When federal agents descended on six meatpacking plants owned by Swift & Co. in December 2006, they rounded up nearly 1,300 suspected illegal immigrants that made up about 10% of the labor force at the plants.
But the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents did not cripple the company or the plants. In fact, they were back up and running at full staff within months by replacing those removed with a significant number of native-born Americans, according to a report by the Cente
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The U.S. Forest Service has apologized for suggesting that campers who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music may be armed marijuana growers, calling it "regrettable" and "insensitive."
Forest Service officials apologized to Colorado Hispanic leaders in a meeting two weeks ago and released a written apology this week.
The Forest Service issued a warning about armed drug growers last month amid an investigation into how much marijuana is being cultivated in national forests in
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Inspired by the many Hispanic families who help their children become the first to attend college, Sears Holdings has launched the PRIMERO Hispanic Heritage Scholarship(SM) and bilingual, social networking education website in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15).
In Spanish, "primero" means "first". The PRIMERO scholarship awards up to $10,000 toward college costs for those who are "first" in their family to attend college, as well as those continuing the family's
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Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) has been recognized as the third-highest ranked company in LATINA Style
magazine's "50 Best Companies for Latinas to Work for in the U.S." Marriott has remained on the 'top 50' list for 12 consecutive years.
According to LATINA Style, more than 800 of the most prominent corporations in the U.S. were included in the extensive search, and were evaluated in the following areas: the number of Latina executives, mentoring programs, Latina board members, educa
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The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies will celebrate its 10th anniversary with several events, including an academic symposium titled “Latino Studies: Past, Present and Future” from 9 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday (Sept. 16) in the McKenna Hall auditorium.
Rev. Virgilio Elizondo, professor of pastoral and Hispanic theology at Notre Dame, will deliver the keynote address at 11:45 a.m. and Rev. Daniel Groody, C.S.C., assistant professor of theology, will serve as moderator
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Did you know Salsa came from New York? That the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" is a cha cha cha? How did rap meet
reggae to make Reggaeton?
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, PBS will premiere Latin Music USA, a four-hour documentary series celebrating the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country and rhythm and blues and highlighting the great American music created by Latinos. Revealing the Latin sounds that have influenced the music of great American artists from the Drifters to the Isle
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Responsible Sports, a philanthropic program of insurance company Liberty Mutual, is accepting applications from youth sports organizations in the United States to participate in its Responsible Sports Community Grant program.
Teams and organizations compete in one of three categories for a Responsible Sports grant: large division (two hundred or more players), small division (under two hundred players), and educational groups (school athletic programs).
To be eligible for the program, league
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Early on a weekday morning, dozens of Latino evangelical leaders stream into a large church on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Greeting one another in Spanish, they sip coffee and share pastries until they are informed that class is about to begin.
The first course of the day? Hebrew.
They are here as part of a program sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, a global organization that supports Jewish life and promotes pluralism, to teach Latino evangelical leaders about Judaism.
“We starte
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Perez Hilton is a celebrity blogger who dishes out the latest Hollywood gossip, but there's something about his personal life you may not know.
Hilton is a Latino pioneer. He is one of the first Latino public figures in the U.S. to be openly gay. While Latinos have broken ground on the U.S. Supreme Court, in Hollywood and in professional sports, gay Latinos in the nation's public arena remain largely invisible.
Hilton says deep-seated homophobia within the Latino community has forced many gay
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Juan Sepulveda, who's leading the White House initiative on educational excellence for Latinos, is speaking today in Dallas. I'm going this afternoon to hear him, so I will report next week about what he said.
As readers of The Education Front know, Latinos and education is a theme we've repeatedly discussed on that site. Last month, we had Dallas principals Tony Tovar and Rawly Sanchez blog about what they thought worked in their largely Latino schools, Adamson and Sunset high schools.
