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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the Hispanic-American community.
January 2010 - Posts
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Bad news for all of the Betty Suarez fans out there. ABC announced Wednesday that it’s pulling the plug on Ugly Betty , People reports. “We’ve mutually come to the difficult decision to make this Ugly Betty ’s final season, and are announcing now as we Read More...
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Like many high school wrestling coaches, Melrose's Vaughn Glasener is struggling to keep his numbers up. Apparently grueling practices and restricted diets aren't all that appealing to the children of the most obese, television-loving nation on Earth. Read More...
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As I wrote in a recent post , my wife and I moved to California not long ago. The movers who transported our stuff were Latino, like me. I wrote about how they arrived late at every stage of the process, but I didn't say why. Well, the reason is simple: Read More...
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Jessica Alba graces the cover of Siempre Mujer's February/March issue, on newsstands next week. She opens up to the magazine about how she's reconnecting with her Mexican heritage, how she'd like to star in Spanish-language films and the values she'd Read More...
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In the diverse group of designers competing on Project Runway this season are three Latino contestants with very different backgrounds, styles and levels of experience, vying to make their mark on the fashion world. The elder statesman of the bunch at Read More...
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FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The largest study of its kind finds that Parkinson's disease in the United States is more common in the Midwest and Northeast, and that whites and Hispanics are twice as likely to develop the disease as blacks and Asians. Read More...
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In the US, Ipsos and Spanish language media firm Telemundo have launched a poll to find out more about the attitudes and opinions of Hispanic citizens. For the first wave of the new Ipsos-Telemundo Poll, more than 500 Hispanics living in the US were interviewed Read More...
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Arian Campo-Flores As I noted yesterday , the chances of getting an immigration-reform bill passed this year dimmed dramatically in the wake of Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts special election. Last night President Obama's SOTU speech pretty Read More...
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In my columns, I pride myself on being “the political mythbuster.” Though I don’t strap a jet engine to a car or toss a grenade in a refrigerator to see if it will absorb the shock of the explosion as the guys on the Discovery Channel do, I’m about to Read More...
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The U.S. is subject to powerful cultural forces rooted in demographics and ethnicity. Nowhere is the influence of these cultural crosswinds more evident today than in our growing Hispanic population and its increasing claim on a share of the American Read More...
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Who, exactly, is Ricardo Melendez? He was once a famous and tragic Russian ballet dancer. He has been Shakespeare's infamous sprite. He is dancer and actor, teacher and student, world traveler and the boy next door with an office on Granby Street, where Read More...
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Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly promoted a Hispanic and an Asian to the highest rankings in NYPD history Tuesday. Chief of Personnel Rafael Pineiro was named first deputy commissioner, replacing George Grasso , who left the department last week to become Read More...
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Often, the big companies score well with the customers by catering to small but influential sections of the customers. AT&T provided an example for the same when the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility ( HACR ), one of the most influential Read More...
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#printDesc{display:none;} The Cliffside Park-based estate of the late Salsa star Celia Cruz has accused Telemundo, the giant Hispanic television network, of failing to pass on profits from a DVD honoring the singer. A suit filed by the estate, Knight Read More...
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Once hailed for our superiority in education, the United States is losing ground internationally when it comes to providing our students with quality schooling. The College Board's launch this week of its report on "The Educational Crisis Facing Young Read More...
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International soccer star Salvador Cabañas is in critical condition after being shot in the head following an attack inside the bathroom of a bar in Mexico City, BBC News reports. The athlete, who plays for the Mexican Club America, was expected to play Read More...
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Convicted girlfriend beater Hiram Monserrate on Sunday compared himself to murdered civil rights workers as he stepped up the fight to keep his state Senate seat. Claiming he was targeted because he is Latino, Monserrate announced that civil rights lawyers Read More...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in more than a decade, reversing a long slide, a U.S. think tank reported on Tuesday. The overall teen pregnancy rate was up 3 percent in 2006, with a 4 percent rise in Read More...
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EL PASO -- Ceci Miles Mulvihill failed the first time she opened a business. Her second attempt, though, resulted in one of the fastest growing Hispanic-owned companies in the country, according to Hispanic Business magazine. Mulvihill started her career Read More...
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In recent weeks, Latinos in South Carolina have gathered for food and conversation to discuss a strategy for immigration reform. Energized by the election of President Barack Obama, they are trying to push the explosive issue back into the national conversation. Read More...
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On July 12, 2008, six white teenagers confronted Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala, a 25-year-old father of three and an illegal immigrant from Mexico, in an alley in Shenandoah, Pa. Screaming racial slurs at him, the teens viciously kicked and beat him. He Read More...
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WASHINGTON - The Maryland Hispanic population has increased by at least 65 percent since the 2000 Census, contributing to increasing ethnic diversity nationally, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report. There are 375,830 Hispanics living in Maryland Read More...
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A prison in the northern Mexican state of Durango housing 2,025 inmates exploded in a wave of violence Wednesday morning, leaving at least 23 prisoners dead. Officials aren’t sure what sparked the deadly riot between rival drug gangs, CNN reports, but Read More...
