Latinos

Homeland Security gets a new leader who'll face many challenges, including ongoing legislative battles over immigration agents' behavior.

Most candidates urged to stay are white and backed by big money, but those urged to bow out are leaders of color with decades of public service. It's an issue in this state of diverse voters.

Many of the women who had dedicated themselves to the farmworker movement were overlooked or driven out by César Chávez's corrosive behavior.

Latinos’ share of California’s economic productivity grew twice as fast — and the workforce grew 15 times faster — than non-Latinos’.

Faculty representation at Cal State is lagging far behind the growing number of Latino students. That burdens the small circles of Latino faculty who take on more mentorship tasks, many times in non-tenure positions and for lower pay.

First-generation students lack the extra help with exams and college applications that rich kids' families can buy. A new program and tax could change that.

Like today, Americans in the 1930s were reeling from economic hard times. Leaders made Latinos scapegoats and deported immigrants and some US citizens.

If Border Patrol leaders take over ICE, it's likely both agencies will continue avoiding repercussions for violence and deaths in custody.

The loss of KMUV 23, a Telemundo affiliate in Salinas, adds to the atrophy of local journalism. It also harms civic engagement and public advocacy.

A protest by a Salvadoran immigrant incarcerated in California's Imperial Valley in the 1980s resonates decades later as detained migrants again participate in hunger strikes to bring awareness to the inhumane conditions they face.