Perhaps no one was more excited about the L.A. Philharmonic's new music director than the 60 members of the Latino Welcome Committee, which formed shortly after the Venezuelan's appointment.
José Luis Sedano says that his love of classical music began as a child, when his father, a bracero worker in the United States, would bring records home to Mexico City.
"The first music I knew was Chopin’s ‘Polonaise,' " says the 67-year-old photographer and filmmaker. Later, after he moved with his fami
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North Carolina's community college system voted Friday to admit illegal immigrants at its campuses next year, a move unlikely to bring an immediate surge in undocumented students given a requirement that they pay higher tuition.
The State Board of Community Colleges approved the rules, which according to proponents will provide clarity after four previous policy changes on the topic since 2001.
A no-admission policy, with some rare exceptions, has been in place since May 2008, but Friday's vot
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For Latino students at Penn, paying for college and college-related expenses may become a little easier thanks to the Association of Latino Alumni.
Last Friday night at La Casa Latina's 10th anniversary celebration, ALA announced the creation of an emergency fund to help students in financial straits.
Although the grant is available to all Penn students, ALA wants to "help as many of the Latino students as we can," said '91 College and '99 Graduate School of Education alumna Tatiana Olmedo, an
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CNN and a federal agency director looked west for input on a burgeoning segment of U.S. population
Two very different gatherings happened within 24 hours last week in Las Vegas, each at high levels in their respective worlds, each involving Hispanics.
In one, a heavyweight member of the national media sought input from valley residents on a major production, “Latino in America.” In the other, a top federal official gathered input on future legislation that would affect many of the nation’s Hi
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The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) recently honored the winners of the 2009 National and Regional Hispanic Leadership & Business Excellence Awards during its 30th Annual National Convention, Business Expo & Latina Summit held in Denver, Colorado, from September 16-19.
"On behalf of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, our Board of Directors, and our network of more than 200 local and regional Hispanic chambers of commerce across our nation, I congratulate and applaud this
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Today the Hispanic College Fund (HCF) launched the Hispanic Youth Institute, a web-based initiative designed to empower high school students to pursue a college education, enter a professional career, and give back to their communities. The Hispanic Youth Institute will initially serve the 2,600 alumni of HCF's Hispanic Youth Symposium, a four-day college empowerment program that has been hosted in numerous cities across the U.S. since 2004. Alumni will invite other students to participate in st
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You can learn a lot from people by listening to their stories.
That has been the driving idea behind StoryCorps. Since 2003 the nonprofit project has been collecting oral histories from everyday Americans across the United States.
One copy of the recorded history goes to the participant and one copy to the American Folklife Ceter at the Library of Congress. To date, StoryCorps has recorded more than 27,000 stories, many of which have been broadcast on public radio stations.
The project is no
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Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month, Kraft Foods Hosts the Consortium of Latino Employee Organizations; Promotes Series of Professional Development Events
Celebrating this very important month for all U.S. Latinos, the Kraft Foods Latino Council is honoring Hispanic Heritage Month by hosting the first Chicago-area Consortium of Latino Employee Organizations at its Northfield headquarters today. This effort unites Latino employee councils from 15 major companies to foster networking and the excha
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The Imperial Valley Chapter of MANA, a National Latina Organization,Honorees will be officially recognized on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at the Las Primeras Awards Gala and Scholarship Fundraiser. introduced the three honorees for the 2009 Las Primeras Awards on September 9 at a membership mixer in Calexico. Each year MANA de Imperial Valley honors Latina women from Imperial County who embody the values and philosophy of the organization of empowering Latinas through leadership development, comm
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Laughter and tears mark the history of Hispanics, recorded as part of a new project to capture Hispanic voices in Miami and across the nation.
Gustavo Mestas walked 57 blocks a day to medical school because he didn't have the money for the bus. But he still saved up enough money to buy his daughter a Barbie doll to replace the roomful of dolls she left behind when the family fled Cuba.
His daughter's voice breaks as she recounts the story as part of a new initiative by the oral history project
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Add another feather in the veritable bird's nest that is Gingrich Inc. The former Speaker of the House, and all-around conservative idea-smith, has launched a news website for Hispanic Americans, the rapidly growing segment of swing voters. It's called The Americano, and it is the bilingual brainchild of Sylvia Garcia, a longtime employee of Gingrich Communications, the former speaker's consulting business. "The idea came during the election," Garcia says. "There really isn't any media that is
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Stung by accusations from some Democrats that bigotry underlies virulent opposition to President Obama and wary of further setbacks among minority voters, some Republicans are lashing back with a new mantra: We are not racists.
That theme was on display over the weekend at an annual pep rally for conservative voters where several of the GOP's potential 2012 challengers to Obama began laying out their arguments to unseat the man who made history as the country's first black president.
Republic
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President Barack Obama’s signature battle to overhaul the United States’ $2.5 trillion healthcare industry to extend coverage and lower costs for Americans has met fierce opposition from Republicans.
But a move by Democrat backers to exclude 12 million illegal immigrants from buying health coverage and restrict the participation of authorized migrants has drawn the ire of U.S. Hispanics — a bloc that overwhelmingly turned out to vote for Obama in last year’s election.
Hispanic lawmakers and a
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President Barack Obama announced the appointment of several individuals to the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino.
The following individuals were appointed by President Obama to sit on the Commission: Emilio Estefan, Jr., Andrés W. López, Cindy Peña, Abigail M. Pollak, and Cid Wilson. Their bios are below. The President also announced that Gilberto Cárdenas and José B. Fernández, currently Members of the Commission, will continue their servic
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Are the nation's efforts to curb Latina teen pregnancy actually making young Latinas more vulnerable?
Vanessa,* age 19, watched President Obama's recent education address to students while holding her infant son and sitting with her niece Liz,* age 13. A few weeks earlier, Vanessa had become one of the growing number of Latina teen moms in the United States, surviving on her fiancé's minimum wage job at Target and temporarily postponing a college education. What are the country's leaders telli
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Posted by Holly Dotterer on September 23, 2009 at 12:30pm
Fast-paced, growing strategic communications firm is accepting applications for a fall intern to work on a variety of projects.Opportunities include writing press releases, pitching stories, coordinating mailings, clipping news stories, assembling briefing books and press packets, researching issues and handling event logistics. Responsibilities will grow with your abilities.Candidate must be able to work 9:00 - 5:00 M-F (plus additional hours when necessary). The internship will have an initial
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The number of foreign-born residents of the U.S. declined for the first time since at least 1970, as a recession and tight labor market dented America's image as the land of opportunity.
A decline in construction jobs lured fewer immigrants from their home countries, especially those from Mexico, according to the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey.
In multiple ways -- falling homeownership, families moving in with others, couples putting off marriage -- the report illustrated th
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Timi Aguilar faced a decision in 2004, after more than 10 years of corporate public relations work.
Should she move from Denver to Texas, following her job at AT&T, where she was the company’s Western region public relations director? (AT&T merged with SBC Communications Inc., and her job would be transferred to Dallas.)
Or stay in Denver, where she and her husband wanted to raise their family, and follow her dream of striking out on her own?
“I was scared,” Aguilar said. “I thought, maybe t
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When Ana Escobar sits down with other members of the Judicial Nominating Commission this week, she will be making history. Escobar is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the panel that nominates judicial candidates to the governor.
Her appointment and the appointment of Renata Soto to the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission, the panel that evaluates appellate-level judges up for re-election, will help bring diversity to politically powerful committees, supporters say.
"It's big," said
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