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Sen. Marco Rubio really knows his hip hop: Politically-minded fans of hip hop have known for a while that Rubio is a fan of Tupac and West Coast gangsta rap. I thought he was saying that only to seem accessible to younger voters (well, voters of his generation and younger). Rubio, apple of the Read More
First, on the GOP side: “House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said on Tuesday that he believes undocumented young people who entered the United States as children should be given legal residence and, eventually, citizenship, in what marks a reversal for the congressman who voted against the Dream Act less than three years ago. ‘A Read More
President Obama has won the endorsement of La Opinión, the country’s largest Spanish-language newspaper. What choice did the paper have, though, when less than one in four Latinos support the Republican challenger? Yet, what’s surprising about the endorsement, and the reason I mention it at all, is the way in which the editors chose to Read More
Latinos are getting their learn on. From the Pew Hispanic Center: “For the first time, the number of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics enrolled in college exceeded 2 million and reached a record 16.5% share of all college enrollments. Hispanics are the largest minority group on the nation’s college campuses, a milestone first achieved last year Read More