Martin Luther King leads the historic Selma-Montgomery march in 1965. By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. March 2, 2012: Who would have thought it? In 2012, 47 years after the Selma to Montgomery march, Blacks and Latinos would be re-fighting the fight for civil rights in Alabama, taking...
By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Feb. 24, 2012: It’s a drama not even a Telemundo soap opera writer could have conceived. And no, it’s no “Harry Met Sally” film. This drama is action packed, rated R and comedic too. It’s all about “Stomp Out The Illegal Aliens” hardliner,...
By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Feb. 17, 2012: The term “Piranha” is defined as any of several tropical American freshwater fishes that are voraciously carnivorous and often attack and destroy living animals. The word came to mind this week as I sought for a description of...
By Felicia Persaud
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Feb. 10, 2012: Recently, my cousin Michael brought to my attention a posting on the wall of a Republican/Tea Party Facebook “friend” showing a photo of the 9/11 terror attack that purported that it was “illegal aliens” who brought terror on...
By Felicia Persaud
On the last day of January, a Republican U.S. lawmaker in Congress introduced a bill that can only be regarded as dumb.
U.S. Representative Diane Black, (R-TN), used January 31st to introduce H.R. 3842. The bill, that comes on the heels of a report that Alabama’s controversial immigration...
By Felicia Persaud
Dear President Obama,
It’s a New Year so wanted to offer you some advice going into the November general election. Take it from one immigrant to the son of another – don’t listen to the claims of the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action and take the...
By Andrea M. Ewart, Esq.
News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Thurs. Jan. 5, 2012: Trade ministers from around the world met at the World Trade Organization’s Eighth (8th) Ministerial Conference in Geneva (December 15th – 17th, 2011).
They left the meeting with no clear path toward concluding...
By Felicia Persaud
This past year, several organizations have released data to prove that immigrants are truly important in driving economic growth and innovation in America. Not only are they laborers, but as the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy research...
By Melody Wren
News Americas, TORONTO, Canada, Fri. Nov. 11, 2011: For four days in Mexico, everything stops. The eco theme park, Xcaret, an hour south of Cancun, holds its Day of the Dead or Hanál Pixán festivities to honor the souls of the departed.
From October 30 to November 2nd, the annual...
News Americas, LONDON, England, Tues. Oct. 25, 2011: Mexico international, Javier Hernandez, is staying put with Manchester United.
The striker has signed a new five-year contract which will keep him at Old Trafford until the end of the 2015/16 season.
The news comes as a welcome boost for a United side...
