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A Toast To Chicano/Latino Graduates
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Many programs have been started to make second generation Latino students succeed. Sadly, it's often people like me who end up benefiting from them, and on top of that, we end up serving as a measuring stick for what a Latino, an immigrant, even a second generation should look like. It's not fair.Read more...
PODCAST: Senator Swaps Teams, Joins Dems
LISTEN Beltway Mashup talks with Republican campaign strategist and blogger Joshua Sharp about what longtime Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's secession from the Grand 'Ole Party means for the right. Read more...
An American Family At A Theater Near You
The Flores family in Lydia, a new play by Octavio Solis, is an American family that happens to speak Spanglish, listen to Pedro Infante, and celebrate quinceañeras as a right of passage.Read more...
Justice? Or "Just Us?" Racism and Profit In The Prison System
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In a classic joke about black men in prison, the late, great, always controversial Richard Pryor said: "You go down there looking for justice; that's what you find: just us." The newly-relased movie "American Violet" suggests that Pryor was right.
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Of Tancredo, Immigrants, And Freedom Of Speech
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I'm not sure those students in North Carolina were the first ones to disrupt Tancredo's speech.
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V-BLOG: A Presidential Pup
Portuguese Water Dog vs. Labradoodle? Breeder vs. Shelter? Change vs. Experience? Torey Van Oot and guests sound off on the Obamas' new dog in Beltway Mashup's first Webisode. Read more...
Dating Older: Double The Age, Double The Standards
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From "Cougars" and "MILF's" to "Cradle Robbers" and "Dirty Old Men", some age-disparate relationships get kudos while others get criticism.
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The Myth Of Black Versus Brown
Latinos and blacks suffer under the same economic system established by "the man." That's reason to unite, not fight.Read more...
Chuck Norris: Change We Can Believe In
There's just one guy capable of saving the economy, fixing the failing education and health care systems, winning two wars and restoring America's image abroad. And it's not Obama.Read more...
The Return Of The Dream Act
We educate them, feed them, teach them about America, and then we shut the door on them. All that money and energy invested for naught. How's that for irony? Read more...
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