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Verenice Castillo accepting her Air Force Spouse of the Year Award on May 9, 2013 (Courtesy Military Spouse magazine)

U.S. Air Force spouse wins award for bringing awareness to military spouses

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Verenice Castillo got to meet First Lady Michelle Obama and Prince Harry last week as she received the 2013 Armed Forces Insurance Air Force Spouse of the Year … Read More

Collinsville Boy's Varsity Soccer Team: Jorge Segura #8, David Hernandez #14, Luis Segura #22, and Adan Morales #1 (Photo/James Williams Portraits)

All-Hispanic Alabama soccer team wins school’s first state championship in 38 years

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Collinsville, Alabama is a small town of approximately 2,000 people, but this past weekend a group of 22 Latino students put it on the national map. … Read More

The Supreme Court rejected Alabama's appeal to reinstate a law that criminalized harboring undocumented immigrants. Many latinos left after the 2011 law.

Supreme Court rejects Alabama appeal to revive immigration law

By Associated Press

(AP) -- The Supreme Court has rejected Alabama's appeal to revive portions of a state immigration law, including a section that made it a crime to harbor people … Read More

The Harding Family.

Meet the family who sent six kids to college by age 12

By Bob Dotson, NBC News

Seth Harding grabs a two-handed rubber sword, adjusts his helmet made with electrician’s tape, and starts to teach. "Try to block her sword with the base of … Read More

Voters in Nevada.

Opinion: We still need the Voting Rights Act to give equal access

By Dr. Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto

These days, voting is largely uneventful.  You show up at the polls, check in, vote, and get your sticker. Long gone are the days of having to take a … Read More

People wait in line to enter the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Scholars ask Supreme Court to preserve Voting Rights Act

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With the Supreme Court hearing on the voting rights case out of Shelby County, Alabama less than a month away, the debate  on the controversial Voting Rights … Read More

The New York Times issued a revision in their stylebook urging reporters to find alternatives to the term "illegal." (AP Photo/John Amis)

Alabama schools can no longer check for children’s immigration status

By Associated Press

(AP) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal appeals court has blocked Alabama schools from checking on the citizenship status of new students. The provision was part of … Read More

Isela Meraz and Fernando Lopez lead a group of undocumented Hispanics in protest against anti-immigration laws during a briefing on the civil rights effects of state immigration law held by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Birmingham, Ala.

Undocumented immigrants confront author of strict immigration laws

By Miranda Leitsinger, nbcnews.com

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Protesters opposed to strict state-level immigration laws confronted one of the key writers of such legislation as he testified at a U.S. … Read More

Activists, community leaders and speakers attend a rally and a news conference by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles in support of California's Trust Act on June 26, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Opinion: Republicans, not Democrats, should get the blame for anti-immigrant laws

By Stephen A. Nuňo

There is an emerging cultural divide in how we view undocumented immigrants and their role in our society that will have important consequences for the future … Read More

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), responds to President Obama’s immigration speech, Friday, June 15, 2012, at the Capitol in Phoenix.

Opinion: Is Arizona’s immigration law necessary anymore?

By Kristian Ramos

Today the Supreme Court struck down the bulk of Arizona's infamous SB-1070, however the most pernicious part of the law was upheld, the papers please section. … Read More