A longtime Murrieta resident has emerged from the shadow of violence to become a finalist in a television contest that could catapult her into a high-profile modeling and acting career.
Codie Cabral has reached a point in life that she always seemed destined to achieve. But first she had to shake off a violence-tinged relationship that skirted the periphery of a widely-publicized criminal case that was dubbed the “Murrieta Fight Club gang.”
More recently, Cabral had to convince TV show produc
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An Indiana University cancer center is launching a campaign to shed light on why breast cancer often is more aggressive in Hispanic women than in women of other ethnicities.
Researchers at the Susan Komen Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center are encouraging women, particularly Hispanic women, to donate breast tissue and a blood sample for their effort. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Latinos continue to rise as the fastest-growing ethnic group in Kansas City-area schools, but too often they stand alone.
That was the message that Hispanic students and teachers wanted to deliver to the Obama administration, which last week sent a representative to the area to hear their concerns and ideas.
Alexis Gonzalez, a teenage student in the Park Hill School District, told how he and his friends tried to start an after-school Hispanic club. The attempt withered because it had no adult
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Drunken Cubs fans are an easy target, and considering i.O. Theater's heart-of- Wrigleyville locale, the drunken Cubs fans (female division) portrayed by Wendy Mateo and Lorena Diaz quite likely resemble the very people you just brushed past on your way into the theater. That is good comedy.
As a duo, the women perform under the name Dominzuelan, and their material reflects their shared Latina backgrounds (Dominican and Venezuelan) and their experiences as young women in America.
"People in the
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Michigan State University has received a $1.5 million federal grant to work with the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey to increase the number of Hispanic doctoral students in neuroscience.
The grant comes from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health. It builds on an existing partnership between the Michigan and Puerto Rican universities.
Undergraduate students from the University of Puerto Rico will visit Michigan State for two summe
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The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the U.S. declined to the lowest level in a decade during the past year, a sign that the recession is deterring economic migrants from heading north in search of jobs.
However, there is no evidence of an increase between March 2008 and March 2009 in the number of Mexicans returning home from the U.S., according to an analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center, an independent research group in Washington.
The slowing of Mexican immigration to the U.S. is part of a
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Our country is stressed. In fact, 42% of the 8,453 U.S. adults we surveyed -- using a nationally representative online sample -- in March/April '09 strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement "I feel stressed most of the time." But among Hispanics, agreement was even higher, at 50%; this can manifest itself in mistrust of the country's financial sector and, in the case of Hispanics, participation in it.
Given the growth in the U.S. Hispanic population, their participation in the financial se
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There are more than 18,000 Hispanics living in Chesterfield County, and that number is expected to rise in the next few years. The county is taking notice.
He's a hot commodity. Juan Santacoloma rushes between county departments and his office working to meet the needs of local Latinos.
"I try to solve all the different problems or concerns that Latinos have," he said. RED FULL STORYRead more…
Saul Moya’s restaurant, El Puerto Mexican Restaurant, serves the same size crowds as it did two years ago. But his revenue still has slipped.
From Moya’s perspective, local residents are still choosing to eat out on occasion, but they’re being more thrifty with their cash.
“Business has come down about 20 percent,” said Moya, who has owned the restaurant in Fox Lake for seven years. “When the people come to eat, they eat the less expensive dishes.”
Moya’s business, like much of the Hispanic
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Some interesting figures from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling on the governor’s race in New Jersey. PPP shows Republican challenger Christopher Christie leading Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine by a 50%-36% margin, which is pretty much in line with other firms’ top line results; the realclearpolitics.com average of recent polls is a 51%-39% Christie lead.
The first thing I found interesting is that PPP stratifies its results by area code. The area code lines run pretty close to the c
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Republicans’ dilemma in connecting with the growing Hispanic electorate will be on vivid display Tuesday: GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote overwhelmingly against confirming Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latino nominee to the Supreme Court. And the Democratic Party chairman will address the nation’s largest Latino political group — partly in Spanish. No national GOP official is speaking. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Paychecks, housing values and general optimism have all contracted in the state during the recession that began at the end of 2007, and now the tough times have ushered in another slowdown — at hospital delivery rooms.
California had 14,570 fewer births in 2008 than in the previous year, a 2.6 percent drop that surprised demographers with its size. It was the first annual decline in births since 2001, when the state was last mired in a recession. While the economy is one likely cause, the migra
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She's best known as TV's "Ugly Betty," but on Saturday, young Latina actress America Ferrara was the picture of poise as she gave a college commencement address here stressing the importance of education.
"I can relate to these graduates," Ferrara, 25, told the Chicago Sun-Times, after speaking at Navy Pier on Saturday to more than 2,500 graduates of Kaplan University, a national online university with offices in Illinois.
"My journey of trying to keep my education a priority in my life -- wh
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They are the children of 1969 — the year that America’s most prestigious universities began aggressively recruiting blacks and Latinos to their nearly all-white campuses.
No longer would Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia be the domain of the privileged. Instead, in response to the national soul-searching prompted by the civil rights movement, America’s premier colleges would try to become more representative of the population as a whole. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Brenda Gonzalez is deputy director of New Routes to Community Health, a national program that uses locally focused media created by immigrants to improve their health. With a bachelor’s degree in social psychology, she immigrated to Wisconsin 14 years ago from Mexico and also has worked for the city health department and as director of interpreter services and cultural outreach for Dean Health System. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Recently, the Associated Press reported that hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid full salary with benefits to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just doing what they please.
Why? Because their union makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to fire them. So they are banished to the so-called "rubber room" waiting for months, even years, for their disciplinary hearin
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On a recent morning, Kris W. Kobach, a conservative law professor, rushed late into a federal courtroom here with his suit slightly rumpled and little more than a laptop under his arm. His mission was to persuade the judge to uphold an ordinance adopted by a Dallas suburb that would bar landlords from renting housing to illegal immigrants.
A team of lawyers from a Latino advocacy group had set up early at the opposing table, fortified with legal assistants and stacks of case documents. Unfazed
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The Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey has sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to revoke 287(g) status for Morristown and Monmouth County, according to Sunday's editions of El Diario, a regional Spanish language daily newspaper.
The letter was sent last week signaling "profound disagreement" with the administration's move to grant immigration officer status to Morristown police and the Monmouth Sheriff's Department.http://www.impre.com/eldiariony/noticias/2009/7/19/no-a-p
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A nonprofit group aims to keep young Latina girls in school and on the right path.
About to enter its second year, Circle de Luz selects a group of young Latina women about to begin seventh grade and mentors them through their senior year with the hopes they'll continue on to college.
"There's a general stereotyping of Latina girls that doesn't allow for them a lot of possibility and if that's the kind of theme you get from people as you walk through life then you start to believe and buy into
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