Yesterday's Holocaust Museum shooting by a white supremacist that killed a museum security guard wasn't just sad news -- it was scary.

Sonia Sotomayor, the product of a South Bronx public housing
project, who lost her father at the age of nine, went on to win
scholarships to Princeton University and Yale Law School.

On April 27, The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert warning against any unnecessary travel to Mexico because of the "H1N1 influenza," more commonly known as the swine flu.

By Gerald D. Jaynes

Binghamton, New York is reeling from a massacre that took place at the American Civic Association, a place that helps immigrants and refugees with counseling, resettlement, citizenship, family reunification and translators.

The U.S. Latino struggle for equality, inclusion and acceptance has always had two faces — the face of Latino citizens, which includes second, third, etc. U.S.-born generations, and the face of the undocumented Hispanic immigrants.

(Update — 2/16/09 — Michael Phelps will not face criminal charges.)

Latino and African-American families most affected 

One of the "hallmarks" of the Bush Administration was its knee-jerk responses and "half-ass" preparations to matters that impacted the country or various portions of the populace.

The election of Barack Obama forces the country to look at people of color and ethnicity in a new light and to begin a new conversation about dropping old labels and adopting new ones.