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For all the latinas who dreamed of starring in a telenovela, Suave Professionals® set out to make one lucky winner's wishes come true! Creating a "first-ever" landmark in TV sponsorship Unilever and Univision Network have taken their creative partnership to the next level. Suave Professionals®, as the official hair care sponsor of "El Talisman," offered one lucky fan the opportunity to win a walk-on role, setting a new standard and making history in the U.S. Hispanic marketing industry.

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These are not the tired, poor, huddled masses of your grandparents’ generation.

They are the most educated and wealthiest immigrants in U.S. history, happier than the general public with their lives and more optimistic about the direction of the country.

And now, Asian Americans are the fastest-growing wave of immigrants in the United States, surpassing Hispanics, according to a survey released today by the Pew Research Center.

"It has happened somewhat under the radar screen," Paul Taylor, exec

MiTu Network https://www.youtube.com/mitu which successfully launched on April 30, reported today that the new digital video network on YouTube, exclusively dedicated to Latin lifestyle content for today's Hispanic women, is quickly garnering an impressive critical mass. To date, the network has 83 dedicated Latino lifestyle channels, compiled over 11,000 videos, 780,000 network subscribers, over 260 million total network views, and more than 20 million monthly network views. Furthermore, Beatriz

Daddy Yankee was at a Verizon store located at Brickyard Mall on June 13 to promote the "My Fabulous Quince" composition contest.

Verizon offers to pay all the party expenses, a higher education scholarship, and the presence of famous urban singer Daddy Yankee at the winner's cotillion party. The young women may send compositions until July 31, 2012 online at www.myfabulousquince.com

In 1972, Raul Soto immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, expecting to work for only a few years before returning to his home country.

Forty years later, the 69-year-old former fruit picker is growing old in America.

"I still think about going back to Mexico, but I have never returned," said Soto, now a U.S. citizen. "I never thought I would stay in this country, but I did."

In Washington state, the number of older Hispanic or Latino people now tops 20,000 — twice the number in 2000, according to d

Jobita Hernandez has been looking forward to today for a long time.

This morning, with a salsa band providing festive and fitting music, the businesswoman will snip a ribbon commemorating her business's most recent expansion, this time to a cavernous space in Bluffton's Sheridan Park.

Seemingly more like an airplane hangar than a store, the 22,000-square-foot El Super International dwarfs neighbors such as Sonic and KFC in a symbolic affirmation of the ascension of local, Hispanic-owned business

The number of Latino children and youth under 20 years of age diagnosed with diabetes is growing at an alarming rate -- the fastest of any ethnic group in the U.S.

It might be hard to tell a chubby-cheeked gordito that he can have only one helping of flan after dinner, but doctors say a healthy diet and good exercise habits are the key to fixing one of the Latino community's scariest health problems.

A new study released by research affiliates with the American Diabetes Association found that th

Anna Maria Chávez took over as the country’s chief Girl Scout last November. She's the first Latina to head the 3.2 million member organization.

Chávez grew up in the tiny town of Eloy, Ariz., between Phoenix and Tucson. And, of course, she was in a troop.

“I went away for the first time to go camping without my family. That was a huge thing," she recalled during a recent visit to San Diego. "And since that point it really charged me up to think about boundaries outside of Eloy.”

Chávez went to

The story of population growth in the United States is a story about Latinos reshaping our landscape. Over the past decade, they have accounted for 56% of America’s growth, now reaching 16% of the population, or more than 50 million citizens, even surpassing African-Americans to become the country’s biggest minority group. Latinos are certainly making their voices and preferences heard.

Such a phenomenon can also be seen in the showbiz world, as we’re finally starting to see a positive shift in

Reaching out to a fast-growing population of young Latinos is key to the country’s economic future, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said Friday in Des Moines.

A conversation with more than three dozen people from area Latino communities focused on jobs, a topic of intense interest among Hispanics across the country, Solis said.

