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Maricela García to Assume Leadership Role of Gads Hill Center

Chicago, IL April 1, 2012 – The Board of Directors of Gads Hill Center announced today the appointment of Maricela García as its new Chief Executive Officer. Ms. García is the first Latina in the agency’s history to hold this position and succeeds Barbara Castellan who led this 114-year old non-profit organization for the past 19 years.

Ms.

Immigration is one of the issues that will be put on the backburner as U.S. President Barack Obama focuses on the campaign trail in the hopes of winning his second term in office.

Obama has been blunt about election-year constraints. At a March 6 news conference, he acknowledged Hispanic supporters' anger over his failure to achieve immigration changes, including paths to legal status for some undocumented immigrants.

"When I came into office, I said, 'I am going to push to get this done,'" Obam

The self-described American patriot leaps into the ring amid blaring music and loud boos from an overwhelmingly Latino audience, who hold aloft signs in Spanish supporting his masked Mexican opponents.

"My name is RJ Brewer and I'm from Phoenix, Arizona," the wrestler proclaims, in a video of a recent match provided by the promoter. Taunts inside the arena get louder.

The wrestler proceeds to rail against Mexican beer and to demand that people speak English. Then he points to the message painted

Businesses take notice; Hispanics are taking their growing $1 trillion buying power online.

According to Boostability, an online marketing company based in American Fork, Utah, there are more than 30 million Hispanics actively online, and businesses across the country are now catering to this growing online segment. The Internet has rapidly become an integral part of daily life. Hispanics are using the Internet to shop for large retail items, find local businesses and to look up entertainment in

Although affordability and funding is often prescribed as key to getting Latinos through college, a panel of Latino students said Friday there's another challenge — and it's cultural.

Promoting the idea that higher education is worth the investment means changing the mentality in their homes and neighborhoods, they said.

“Traditional Hispanic culture still dictates that you stay at home until you get married or get a job,” Mitzi Torres, a senior at Burbank High School, told the audience at a Co

As a Republican primary race increasingly defined by demographics and math drags into April, a daunting demographic mountain looms on the horizon for Mitt Romney if he becomes the GOP presidential nominee: winning over Latino voters who could prove to be pivotal in November.

For Republicans, the math is simple -- and harsh. There are 38.7 million Latinos in the United States, making them the country's largest minority group, according to the most recent Census data. And a recent poll shows if th

The statistics are remarkable and defy stereotypical notions about who Latinas are and the role we play in current U.S. society. Regardless of outdated and distorted perceptions about us as a group, the facts are incontrovertible.

For example:
788,000 Latinas now run their own businesses, according to the most recent Survey of Business Owners (last conducted in 2007). This represents a 46% increase against a 20% found across all female business owners over a five-year period. Their national backgr

In a historic partnership between two visionary travel industry organizations, the NTA-ASTA Hispanic Business Development Task Force met for the first time in conjunction with Tianguis Turistico Mexico and developed a strategic plan to capture the undertapped US Hispanic travel market.

“Because tourism creates jobs and the Hispanic market represents 16 percent of the US population, there is an unprecedented opportunity for growth,” said Olga Ramudo, a member of both NTA and ASTA. “We want to ens

Lance Winslow in preparation for a book he is writing stated that the number one reasons for Home Schooling was violence in schools. He stated this fact in an ezine article on http://ezinearticles.com/?Violence-in-Schools;-Number-One-Reason-for-Home-Schooling&id=457852

I'm not sure where he got his facts, so I can't vouch for the validity of this claim, however I do know at least two families in my own circle who pulled their kids out for this very reason. Parents vehemently complained to the sch

10 Reasons to Homeschool
Excerpted from the National Home Education Network's posting (55 Reasons to Homeschool)
http://www.waldsfe.org/Humor/55reasons.htm

1. …Allow children time to learn subjects not usually taught in their school.

2. …Allow children to have time for more in-depth study than what is allowed in school.

3. …Allow children to learn at their own pace, not too slow or too fast. (You don;t have to be concerned about teaching to the average)

4. …Allow children to work at a level that is a

For This Child We Prayed
CHAPTER 3
excerpted from: For This Child We Prayed: Living with the Secret Shame of Infertility

Year of Jubilee is the Year of Grief To Me
"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit..."
Ephesians 5:18a

February 19, 1997

Dear Children:

The other day, after watching our niece and nephew, your father and I asked ourselves,“do we really want kids?” They wanted to play and we wanted to watch a movie. Shoot,we’d pretty much gotten used to doing things when we wan

Infertility Press: A division of Emperor Publishing is looking for stories of Black and Hispanic People who were, or currently are struggling with Infertility. Pays in copies of books as well as discounted books to contributors. There are no guidelines, simply email your story, poem, or encouraging words to lena@infertilitypress.com. Please be sure to include your name and contact information. Pseudonyms are okay as well, as long as we have current contact info. A letter will be mailed or emaile

In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, many Hispanics are talking about voting for the lesser of two evils. The hard part is figuring out the lesser evil.

African-Americans aren’t facing the same dilemma, and yet many of those on the far left are also disappointed in President Obama. While most black voters approve of his job performance, there is also frustration that he hasn’t been more attentive to issues such as the lack of economic development in African-American communities, high

The National Association of Hispanic Nurses launched a Mentorship Academy in July 2011 to maintain a formal peer-driven process to help advance Hispanic nurses' educations and careers.

The academy pairs novice nurses with experienced mentors, said Vivian Torres-Suarez, RN, BSN, MBA, director and founder of the Mentorship Academy. "They work together for a year on goals and objectives set by the novice and on achieving tasks related to advancing their career and/or their education," she said.

Tor

Finding "almost laughable" Republican claims that newly drawn electoral districts were not influenced by partisan factors, a panel of three federal judges unanimously ruled that new maps for two districts on Milwaukee's south side violate the Voting Rights Act and dilute Latinos' voting power.

The judges enjoined the state's Government Accountability Board from implementing Act 43 as it stands, but Wisconsin's 130 other newly drawn districts are expected to stay the same.
Act 43 concerned redist

The closest those attending the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s (USHCC) Legislative Summit will get to the cherry blossoms now in season is a meeting room, make that many meeting rooms. Entrepreneurs have signed up for a crash course in Washington, D.C., to learn how to influence the players in government who can help Hispanic-owned businesses grow. This includes a new alliance between the USHCC and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced at this conference with the a

The Friends of the American Latino Museum (Friends), a 501(c)(3) created to support the American Latino Museum initiative, surpassed 100,000 followers on Twitter and has accumulated 70,000 fans on Facebook and 67,000 supporters through its website, bringing its total reach to over 237,000 supporters. A renewed energy and hope for the museum is increasing rapidly since the introduction of the Smithsonian American Latino Museum Act earlier this year in the House and Senate. The Smithsonian America

The Republicans are committing political suicide by catering to the xenophobic vote. Assuming that Latinos will vote for the candidate promising the most free taxpayer money shows how out-of-touch the mainstream media and a lot of American politicians from both parties are with voters in the Hispanic community.

If the Republicans would talk about social issues and economic issues and drop the endless ranting about immigration I would almost guarantee they'd receive 60+ percent of votes from Latin

SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

This view of bilingual

Employment among Hispanics and Asians in the U.S. has climbed back to levels seen prior to the last recession, while hiring of whites and blacks has lagged behind, a study found.

The number of Hispanic workers reached 20.7 million in the last three months of 2011, up from 19.9 million in the final quarter of 2007 when the economic slump began, according to a report by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center, a non- partisan research group. Employment among Asians climbed by about 263,000 during