A Chicago-based journalist

Focusing on Latino community news, immigration, demographic changes, education and Chicago stories

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Jordan's Jasper

A once highly segregated East Texas town revisits its past through photos.

Culture Class

Vietnamese-American teens talk about the difficulty of learning their parents' native tongue in Southeast Texas

CPS Expands Dual Language Programs

Using federal stimulus dollars, Chicago Public Schools reinvests in the dual language approach to bilingual education

Sandra Guzmán, La Reina of Reinvention

The author of The New Latina's Bible and former Latina magazine editor-in-chief is again at the head of a magazine for women of color.

“Social media sometimes doesn’t involve a lot of thinking. It’s so fast, the way people respond. If you talk about death and life and shootings, how are people going to say, ‘Let me think about this and be responsible’? You’re going to retweet it.”

-From interview with Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera in "Twitter Terrorists"