To reach the next generation of Americans entering the workforce, Solis said her department has launched a social media campaign to connect people with job search res

Although 20% of the US Population is Latino, only 2% of all healthcare executives are prepared to address Latino healthcare challenges. The Association of Hispanics Healthcare Executives (AHHE), together with politicians, policy makers, and healthcare leaders, is providing a unique healthcare dialogue and solutions for the Latino community at its 2012 Annual Healthcare Diversity Awards Gala. Keynote Speaker, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Thomas Farley, MD, MPH,

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NEWS

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FOR RELEASE: June 13, 2012

TALE OF THREE SEGREGATIONS
Poor other-race neighbors contribute to poverty of Black and Hispanic neighborhoods

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Unlike most whites, blacks and Hispanics tend to have neighbors from other racial groups who are disproportionately likely to be poor. This contributes importantly to the high poverty rates of the neighborhoods lived in by black

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) was recently ranked as the number one institution in the nation for the number of doctoral degrees awarded to Hispanic students. The ranking was published in the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine's 2012 "Top 100 Colleges for Hispanics" edition.

For the fourth consecutive year, NSU earned the top spot on the list for doctoral degrees awarded in such high-demand fields as education, business, psychology, dental medicine, law, osteopathic medicine and

Who is Latino? Who counts as Native American?

The debate over who is considered a minority was brought to the spotlight by the Senate race in Massachusetts. Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren claimed she had Native American heritage, but there's no records to indicate that. Still, Warren insists that she learned of her background through family stories and that she is proud of her heritage.

Today, The New York World ran a story that talks about the real-world implications of these questions.

President Obama and his supporters continue to roll out efforts to woo Latino voters, but Latino and immigrant advocates say Mr. Obama's message will be hard to swallow without better attempts to reform the administration's deportation policies.

The Obama administration has pledged to focus its deportation efforts only on illegal immigrants who could be considered the "worst of the worst," as some have put it, and in November the Department of Homeland Security began reviewing about 300,000 back

The nation's rapidly growing Latino population is one of the most powerful forces working in President Barack Obama's favor in many of the states that will determine his contest with Mitt Romney. But Latinos are not registering or voting in numbers that fully reflect their potential strength, leaving Hispanic leaders frustrated and Democrats worried as they increase efforts to rally Latino support.

Interviews with Latino voters across the country suggested a range of reasons for what has become,

The polling firm Latino Decisions has been tracking Latino voter attitudes in the run-up to the 2012 election for some time now, and the latest temperature check deals with what’s referred to as “DREAM-light,” a yet-to-be-introduced alternative to the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act that is being floated by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

The poll also checks the temperature on Latino voters’ support for President Obama vs. GOP nominee-apparent Mitt Romney,

Verizon’s My Fabulous Quince Planning Expo Visits Chicago
and Offers Meet-And-Greet With Urban Latin Artist Daddy Yankee

WHAT: From June 1 through July 31, teens across the United States will have the chance to enter to win all-expenses-paid Quince, featuring a special performance by one of the most acclaimed award-winning Latin urban artists of all time, Daddy Yankee, as part of Verizon’s My Fabulous Quince essay contest.

 On Wednesday, June 13, 2012, Verizon will bring its My Fabulous Quin

Previous studies found that black patients fared poorly after transplants compared to whites, but less was known about how different racial groups do while they are waiting for a donor organ.

"The knowledge of disparity is usually the first step in ultimately getting rid of it," said Tajinder Singh from Boston Children's Hospital, who led the study that appeared in the journal Circulation.

Singh and his team gathered data from the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which maintai

Yahoo! Inc. , the premier digital media company, today unveiled Shine Latina - a home for bicultural Latina lifestyle content, within Yahoo! Shine, a top site for women's lifestyle content in the U.S. with more than 34 million unique visitors a month*.

Shine Latina takes a unique look at women's interests and approaches them with content in English, with nods to Hispanic cultural identity. The site - created by and for bicultural Latinas - brings Hispanic women together to share insights, spark