June 2011
“Being Mexican-American is tough. Anglos jump all over you if you don’t speak...”
– Edward James Olmos as Abraham Quintanilla (Selena, 1997)
Multiethnic Interracial Smith College: Loving Day... →
smithmisc:
Be sure to check out the Loving Day celebrations happening all around the United States (and even in other countries) the weekend of June 12th.
Loving Day celebrates the 44th annivesary of the Loving v. Virgina (1967), the US Supreme Court case that finally legalized interracial marriage here…
Citizens for Immigrants: Poem via... →
citizens4immigrants:
“My Grandfather Ben” by Maya Young Wong of Altadena, California, Winner of its 14th Annual “Celebrate America” Creative Writing Contest.
From China sailed my Grandfather Ben. He came to America when he was four plus ten. His Guangzhou village was small and poor And he helped his mother with…
“Here’s the link to the story of our USC alternative service border justice...”
– Rev. Jim Burklo 