The National Museum of the American Latino moved one step closer to reality Tuesday with a kickoff event at the U.S. Capitol for the museum’s commission featuring Hollywood actress Eva Longoria Parker of Texas and Miami music producer Emilio Estefan.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asked the congressionally created commission to report to lawmakers on the viability of the museum in one year instead of two years. Key organizers predicted that a museum celebrating the Latino experience, possibly
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Rep. Yvette Clarke and about 100 New York clergy members have a message on immigration for President Obama: It’s not just about Latinos and it’s time to get moving on reform.
Clarke and the clergy, many representing Caribbean and African immigrants, are set to deliver that message today to fellow members of Congress and the media in a 1 p.m. press conference.
“I think if the President applies himself to immigration the same way he applies himself to health care, we can pass immigration reform
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My grandfather pulled my mother out of school when she was fourteen. The reason: she clunked a geography test. The fact that the teacher went to my grandfather to explain many kids in her class had failed that test and to beg grandpa not to make the biggest mistake of his life did not make a difference. Unfortunately, my mother did not have her mother—who died four years earlier—around anymore to help persuade the old man.
For my mother this was traumatic. She swore that if she ever had childre
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"I'll take two chili, uh..." a hungry customer stammers at the front of a two-hour-long line. "Chile rellenos," the money-handler trills back in perfect Spanish. This is not a trendy Tex-Mex restaurant; and it's more than 1,000 miles from the Mexican border.
The stuffed pepper causing the stutter is the hottest menu item at St. Cecilia's Lenten fish fry in St. Louis, Missouri. Chile rellenos, a traditional Mexican dish, have replaced fish as the main draw for Catholics giving up meat on Friday
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CNN is airing a four-hour special on Latinos in America this week that ignores its own commentator Lou Dobbs, whose persistent advocacy against illegal immigration has angered many Hispanics.
Some activists have started an anti-Dobbs petition drive, and an advocacy group's effort to criticize Dobbs within the documentary was turned down by CNN. This week's special has left many Latinos with mixed feelings: proud that CNN talks about issues important to them but disappointed the network isn't a
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DeeDee Blase founded "Somos Republicans" to recruit to Arizona Hispanics to the Repubican Party, but not the official state party or the official local party. Somos Republicans (which translates to "we are Repubicans") deliberately distances itself from all official Republican Party entities, citing the dissatisfaction of Hispanics with Republican leaders.
According to the Arizona Republic, Blase believes that it "helps her cause to not be associated with either the state or county GOP." Arizo
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As Hispanic Heritage Month draws to a close today, it’s worth noting that while most of us have been affected by the current recession, much of our nation’s Hispanic population has been mired in its own recession for some time.
The National Institute for Latino Policy cites a Hispanic poverty rate in 2007 of 22 percent, compared to 8 percent for whites. Those numbers have no doubt soared for both groups since last year’s economic downturn.
Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Cou
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University of Nevada, Reno Professor Emma Sepulveda Pulvirenti was one of 23 people in the country recently appointed to the National Museum of the American Latino Commission, as announced by The White House.
The Commission is tasked with studying the feasibility of, and creating a plan for, a new national museum in the nation’s capital that would be dedicated to portraying the art, history and culture of the Latino population of the United States.
The Commission members were appointed by Pre
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Latina voters with access to the internet are more likely to be informed about new state laws and the legislative
process in general than non-connected Latina voters, according to a report released today by HOPE (Hispanas Organized for Political Equality). The poll was conducted by Bendixen & Associates and highlights the importance of
bridging the digital divide to engage the Latina voting bloc for civic participation. The poll, Public Opinion Study Of California Latina Electorate, is the firs
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Every year, Metropolitan State College of Denver honors Richard T. Castro's dedication to social change through a visiting professorship.
This year's visitor is Delilah Montoya, a pioneer artist and educator at the University of Houston.
Castro, who died in 1991, was seen as a Denver bridge builder, uniting disparate communities through conversations about human rights, social justice and equality.
Montoya builds bridges, too, but focuses her efforts on the Latina community.
