Stories by Roberto Lovato
Roberto Lovato, a frequent Nation contributor, is a New York-based writer with New America Media.
Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia strongly resembles that of African-Americans who lived under Jim Crow.
Posted on May 15, 2008
In hundreds of cities across America, May Day marches showed the powerful resistance to Bush's harsh immigration policies.
Posted on May 2, 2008
A new kind of protracted domestic war against a new kind of domestic enemy is underway -- undocumented immigrants.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008
While Obama raises the bar for racial understanding, the Democratic Leadership Council leverages white voter fear to counter America's new landscape.
Posted on Mar 22, 2008
A careful look at Super Tuesday's Latino vote shows it was not monolithic -- it was segmented across regional and other demographic lines.
Posted on Feb 9, 2008
The actions of three key Latino government officials may determine whether the torture tape investigation reaches the White House.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008
Is color blindness the model we want for diversity?
Posted on Jan 4, 2008
Anti-immigrant leader Tancredo leaves the 2008 election with more power than when he started.
Posted on Dec 21, 2007
Latino voters will go to the polls in 2008 with a hemispheric vision, a new sense of power and concern about Iraq, immigration and the environment.
Posted on Oct 15, 2007
It's not just that President Evo Morales is indigenous, but that he refuses to sell out the rights of indigenous people.
Posted on Oct 3, 2007
As they pack into theaters to watch
Resident Evil: Extinction this weekend, moviegoers may first want to play one of the many blockbuster video games on which the film is based, which display nakedly racist overtones.
Posted on Sep 22, 2007
Univision's presidential candidates debate stressed that Latino voters and their media have the power to swing things in '08.
Posted on Sep 11, 2007
Gonzales loved to tell the story of his rise out of poverty -- a Latino version of the American dream. But it is that same dream that he and his backers helped destroy for many Americans.
Posted on Sep 4, 2007
El Cantante is supposed to be about salsa legend Hector Lavoe, but the movie dotes on Jennifer Lopez, who seems totally out of touch with Latin culture, and says little about the Puerto Rican community that inspired the music.
Posted on Aug 9, 2007
During the immigrant rights marches last week, plots to attack immigrants with grenades and semi-automatic weapons were uncovered in Alabama, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Posted on May 10, 2007
Will Latinos keep turning away from the Right, furthering the momentum witnessed in last year's massive marches and during the off-year elections?
Posted on Apr 3, 2007
Alberto Gonzales, the first Latino Attorney General in U.S. history, was once endorsed by leading Latino organizations. Those same organizations now remain silent in the midst of the U.S. attorney scandal.
Posted on Mar 30, 2007
Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.
Posted on Mar 19, 2007
The war on terror is morphing into a war on immigration, with immigrants finding themselves on both sides of the conflict.
Posted on Jan 30, 2007
The new movie
Apocalypto should have left the Maya alone and instead looked for apocalyptic violence in the off-screen history of the Catholic-mestizo families of the Americas.
Posted on Dec 16, 2006
This election showed Republicans' staunch anti-immigration stance is finally coming back to haunt them.
Posted on Nov 16, 2006
A Democratic Congress offers only a thin hope of getting it right on immigration.
Posted on Nov 10, 2006
Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner's stock holdings include investments in companies that benefit from the work of undocumented immigrants, as well as firms contracted to build new border security measures.
Posted on Oct 7, 2006
Immigrant rights activists aren't just focused on legalization; they have a vision of helping create a more progressive nation.
Posted on Jun 1, 2006
The NSA's citizen-spying program -- and the release of records with friends' names on them -- made me wonder how the feds are tracking pro-immigration marchers.
Posted on May 15, 2006
Some Latino leaders feel today's immigrant rights boycott is too extreme, but they may have forgotten the extreme conditions of immigrant guest workers across the country.
Posted on May 1, 2006
Latin American leaders say thousands of immigrants will die if the U.S. Congress passes the Sensenbrenner immigration bill.
Posted on Mar 24, 2006
The great Latin jazz percussionist Ray Barretto helped push Latino music out of its silence and onto the radio waves.
Posted on Feb 24, 2006
Latinos have a growing place in the criminal justice system as both prisoners and prison guards, defendants and prosecutors.
Posted on Jan 12, 2005
Why are many progressive organizations, as well as the Republican and Democratic parties, still so blindingly white?
Posted on Sep 16, 2004
Immigration policy has been liberal on the podium and xenophobic in the hallways at the RNC.
Posted on Sep 2, 2004
Terrorists who live and work among Americans with impunity aren't the ones the GOP is warning about.
Posted on Aug 30, 2004
Their words are enough to make a hardboiled immigrant cry, but the actions (and inaction) of many a Democratic Convention speaker demonstrate neglect of immigrant issues.
Posted on Jul 29, 2004
The consensus at the Boston Social Forum is that another world really is possible.
Posted on Jul 27, 2004
Liberals and progressives don't know what they're up against with the militant evangelical movement.
Posted on Jul 19, 2004
Having prayed and proselytized for his election in 1984 as a born-again 21-year-old homeboy seeking redemption, the author ponders whether America's 40th president will be among God's Elect in 2004.
Posted on Jun 11, 2004
A new book calls Latinos 'the single most immediate and most serious challenge to America's traditional identity.'
Posted on May 18, 2004
Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ" is being used to widen the reach of evangelical media networks even as it decreases the distance between church and state.
Posted on Feb 25, 2004
Unless great care is taken to clearly define "terrorist" and "terrorist organization" in current anti-terrorism proposals before Congress, the rights of all law-abiding Americans could be in jeopardy.
Posted on Oct 22, 2001
