Mexican American Progress

25/09/2021

From rancheras to norteñas, mariachi, narco corridos and corridos tumbados, here are 35 songs that tell the story of the evolution of the regional Mexican genre.

25/06/2021

@ George Lopez 🌽🥮🌮

18/06/2021

in Texas will soon get a new name and the League of United Latin American Citizens nominated two Latinos it believes are ideal candidates for the Army post's new name.

12/06/2021

From picking grapes - to visiting space - to owning a vineyard in Central California, Jose Hernandez says his life has come full circle.

04/05/2021

An overpass in Mexico City’s metro collapsed Monday night, sending a train plunging downward, trapping cars under rubble and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.

29/04/2021

Mario Gonzalez, 26, died in police custody on April 19. Body camera footage showed police pinning him to the ground for several minutes.

12/04/2021

First day working the machine

He became trapped in the cab of a manure vacuum truck that fell into the pit.

31/03/2021

Did you hear arguing?

Witness Genevieve Hansen has a tense exchange with the Derek Chauvin trial judge in which he warns her not to argue with the defense attorneys or the courts.

28/03/2021

A man known for selling ice cream to folks in Oakland was robbed, and nearly run over.

27/03/2021

Enough!! 💥

The Fresno Police Department announced that they have taken into custody an 18-year-old man as the main suspect in the murder of Lorenzo Pérez, the street vendor who was shot at point-blank earlier this week.

25/03/2021

Lorenzo Perez's 15-year-old son says his father loved his job working as a street vendor in Fresno. Perez was out working on Sunday when he was shot and killed 'execution-style' during a robbery, according to police. “The person who killed my dad took away a part of me,” his son writes. “He took away my father. He took away the opportunity of me being with him in his last moments and it’s heartbreaking.”

STORY: https://bit.ly/3fbjT5A

25/03/2021

JUST IN 🚨 The woman accused of helping dismember & hide the body of Fort Hood Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen has asked a federal judge to toss her confession, saying it was taken illegally.

25/03/2021

She will be arraigned in San Jose Wednesday afternoon.

24/03/2021

Brazil reported a terrible milestone: over 3,000 deaths in a day. The country is in crisis, with hospitals at capacity, politicians attacked for lockdowns and a controversial president.

19/03/2021

MARCH IN MAY 🚨 Find Vanessa Guillen announced they’re planning a march for Tuesday May 25th, 2021 at 1 p.m. in Washington D.C. Vanessa’s family wants to meet with President Biden & ask him to support the “I Am Vanessa Guillen Act.”

17/03/2021

15/03/2021

Her historic role is also symbolic, as the agency was long a tool of oppression against indigenous peoples. Haaland will be key to President Biden's ambitious efforts to combat climate change.

15/03/2021

VANESSA UPDATE 🚨 As promised, I wanted to keep you updated on the Vanessa Guillen case. There's a couple of things happening. The City of Killeen, Texas - Government refuses to release body camera recordings or dash camera recordings involving the pursuit of Specialist Aaron Robinson. He's the only suspect in Vanessa's brutal killing. We're told he died by su***de as law enforcement officers tried to arrest him on June 30th, 2020. Attorneys with the city of Killeen are citing what's become known as the "dead suspect loophole" of the Texas Public Information Act to prevent the release. The Office of the Attorney General will now weigh in on whether the city can prevent the release. I'm working on a story for ABC13 Houston about this issue. I'll have a full report on the news at 3PM & 4PM. Tomorrow afternoon, members of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee will testify in front of Congressional leaders about their findings & recommendations for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division. We'll be closely monitoring that as well. Next month will mark one year since the Houstonian's horrific murder on base at Fort Hood.

15/03/2021

"To be the first Mexican-American head coach, it is a blessing, a privilege, an honor, but, more importantly, it's a big-time responsibility." Kaleb Canales went from unpaid intern to head co...

03/03/2021

"When devastation hits," a farmworker advocate says, "they are the ones most vulnerable."

03/03/2021

The films were selected with feedback from Latino arts and media advocacy groups, lawmakers said.

23/02/2021

Emma Coronel Aispuro is accused of helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and planning another escape before he was extradited.

19/02/2021

"She will continue to assure the media we are only misconstruing her nativism and white supremacy for racism," state Sen. Juan Mendez said about Rep. Debbie Lesko.

07/02/2021

At least 11 migrant women were sent to Mexico after giving birth on US soil, according to an investigation by the Fuller Project and the Guardian.

22/01/2021

The Southern California city of Riverside has approved plans to remodel its main library to display Cheech Marin’s art collection and commit about $1 million of city money a year to help pay operat…

21/01/2021

The bust had been in La Paz, California, at the Cesar Chavez National Monument and was sent to Washington at the request of the White House, according to the Cesar Chavez Foundation, which said it had never before appeared in the Oval Office.

“Placing a bust of my father in the Oval Office symbolizes the hopeful new day that is dawning for our nation,” says Paul Chavez, the civil rights icon's son.

20/01/2021

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19/01/2021

The inauguration is coming up on Wednesday and a group of local musicians will perform for the Parade Across America.

14/01/2021

These include using social media and digital tools, accessing business accelerators and networking groups and looking at possible funding sources.

14/01/2021

The legislation marks a major shift in a country bedeviled for years by violence between feuding drug cartels.

14/01/2021

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler says Trump's "offenses ... were impeachable based on the indisputable evidence we already have."

12/01/2021

Today LULAC met with the Secretary of the Army at the Pentagon on exactly how are we going to lift and protect Latinos in the U.S. Army like Spc. Vanessa Guillen, remove the Confederate Names off bases, and see equity and justice in the rank and reward systems that are disproportionately discriminating against our people.

09/01/2021

This is success!

A civilian review committee formed in the wake of the murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillen found Fort Hood to have an environment “permissive” of sexual assault and harassment and lacking trust between soldiers and leaders.

01/01/2021

31/12/2020

Furthering the discourse of cultural and social struggle, Cauleen Smith: Mutualities runs concurrent with Vida Americana, from February 17 through May 17, tucked into the fifth-floor galleries.

30/12/2020

The measure would make Argentina the largest Latin American country to legalize abortion.

30/12/2020

*tasing

A park ranger stunned Darrell House, who is Oneida and Navajo, after he stepped off a trail while on a walk at Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque.

17/12/2020

A gorgeous hammock from Nicaragua, coffee from the mountains of Puerto Rico and Mexican-made embroidered face masks, we got you covered.

17/12/2020

These acclaimed titles range from searing memoirs and even a gothic novel to powerful takes on politics, race and identity.

17/12/2020

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland, a Native American congresswoman from New Mexico, to serve as interior secretary in a historic pick for a department that oversees the country's vast natural resources, including tribal lands.