In January of 2018, this assertion appeared in a story of a major newspaper in 3rd largest County in the nation, "just 28 percent of registered Latino voters cast a ballot in 2016, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.” The contention raised the following...

THE United States Census Bureau's latest population estimates show that Latinos comprise 39.3 percent of the population of Harris County. In spite of the fact that Latinos are now the county's largest population group, they only constitute 15 percent of the County’s...

THE marches that took place in the spring of 2006 across the nation and in the Houston area as a response to proposed anti-immigrant legislation reminded me of a quote that appeared in the now-defunct Houston Post's opinion section Sunday Punch in 1994. The quote...

In December of 2007, for the sixth time in the last 10 City of Houston elections, an African-American (Jolanda Jones) and a Hispanic (Joe Trevino) faced off for a citywide Houston council or mayoral position. While this event may seem unremarkable as the local...

My late mother provides an example that suggests advocates on both sides of the political spectrum debating whether voters should be required to present a Photo ID to vote in person may see minorities in the same patronizing manner. My mother met all the...