Our New Anahuac

Background of Incident This weekend, I was invited by some friends of mine to visit Cleveland, Texas.  The trip was not a leisurely one.  We were invited to meet with a community which had been affected by a horrific incident-the gang rape of an 11-year old by a group of men.   This young girl was [...]

The media does not seem to shy away from reminding us that our young Latina girls have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the county. About one million teenage girls in the United States, or one in three, gets pregnant before they turn 20. More than 80 percent of those pregnancies are unintended and unintentional, [...]

                              I took a photo of this in a local restaurant in Houston. Unfortunately, it is not the only advertisement that I have seen that equates Mexican women with beer. Other ads in Spanish talk about prefering “blondes” (beer/women), and they [...]