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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the Hispanic-American community.
March 2008 - Posts
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This weekend Anchorage School Superintendent Carol Comeau met with a local Hispanic council to discuss improving overall Latino student performance in district schools. Len Anderson, KSKA - Anchorage ShareThis Read More...
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On March 28, 2008, The Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals invites you to join them at the J.W. Marriott, Grand Ballroom, 5150 Westheimer, Houston, for the 22nd Annual Sylvan Rodriquez Scholarship Banquet as they award $30,000 in scholarship Read More...
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Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region is proud to announce that 20 local Latino high school seniors will each receive a 2008 RMHC/Hispanic American Commitment to Educational Resources (HACER) $1,000 college scholarship. Read More...
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Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region is proud to announce the 20 local Latino high school seniors who will each receive a 2008 RMHC/Hispanic American Commitment to Educational Resources $1,000 college scholarship. Read More...
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One night each month, Henry Mora and Norma Pereira-Mora head to Carmel High School for a Latino parents meeting that gives them the opportunity to talk about their children's education in their native Spanish. Read More...
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Before Continental Savings Bank elbowed its way into an already competitive Lincoln Avenue market its leaders talked to the Latino residents in the Milwaukee neighborhood about banking. Read More...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - When David Lopez, the president of National Hispanic University, was searching for an academic co-pilot last summer, he didn't know he'd get the real thing. Lopez drove over to nearby Reid-Hillview airport in East San Jose to pick up Read More...
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Student senate president Nathasha Cole, 2008 homecoming director Jessica Redling and Hispanic Latino Student Union treasurer Jolie Abreu represent the women of Florida State University each in their own unique ways, but they all have at least one thing Read More...
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The Santa Catalina Island town is about 70% Latino, but its civic life is a mostly white domain. From a breezy country club veranda overlooking the rooftops in the seaside resort village of Avalon, Robert Gonzalez waited anxiously Saturday for his name Read More...
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Jose Espinosa worked his way out of the strawberry fields of Central California in the early 1990s, determined to learn a profitable trade. Read More...
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Latino families, service agencies gather to promote youth activities. Read More...
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Republican candidate Sen. John McCain will launch his effort to win the crucial Hispanic vote with his first Spanish-language ads this week. But given his party's rabid anti-immigration stand, it will be an uphill battle. Read More...
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Local business leader Silvia Thomas has been appointed as director of Hispanic/Latino Affairs. Read More...
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Music, food and information awaited those who braved Saturday's cold and rainy weather and attended the second annual Spring Festival celebrating Latino culture at the Greenville Town Common. Read More...
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A celebration of Hispanic culture was held Saturday afternoon in Greenville, as a way to bring the community together. Read More...
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The Hispanic and Latino Alliance presents the Rev. Emmanuel Ziga from Grace For All Nations International Ministry as guest speaker for a "Divine Encounter" 6:15 tonight at Northshore Baptist Church, 10301 NE 145th St., Bothell. Read More...
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Greeted by a mariachi band from Ogden High School, hundreds of students from Utah County and around the state gathered at Mountain View High School Friday for the fourth annual Latino Convention. Read More...
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Posted: 6:42 PM- Silvia Thomas has been appointed as the new director of the Utah office of Hispanic/Latino Affairs, designed to oversee the delivery of state services to the state's Hispanic and Latino communities. Read More...
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A Bay Area school finds a way to keep some minorities from getting left behind. Read More...
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Eighth-graders at Rhodes Middle School are taking part in Young Achievers project Read More...
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The surprise success of Under the Same Moon shows that Latino audiences will respond to films that tell their own stories Read More...
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NEW YORK MTV Tr3s' popular programming aimed at Latino youth goes live today via Verizon Wireless' V Cast Mobile TV, providing broadcasts of the Hispanic network's TV shows via mobile phones and devices. Read More...
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Henrico Police need your help. On March 16, 2008 at 5:50 PM, two Hispanic males entered the El Rincon Latino Convenience Store at 5158 Nine Mile Road. Once inside, the two suspects displayed a gun and forced the clerk to give them money from the registers Read More...
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WASHINGTON -- During his well-publicized endorsement of Barack Obama, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson praised the presidential candidate for his candor about race. "As a Hispanic, I was particularly touched by his words," Richardson said, "Senator Obama Read More...
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A Pennsylvania judge ordered three convicted Hispanic defendants, who needed translators in court, to learn English or serve their time in prison.The order brought criticism from community Latino advocates.Luis Reyes, Ricardo Dominguez, Kelvin Reyes-Rosario Read More...
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A Pennsylvania judge ordered three convicted Hispanic defendants, who needed translators in court, to learn English or serve their time in prison. Read More...
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HOUSTON----On March 28, 2008, The Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals invites you to join them at the J.W. Marriott, Grand Ballroom, 5150 Westheimer, Houston, for the 22nd Annual Sylvan Rodriquez Scholarship Banquet as they award $30,000 Read More...
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Former Tampa mayoral candidate and steel manufacturing executive Frank Sanchez has found himself in an expanded role with the Barack Obama presidential campaign, being named national chair of Latino and Hispanic fundraising. Read More...
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Sometimes it can be hard to locate the resources needed to address a problem. Luckily, there are organizations like the Oakland County chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA). Read More...
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Welcome to La Vida Oakland, a publication of The Oakland Press. This monthly section is designed to help our Latino readers navigate the county's social services, business, government and educational institutions. Read More...
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An increasing number of colleges and universities are reaching out to successful Latino entrepreneurs and keynote speakers as the choice for their commencement speeches in 2008. (PRWeb Mar 27, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb797614.ht Read More...