Adamso
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a $396,648 grant to St. Philip’s College to help the school recruit, retain and educate more minority students for careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
St. Philip’s, a dual designation historically black college and a Hispanic serving institution, received the grant through a program titled “Project GeNex: Educating the Next Generation of STEM Professionals.”
“As the former chief education officer for NASA, I experienced first
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At Latino Speakers Bureau, Hispanic professional speakers are frequently sought out for Hispanic Heritage events, diversity conferences, employee events, management meetings and gala events. Since the first quarter of 2009, the California-based Bureau has reported a surge in the demand for Latino Comedy shows, a trend that founder, Leonor McCall-Rodriguez, views as a result of emotional fatigue from a prolonged economic recession. "Requests for motivational speakers and diversity experts are now
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Nancy Roldan Johnson and Beatriz Rodriguez may be ages apart, but a common story brings them together. Growing up in inner-city Bridgeport, Roldan Johnson was the first of her extended family of 70 to graduate from college. “It was a very lonely process for me. They didn’t understand why I wanted to break free from the status quo,” said Johnson. Beatriz, 17, also felt alone -- but by choice. She quit competitive swimming to avoid overwhelming anxiety.
“I’m very conservative and its nice to mee
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Ellen S. Silber, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in French literature, but it was statistics that steered her toward her current work—running a mentoring program for young Latinas.
In 2002, Silber was working on a leadership program for girls when she stumbled across some troubling statistics on young Latinas.
“I started reading the statistics and it convinced me that this is a population that deserves my efforts,” Silber said, referring to numbers like these more recent ones:
• One in five Latinas
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Latina role models, including recently confirmed Chief Justice Sonia Sotomayor, are important to Hispanics and women in general, said a Connecticut Air National Guard member, who was lauded for her own accomplishments here Sept. 10, 2009.
"She is an inspiration to all of us, especially Hispanic women," said Master Sgt. Lillian Natal. "It doesn't mean that inspiration just started because she took the job. She has been working a long time to get to this point, and finally, she has made the path
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Once a month, Carmen Rendón unfolds her rusted and rickety wire pushcart and walks the 30 or so blocks to the Northgate Gonzalez supermarket three miles southeast of her Sherman Heights home.
She pushes her cart slowly past the gritty convenience marts and fast food restaurants that provide the backdrop along National Avenue, stopping at each intersection to stabilize the cart with her free hand to prevent it from collapsing as she lowers it from the sidewalk into the street. She descends a lo
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Most Latinas have goals to graduate and get professional jobs, but challenges including discrimination and gender stereotyping undermine their chances of success, a new survey shows.
The discrimination -- sometimes from teachers and fellow students -- affects the young women's self-confidence and performance, leading to lower graduation rates, according to the report released last week by the National Women's Law Center and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
"About 80 pe
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Today, September 8, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor is being sworn into the Supreme Court for a second time, officially welcoming her as a justice. The first Hispanic, the third woman, and the first woman of color to serve the court, her investiture is a truly historical moment. And yet it is buried in the news.
It is a moment that I, as a Latina born and raised in the United States, could not even imagine happening as a young child in this country. There were no women of color and no Hispanics taught i
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The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business has been ranked the No. 1 graduate business school in the nation for Hispanic students by Hispanic Business magazine.
The ranking appears in the September 2009 edition.
“We are honored to be recognized by Hispanic Business,” says Lynda de la Viña, dean of the UTSA College of Business and Peter Flawn Professor of Economics. “This ranking speaks to the quality of our academic programming and the services that we provide our MBA students
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Ponce de Leon Federal Bank, Pan Con Todo restaurant, and the Made In Colombia boutique line the sidewalk on Bergenline Avenue, which runs through the center of Union City, New Jersey. Flags from Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic hang proudly in storefronts. Miniature Honduran flags dangle from the rear view mirrors of cars parked on the thoroughfare. More than 60 percent of Union City’s population is Latino. You don’t have to speak English to live here.
Just off Bergenline, there
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