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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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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A. The square footage of your home.B. How much gasoline your car uses.C. A person or organization's contribution to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.Answer: http://www.roy-greenconsultant.com/
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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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