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An increasing number of colleges and universities are reaching out to successful Latino entrepreneurs and keynote speakers as the choice for their commencement speeches in 2008. Read More...
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Encouragement. It’s such a simple word, but it can open a new whole world to a Latino teen struggling with the decision to stay in high school. Read More...
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Recently, racial tension and violence between African-American and Latino gangs has escalated in Los Angeles. A possible factor may be that the Latino population is increasing exponentially while the African-American numbers are not resulting in heightened Read More...
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"Nearly one-third of the residents within our service area in New York are of Hispanic descent and speak Spanish, in many cases as the native language. Read More...
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According to a special report released this week by Hispanic Market Weekly, the leading authority on U.S. Hispanic marketing and media, Spanish-language titles in large Latino centers across the nation continue to see revenue gains and circulation jumps, Read More...
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HOUSTON----Staples, Inc., the world's largest office products company, today announced it will celebrate the opening of its first Houston store with a $25,000 donation to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund . Read More...
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Officials pick Tenaglia as director over Torres-Cordero. Collective groans of ''unbelievable'' shot up Tuesday from residents after the Bethlehem Area School Board again bypassed a Hispanic candidate in favor of a white man to fill a board vacancy. Read More...
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A cheap but highly addictive form of heroin known as "cheese" has swept through Dallas in recent years, and local health officials are seeing Hispanic children as young as 9 suffering from the crushing effects of drug withdrawal. Read More...
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Amid a crackdown on illegal immigration, two Dallas lawyers are urging illegal and legal immigrants and U.S. citizens of Hispanic ancestry to know their rights if stopped by traffic police in cities around Dallas. Read More...
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When the victim of domestic violence is Hispanic, the abuser has additional ways to isolate her. Rosa Wiszo-Waty, who is bicultural-bilingual, is a facilitator for a survivors' support group at Safe Passage shelter for victims of domestic abuse and sexual Read More...
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BETHLEHEM | An outpouring of public support, particularly from the Hispanic community, wasn't enough to get Sis-Obed Torres Cordero a seat on the Bethlehem Area School Board. Read More...
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NEW YORK PR Newswire has launched MultiVu Latino, a new division headed by Hispanic PR Wire cofounder Manny Ruiz that will offer broadcast public relations and multimedia services to the U.S. Hispanic market, the news wire service announced Monday. Read More...
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Sen. John McCain, the GOP presidential candidate, addresses a group of Latino small-business owners in Santa Ana Tuesday. Read More...
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The federal government should not bail out lenders or home buyers who entered into irresponsible mortgage agreements, Arizona Sen. John McCain told a group of Latino small-business owners in Santa Ana today, adding that government assistance must be accompanied Read More...
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GOP presidential candidate reaches out to Latino community and entrepreneurs but visit will be protested by anti-illegal immigration group. Read More...
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More than 40 leaders from the Latino community were at WSU Tri-Cities on Monday night, to brainstorm on how to make college education more available to Hispanic students. Read More...
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The Lambda Theta Phi fraternity is looking to clean up stereotypes of Hispanic males. "As Latino males, we already have a stereotype," said Ruben Salazar, vice president of the fraternity's UNM chapter. "Usually, people only see the negative aspects of Read More...
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I come to you today as the son of a mixed race couple, of a white father and a Hispanic mother. And yet, I feel allegiance to neither. I look at my father and say, yes, he is white. And I look upon my mother and say, yes, she is Hispanic. Read More...
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March 25, 2008 (SmartPros) Microsoft Corp. has launched a bilingual Spanish-English version of Office Accounting Express 2008 and Office Accounting Professional 2008 in the United States, providing bilingual functionality for the growing Hispanic small-business Read More...
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SUBWAY® Restaurants today announced that it has teamed up with Hispanic soccer legend Tab Ramos in a national effort to combat juvenile obesity among Latinos. The joint initiative called, "Scoring a Goal for our Youth," will take Ramos, a national soccer Read More...
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Staff photo/Josh White - From left, Alejandra Knight Ayala, president of Centro Latino’s board of directors, assists employees Maria Rodriguez and Gina Rosales as they plan an event for International Women’s Month. Read More...
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NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- MultiVu(TM), PR Newswire's multimedia and broadcast PR company, today announced the launch of MultiVu Latino, a new division dedicated to providing broadcast public relations and multimedia services to the U.S. Hispanic Read More...
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Staff photo/Josh White - From left, Alejandra Knight Ayala, president of Centro Latino’s board of directors, assists employees Maria Rodriguez and Gina Rosales as they plan an event for International Women’s Month. Read More...
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A new community program hopes to assist Latino families with language barriers at home. Read More...
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Presumptive GOP presidential nominee - wildly popular in his home state of Arizona, on the Mexican border - has vowed to win a sizable chunk of the crucial Latino vote this fall. But history is against him. Typically, about two-thirds of Latinos... Read More...
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The North County Times invites members of the community to two Latino round-table discussions this week. Read More...
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NEW YORK Azteca América has entered a distribution agreement with Direct TV Más to broadcast the Hispanic network's programming nationally via the satellite provider's Latino-themed service package. Read More...
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Maria Chavez and two of her Patterson High School classmates went to the Hispanic Education Conference on Saturday in Modesto to learn that the path to college and the career opportunities that follow are accessible. Read More...
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When David Lopez, the president of National Hispanic University, was searching for an academic co-pilot last summer, he didn't know he'd get the real thing. Read More...
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