She emphasizes
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The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), the leading advocate for nearly 3 million Hispanic-owned
businesses and over 200 local Hispanic chambers throughout the United States, is pleased to announce the appointment of Javier Palomarez as its President & CEO.
"A pioneer in multicultural marketing, Javier brings more than two decades of corporate experience and entrepreneurial insight from which the Chamber and its members will greatly benefit," said David C. Lizarraga, Chairman o
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All midlife and older Americans have been feeling the impact of the recession. But the effects have been even harsher for African-American and Hispanic retirees and baby boomers heading for retirement, according to a new AARP study.
AARP's "Closer Look" survey of nearly 1,000 Americans ages 45 and older shows that in the past year ethnic boomers and elders have struggled to pay their medical costs; had trouble paying for food, heating and other essential needs; lost jobs or saw their hours cut;
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Scores on the most important nationwide math test increased only marginally for eighth graders and not at all for fourth graders, continuing a six-year trend of sluggish results that suggest the nation will not come close to bringing all children to proficiency by 2014, a central goal of the Bush-era federal education law, No Child Left Behind.
Thirty-nine percent of fourth graders and 34 percent of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level on the test, administered this spring.
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A shocking video of a group of kids beating 16-year-old Derrion Albert to death in an after-school melee was the fifth student death in just six weeks of this new school year.
"What happened to Derrion is barbaric, it was barbaric," anti-violence advocate Diane Latiker said.
It's opened the nation's eyes to Chicago's youth murders, reports CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston.
In each of the last three years a classroom of children has been killed - from 27 in 2006 to a record 37 in 2008.
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Miami-Dade's Hispanic population grew from 2007 to 2008, the latest US Census Bureau American Community Survey shows — though several segments of the local Hispanic community shrank during the period.
There could be myriad explanations, experts say, including the struggling local economy or a lure back to home or Spanish-speaking countries. However, the changes could also be a result of small sample size and tweaks in the survey, one demographer cautions, meaning the changes may not truly refle
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During all their swine flu briefings the past few months, city and federal health officials have been virtually silent about the outsize impact the pandemic appears to be having on blacks and Hispanics.
The Centers for Disease Control alluded to the problem in a small Sept. 4 report, but only in a passing mention.
That report, an analysis of the first H1N1-related deaths among U.S. children, revealed that 33% (12 of 36) were among Hispanics. All told, half of the H1N1 children's deaths betwee
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Posted by Donna Reid on October 4, 2009 at 10:40pm
You need to be very cautious when selecting a resume writing service as anybody can put up a sign that they write resumes. In fact 1 company that secretly positions itself “#1” really sends the resumes abroad to be produced and produces very awful broken English resumes. Other companies providing resume help deliver nothing more than a prettier format of what you have.So here’s how the industry works and what you should look for when selecting a company to take resume writing help.1) Avoid resum
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GDP Outlook: Peru Best
Peru will have the fastest-growing GDP among Latin America's top economies both this and next year, the International Monetary Fund predicts in its latest World Economic Outlook released today.
Meanwhile, the fund revised up its forecasts for Brazil, the region's top economy, and it now predicts that Mexico, Latin America's second-largest economy, will leave recession next year.
Peru's GDP should expand by 1.5 percent this year and 5.8 percent next year, the IMF says.
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Census Bureau study also finds stay-at-home moms skew younger
Sonia Martinez and many other mothers who take their children to the Guadalupe Head Start program worked before they had children.
Martinez, 30, worked for a cleaning service. Others like Laura Ocegueda worked at a restaurant, as did Isela Patino. Luz Melendez did in-home baby-sitting.
But once their children were born, these four women - all from Mexico and all with working husbands - quit their jobs to stay home with their chil
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Posted by Eduardo Diaz on October 2, 2009 at 5:15pm
Today we all know that staying healthy in these stressful times is quite a challenge, but there is a great product out there that has been great for my wife and I. I would like to introduce to you MonaVie. Some of you may have heard about it. We have been drinking this 19 fruit, with the world reknown Açai (ah-sah-ee) for almost 3 years and with 4ozs per day gives us our daily 13 servings of fruits and vegetables. You think that's great? MonaVie is loaded with antioxidants, which have been prove
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