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The new Power Woman Business Center, created by Hispanic advertising agency Power Media Group, celebrated its Grand Opening with dozens of local community members including business owners, government representatives, elected officials and civic leaders Read More...
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Ricky Martin landed in Haiti yesterday to do some hands-on volunteering in the shaken country. Martin traveled with Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford to the capital city of Port-Au-Prince and was deeply effected by all that he saw. "The only Read More...
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Las Vegas, NV-With over 300 billion dollars in federal funding up for grabs, the U.S. Census bureau is spreading the word about just how important it is for every person to be counted. But one of their biggest tasks is motivating minority communities Read More...
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In the early 1980s, Hispanic business leaders in metro Atlanta saw the need for an organization that would help their companies grow. More than 25 years later, the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is going strong, with more than 1,200 members. It Read More...
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Over 1400 employees will be out of work, come April now that John Morrell is closing its doors. Since many of those employees are hispanic, some Mexican businesses like Plaza Latina could be left high and dry. Worker Luis Antonio Ramirez says he's preparing Read More...
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Not content with its place as the biggest U.S. sporting event of the year, the National Football League wants to make the Super Bowl the most-watched sports event among Hispanics. The NFL is gearing up to launch a series of Latino-targeted marketing efforts Read More...
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A U.S. district federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Irving school district's at-large trustee elections system does not violate the Voting Rights Act. Plaintiff Manuel Benavidez , who twice ran unsuccessfully for the board, had argued that the voting Read More...
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Over the last half-century, Latin Americans have gone from representing under a tenth of the foreign-born population living in the United States to more than half of it. Here is a chart, taken from a Census Bureau report released today, showing the trends: Read More...
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MIT must do a better job recruiting and retaining black and Hispanic faculty, who have a significantly more difficult time getting promoted than white and Asian colleagues, according to a frank internal study released today by the university. In some Read More...
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On Martin Luther King Jr. day, about 10,000 people took a silent march down the streets of Houston. They wore red tape printed with the word “LIFE” over their mouths and later broke into the civil rights standard, “We Shall Overcome.” They were fighting Read More...
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Doctors are diagnosing more white people with the deadly skin cancer known as melanoma, and while Hispanics and blacks are much less likely to be diagnosed with the malignancy, they often have advanced forms of the cancer when it is found, new research Read More...
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A coalition of Hispanic businesses in Nashville has started a Haitian relief effort aimed at letting its community lend a helping hand. "I know they have big hearts and they really want to collaborate and help and this way they can," said organizer Brad Read More...
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Hispanic plaintiffs plan to appeal a federal judge's decision to end court oversight of the Tucson Unified School District's long-standing desegregation order. U.S. District Judge David Bury last month effectively terminated a 1978 settlement agreement Read More...
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SAN ANTONIO — Tens of thousands of San Antonio residents, some holding portraits of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and banners proclaiming "We believe," marched in honor of the slain civil rights leader Monday. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and Democratic Read More...
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One way to fight crime is by keeping kids off the streets and involved in positive activities. The Latin American Cultural Center of Queens (LACCQ) has been doing just that and for their efforts Congressmember Joseph Crowley presented the organization Read More...
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With the departures of the Franciscan Friars from St. Anthony parish on Milwaukee's south side and Father Eleazar Perez from St. Adalbert, the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee is searching for ways to meet the pastoral needs of the largest Latino parishes Read More...
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New York, NY, United States (AHN) - When it comes to heart disease, doctors should take into account differences among Hispanic populations living in the United States, researchers at Columbia University say. Hispanics make up 16 percent of the nation's Read More...
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Two Los Angeles-area banks are coming to Orange County by buying a pair of small-business lenders, one in Irvine and the other in Santa Ana. “We’ve found good talent along with an enormous need for small-business investment in Orange County,” said Don Read More...
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TALLAHASSEE -- The search will soon be under way in Florida for every Hispanic, farmworker, college student and members of other historically hard-to-count groups in a marketing blitz aimed at improving the 2010 Census count. Billions of federal dollars Read More...
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PHOENIX, AZ -- A peaceful march for immigrant rights turned violent Saturday after a small number protesters allegedly threw water bottles and rocks. The march was organized by a coalition of immigrant rights groups and drew several thousand to protest Read More...
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Given the minuscule number of Hispanic players in the NFL, Sunday's lineup of playoff games appears to have already made history. Mark Sanchez and Tony Romo , the starting quarterbacks of two of the eight remaining teams -- the New York Jets and the Dallas Read More...
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Black and Hispanic Californians are more likely to be hospitalized or die as a result of H1N1 influenza compared with the state's white population, according to new data from the California Department of Public Health, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Read More...
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While President Obama's popularity has slipped in general, the trend has been more pronounced among Hispanics, a demographic group that helped him defeat John McCain in '08. Two surveys this week, in particular--with very low Hispanic sample sizes, it Read More...
