With several risk factors affecting local young Latinas at disproportionate rates, Saturday's Soy Unica! Soy Latina! rally had an important goal: Helping girls make smart decisions.
The rally, organized annually by Latinas Unidas, attracted more than 150 girls to the University of Rochester for a Saturday morning mix of fun and serious business.
Girls aged 7 to 18 participated in workshops on topics such as healthy living, healthy and unhealthy relationships, personal finance, cultural traditi
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But there is a big problem -- too few of the media, and most importantly, Latinas don't know about all these different successful women who are today's trailblazers. That's where Escúchame comes in.
The new online organization
The Spanish-language soap topped Univision and English-language broadcast networks in the adults 18-34 demo in its time period Tuesday.
It's not a good sign when a Spanish-language soap tops English-language broadcast networks. That's what happened Tuesday night at 10 p.m. with Telemundo's La Reina del Sur. The program was No. 1 in its time slot in the adults 18-49 and 18-34 demographics, according to Nielsen. In the latter demo, La Reina topped CBS, ABC, NBC and Univision in the period.
La Re
MacArthur, Boeing, Others Provide $500,000+ for New Business Model for Arts Organizations
CHICAGO—The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP), embarking upon its third decade as the world’s first year-round presenter of American tap dance and contemporary percussive arts, has announced the establishment of the Collaborative Space for Sustainable Development (CSSD—working title), which will serve as a shared, affordable and eventually self-sufficient education, rehearsal and administrative facility.
"I was one of the founders, and this," he said, gesturing to the crowd that filled the Governor's Ballroom at the Hilton Austin, "was my dream."
Saturday night's event is an allegory of economic and population growth as much as it was a celebration of an organization.
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Inland Southern California's booming Hispanic population has spurred the growth of new business serving the Latino community, but it is also changing the cultural and economic landscape in broader ways as companies seek to tap into the community's growing economic clout.
New Census data show Hispanic residents made up nearly 2 million of the Inland Empire's 4.2 million population in 2010, and the growth of Hispanic residents continues to outpace population growth overall. In the most recent Cen
If it seems like the rest of the world is getting richer, it's true, it is.
The world's wealthiest people had a record-breaking good year in 2011, says Forbes magazine, which released its list of the globe's billionaires. During the year, 214 people became billionaires, bringing the world's total to 1,210 people holding $4.5 trillion. These billionaires' wealth is larger than the Gross Domestic Product of Germany.
THE LIST: World's richest people as ranked by 'Forbes' magazine
These wealthy ind
It's official: Latinos are the new majority across the Coachella Valley.
Their numbers are up, and dramatically so.
In 2000, roughly 122,000 Latinos called the valley home.
In 2010 U.S. Census data released Tuesday, that number is now 187,900, a 54 percent increase. The total includes the valley's nine cities, Bermuda Dunes, Mecca, Thermal and Thousand Palms.
The 65,900-plus Latinos gained in the past decade across the valley are nearly the equivalent of adding another Desert Hot Springs and
“America cannot become the world leader in college degrees, nor will it have a globally competitive workforce
Despite "significant" job growth in sectors with high Hispanic participation, Latinos face ever greater job insecurity, according to a report released Monday by the National Council of La Raza.
While Latinos "are making important contributions to the industries that are helping drive our economic recovery," they remain "in a precarious position when it comes to keeping their jobs and advancing in the labor market," Eric Rodríguez, NCLR Vice President of Research, Advocacy and Legislation, said
But what is the true picture of how women are really doing in the U.S.? How a
Those eye-catching numbers represent the immense, and largely untapped, scale and wealth of the Hispanic-American media market. Put into greater perspective, if Hispanic-Americans comprised their own country, it would be the fifth-largest, by population, in the European Union. And this demographic is growing -- rapidly.
Despite thes
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The number of Americans who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth rose at the end of last year, preventing many people from selling their homes in an already weak housing market.
CoreLogic said Tuesday that about 11.1 million households, or 23.1 percent of all mortgaged homes, were underwater in the October-December quarter. That's up from 22.5 percent, or 10.8 million households, in the July-September quarter.
The number of underwater mortgag
According to newly released U.S. Census Bureau figures, around 756,000 Latinos live in Washington, more than 21,000 of them in Spokane County, accounting for 4.5 percent of the county’s population.
Spokesman.com reports that although most Latinos living in Washington are in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties on the West Side, the most recent census numbers show Hispanic d
In 2010, Americans started their own businesses at the highest rate in 15 years—but they were more apt to go at it alone, says a new study.
According to a study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 (.34 percent of American adults created them). That's the same as the 2009 rate, but an uptick from 2007, and "represents the highest level over the past decade and a half," says the study. But the rate at which these businesses emp
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The Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Treasury released their Monthly Housing Scorecard for February on Wednesday afternoon.
This monthly report is an attempt to encapsulate the Obama Administration's efforts to stabilize the housing market and provide a snapshot of the status of that market. It contains a round-up of information from both public and private sources, most of which has already been reported here on MND. The Scorecard is issued simultaneous wi
I grew up in Laredo, Texas, where the Latino population has always hovered close to 90 percent. I don’t remember being conscious of that, there were no Latinos or non-Latinos, we were all just people. Everyone had rich vowels in their names, mixed Spanish with their English and had tíos and primos.
So the recent revelation that Latinos will be the majority in Texas by 2040 was, for me, a foregone conclusion. Even all these years later, living in San Antonio for more than 25 years, the announcem
Fresh off last week’s U.S. Census data showing phenomenal growth among Oregon Latinos, particularly in the Portland area, comes an interview with the head of a leadership development program aimed at teaching Latino community members how to become involved in city government.
Cynthia Gomez, a program director for the nonprofit advocacy group Latino Network, says the Diversity and Civic Leadership Academy has produced more than 50 alumni to go along with 40 participants who are currently enrolle
