Latino, Black students often blocked from algebra classes linked to good jobs - The Washington Post

"Because of implicit biases, racial biases, and mindsets about who is and who isn't a math person, Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds — even when they demonstrate that they are ready and they are very clear that they are eager for those courses — are still shut out," Socol said. "Across the U.S., in every state, students of color and students from low-income backgrounds are often shut out of rigorous courses."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/11/18/algebra-racial-disparities/

US census produced huge undercount of Latino population in 2020

"These numbers are devastating. Once again, we see an overcount of white Americans and an undercount of Black and Hispanic Americans," the National Urban League CEO, Marc Morial, told reporters on a phone call. "I want to express in the strongest possible terms our outrage."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/10/us-2020-census-huge-undercount-latino-population

Prison Gerrymandering Draws Districts Around People Who Can’t Vote

Often pulled out of Black and Latino hubs, incarcerated people bolster white rural districts — but remain banned from casting ballots...

https://theintercept.com/2021/11/06/prison-gerrymandering-redistricting-census/

Opinion | Fake News Is Affecting Immigrant Communities, Too - The New York Times

Right-wing conspiracy theories are reaching Asian and Latino voters through platforms like WeChat, KakaoTalk and WhatsApp. Democrats must take notice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/opinion/fake-news-disinformation-immigrants.html

Trump Didn’t Win the Latino Vote in Texas. He Won the Tejano Vote. - POLITICO

... Sylvia Bruní, the chair of the Webb County Democrats, has a lot of ideas about what went wrong: In the face of the pandemic, Democrats stopped knocking on doors and holding in-person rallies and events. Meanwhile, with a Supreme Court seat open in September, the issue of abortion was highlighted for Catholics, and she says priests in Webb were calling for prayers for Trump at the pulpit...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/17/trump-latinos-south-texas-tejanos-437027

Latinos the targets of election disinformation – but activists are fighting back

Messages that paint Joe Biden as a socialist spreading among conservative Latinos from Cuba and Venezuela. Conspiracy theories on YouTube about Barack Obama in Spanish. Billboards and posters falsely claiming that voting by mail is illegal in Texas...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/22/latinos-targets-election-disinformation

Abrupt change to census deadline could result in an undercount of Latino and Black communities - The Washington Post

Census experts and advocates warn that the Trump administration’s decision to end the decennial count a month earlier than expected will result in a dramatic undercount of Black and Latino communities across the country, which could have grave effects on federal funding and political representation in their neighborhoods.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/abrupt-change-to-census-deadline-could-result-in-an-undercount-of-latino-and-black-communities/2020/08/09/1d074eb6-d8b7-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html

‘We’re suffering the same abuses’: Latinos hear their stories echoed in police brutality protests

On Saturday night, just before 11, California highway patrol officers opened fire on the car Erik Salgado was driving in east Oakland, killing the 23-year-old and injuring his pregnant girlfriend. It was the second time in four days that Bay Area law enforcement killed a Latino man suspected of property crimes. Sean Monterrosa, 22, was shot dead in Vallejo on 2 June by police responding to calls of looting. Monterrosa was on his knees when an officer opened fire through his car window, the city’s police chief said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/latinos-police-brutality-protests-george-floyd

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote

Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting

Mississippi deputies detained family for hours and threatened to deport them for ‘driving while Latino’ - Raw Story

A South Carolina family was detained four hours -- and threatened with deportation -- while driving to Mexico for a vacation. Marcos and Stephanie Martinez were driving in Mississippi with their three children, his mother and sister, and a family friend June 3, 2017, when a Hancock County sheriff's deputy pulled over their van, ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/mississippi-deputies-detained-family-hours-threatened-deport-driving-latino/