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WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates in the United States are expected to remain high in 2010, but a new study says black and Hispanic workers will suffer significantly more than their white counterparts. "The gap between white and minority unemployment rates Read More...
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(Media-Newswire.com) - COLLEGE STATION -- Dr. Manuel Pina Jr., with the Texas A&M University department of agricultural leadership, education and communication, received a 2009 Vice Chancellor’s Award of Excellence in the area of system academic partnership. Read More...
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Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) has been recognized nationally as one of 25 universities in the country with effective practices for increasing the number of Hispanic students earnings degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics Read More...
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(CN) - A former Texas state trooper was convicted Wednesday of stealing money from drivers he stopped on the highway. Michael Anthony Higgins targeted Latinos and generally bagged hundreds of dollars, according to federal prosecutors in Corpus Christi. Read More...
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U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis today announced a $150 million "Pathways out of Poverty" grant dedicated to providing green jobs and training to the disaffected and unemployed, such as the poor, high school dropouts and ex-criminal offenders. The grants Read More...
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JOHN RUIZ has signed with Golden Boy ahead of his shot at WBA champ David Haye. Ruiz is the mandatory challenger to the title Haye won from Nikolai Valuev in November. And the American jumped at the chance to sign for Oscar De La Hoya's group after his Read More...
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Pat Kemp and Gil Sanchez , two Democrats vying to replace Michael Scionti as the state House representative for District 58, were guest speakers at the Hillsborough County Young Democrats club last night. Sanchez talked about his "Triangle of Prosperity" Read More...
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South Florida's large Hispanic population makes the area one of the better international soccer markets in the country. HECTOR GABINO / EL NUEVO HERALD This time, Miami was deemed a world-class soccer city. Fifteen years after being passed over as a World Read More...
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The U.S. Small Business Administration ’s North and South Florida divisions are launching a partnership with the Hispanic Business Initiative Fund of Florida Inc. aimed at bolstering small business development in Florida, Under the agreement, to be unveiled Read More...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the election of President Barack Obama, black optimism about America has surged, while Hispanics have become more skeptical about race relations, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday. Thirty-nine percent Read More...
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They met 30 years ago, when he was a junior lawyer in the US Justice Department in Washington and she was a George Washington University Law School student with a summer internship in his unit. Yesterday, Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation’s first black attorney Read More...
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BB&T Corp . has agreed to fund a multiyear program to provide scholarships to Hispanic and African-American college students. The Hispanic Scholarship Fund/BB&T Scholarship program will provide 10 scholarships worth $5,000 each to five Hispanic Read More...
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Singer-songwriter Draco Rosa sees the world through the eyes of a poet. A lover of all things surreal, he finds beauty in almost anything. That’s why his video for the love song “Esto Es Vida” from his eponymous new album is anything but conventional. Read More...
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The National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) announced that honorary New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson will co-chair the 25th Annual Convention and Business Expo in Albuquerque from March 10-13. Along with the governor, Former Ambassador Read More...
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2010) — Hispanic senior citizens are living in nursing homes in ever-increasing numbers, but they face a gap in their quality of care compared to white residents, according to new research from Brown University. A team led by Mary Read More...
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U.S. Americans of Hispanic origin in the United sent fewer amount of dollars to their original countries last year. U.S. immigration from Salvador is the second largest after Mexico. According to Bank of Mexico, last year the remittances (the money people Read More...
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Washington (CNN) -- Legalization of the more than 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States would raise wages, increase consumption, create jobs and generate more tax revenue, two policy institutes say in a joint report Thursday. The report Read More...
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Latino-friendly senator, Chris Dodd of Connecticut , announced his plans to forgo a re-election bid come November. Facing slumping poll numbers, Dodd joins North Dakota's Byron Dorgan in stepping out of the race. Their departures emphasize the delicate Read More...
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What would happen if there was a debate in your state where the school board told you they were removing Abraham Lincoln from their textbooks? No excuse would even come close to advocating for such a thing, after all Lincoln was a key figure in American Read More...
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Census 2010 forms don’t get mailed until March, but the U.S. Census Bureau kicked off a national campaign this week in hopes of ensuring participation in the count. The million campaign includes cross-country road tours to raise awareness about the decennial Read More...
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photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba A Hispanic rights group wants more Hispanic history taught in Texas schools. The Victoria council of the League of United Latin American Citizens announced the movement on Thursday. For years, the State Board of Education has Read More...
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The back wall of the sanctuary of the Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostal Church of Orlando is lined with the flags of the Hispanic congregation: Puerto Rico, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti Read More...
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While law schools added about 3,000 seats for first-year students from 1993 to 2008, both the percentage and the number of black and Mexican-American law students declined in that period, according to a study by a Columbia Law School professor. What makes Read More...
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Gety Images THE choice of John Pérez to take over as the new speaker of California’s state assembly later this month has been hailed as something of a breakthrough—but only because Mr Pérez is openly gay. That he is also Latino is not considered newsworthy. Read More...
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