By Amanda Cohen The National Geographic show “Border Wars” depicts the daily activities of border patrol agents stationed along the U.S./Mexico border. Border Wars focuses on The Río Grande River, Tucson and Nogales, Arizona.  The realism of the show is immediately evident by the footage of searches conducted by U.S. border agents upon cars and people crossing into both the U.S. and Mexico.  Although... 

The Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, has updated its interactive maps and database on the Latino population in the nation’s more than 3,100 counties. The maps show the Latino population and share in U.S. counties for 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2009 and how its size and distribution across counties has changed since 1980. The population data are derived from the decennial... 

By Sara Clarke George Lopez is one of the most well-known Latino faces currently in the mainstream media. As both an actor and stand-up comedian, he is best known for his ability to make people laugh through jokes he tells on television. However, lately many fans are concerned with the actor’s recent animated character choices. In the upcoming 2011 animated feature, The Smurfs, Lopez is lending his...