of my friend shared this with me this morning and it seriously made my day. This video is of a Mexican-American Mariachi band singing our National Anthem. My friend's comment was the best:
"One of...
If there's one thing you can count on in this world--such as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West--it's that those who support Donald Trump are even more racist and xenophobic...
Soon to retire, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois could handle no more of Pres. Donald Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday before standing up and leaving. Quickly. I'd say "stormed out" but...
“Blood and soil!”
“Jews will not replace us!”
You know where people chanted these slogans, don't you?
Berlin, circa 1938, right?
Technically, yes.
But we don't need to take a trip in the way-back machine to hear this chilling rhetoric....
At Sunday's Super Bowl, Latina singers and entertainers Shakira and Jennifer Lopez wowed the world with a stunning and age-defying performance. J-Lo is 50 and Shakira is 43 and the ladies brought it home exactly...
Milton Mayer (1928–29) was a journalist, reporter for the Associated Press, the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago American, and The Progressive.
In 1955, he published a seminal work titled They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 in which he analyzes how Hitler came...
A series of deportation raids targeting Central American asylum-seekers led immigrant rights activists and even fellow Democrats to harshly criticize the Obama administration. The Washington Post had already revealed plans by the Department of Homeland Security to...
By now, we are well aware of 32-year-old Heather Heyer's death at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12.
But there were other violent skirmishes that day that have received far less media...
In the Era of Trump, bigotry, discrimination, and outright hatred have become acceptable to some on the right. It's as if Trump has managed to partially normalize such vile behavior among the lugnuts who constitute...
I think people are always surprised that Mexico does indeed have an Olympic ski team. What's not surprising is that they always seem to have the BEST uniforms. This year? They're Day of the Dead—Dia...
The man you see in the photo above this story is Ricardo Aca. Ricardo is from Pueblo, Mexico, and it just so happens that he is an undocumented immigrant who works for Donald Trump.
Yes, that Donald Trump....
Richland High School in North Richland Hills, Texas has been on the hot seat as of late. The train of headlines makes sense, considering their mascot is a Confederate caricature named Johnny Rebel and things...
Not long before the Trump administration announced their decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program instituted by President Obama which protects some 800,000 undocumented young people who were brought to the United...
According to Mike Pence, millions of Hispanics are going to the polls to vote for Donald Trump even though he began his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants "rapists."
Yeah, and Pope Francis is a Presbyterian.
During an...
There have been some pretty shameful and disturbing displays of out-and-out racism since Donald Trump's upset victory. But one of the worst to date may have taken place on Thursday at the Arizona State Capitol....
Eventually Donald Trump will go.
Even though he is refusing to concede, he has no standing come January 20.
The people have spoken whether he likes it or not.
Should he refuse to leave the White House, he...
Seems there's been endless commentary today about Donald Trump's hastily arranged trip to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto. For the past year, all Trump has said about Mexico is how it's filled...
Record turnout in this year's election is throwing Republicans into a tailspin.
They do not want democracy.
They want oligarchy.
But they know Americans outside the extremely wealthy do not.
So to maintain their wealthy donors' hegemony, they work...
Tuscon, Arizona immigration protesters got owned by a Native American man today -- no immigration lawyers needed. The rally against illegal immigration from Central and South America is one of many being held across the country as Republican...
This week, the Trump administration tested the limits of its anti-immigrant stance by admitting (after denying) and reaffirming its practice of divorcing refugee children from their parents crossing into the United States from the southern border.
Public...
