Arturo Velasquez, a Mexican immigrant who started a successful jukebox business with a single machine in his mother's taco shop, was an educational and political leader in the Hispanic community who helped many newcomers get a foothold in Chicago.
Mr. Velasquez, 93, died of natural causes Friday, April 17, in his Palos Hills home, said his son Arthur.
In 1975, Mr. Velasquez became the first Mexican-American on the City Colleges of Chicago board of trustees. He remained on the board for more th
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On the heels of reporting historic ratings growth, Discovery en Español is using the ongoing upfront season to provide advertisers with data revealing new insights on Spanish-language audiences in the U.S.
"Our viewers want us to provide them with a view of the world, not necessarily a Hispanic perspective of the world," said Discovery Networks U.S. Hispanic Group vice president of advertising sales Victor Parada. "Stories don't have to be all the time about Juan Pérez," said Parada, who this m
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Inside a burning building, fire doesn't discriminate between Matthew Marcarelli and Gary Tinney. Inside the New Haven Fire Department, however, skin color has put them on opposite sides of a lawsuit that could transform hiring procedures nationwide.
This week, the Supreme Court will consider the reverse discrimination claim of Marcarelli and a group of white firefighters. They all passed a promotion exam, but the city threw out the test because no blacks would have been promoted, saying the exa
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Texas and nine other states offer in-state college tuition rates to illegal aliens, but the College Board, an influential group of 5,000 colleges and universities said Tuesday it’s urging Congress to give thousands of illegal immigrants tuition aid and a path to citizenship.
The Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors or DREAM Act would amend a 1996 law to give illegal immigrants access to higher education benefits and a path to citizenship.
The push comes as opponents warn that immi
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Mexican-American women have unique ideas about what it means to be healthy and beautiful compared to mainstream American women.
They are more confident in their curves and those who diet do it more to avoid illness than to look good in their clothing, a local study revealed and area residents confirmed.
Nurse Practitioner Yvette Petti, who has worked with Latinas in Battle Creek, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Toledo, conducted a pilot study of Mexican immigrants between 2002 and 2003 and a doctor
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It reads like the plotline for a particularly lurid Law & Order episode: A 43-year-old Bronx woman dies suddenly; her death seems tragic but unsuspicious, until the medical examiner discovers a silicone embolism in her lungs and her family reveals that she'd been given body-plumping silicone injections by an unlicensed cosmetologist, who would have been charged with homicide had she not fled to the Dominican Republic.
It's a trend that's either a gruesome indictment of our obsession with vanit
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THE LATEST thing in Latino cooking is a little less Latino.
The growing political and cultural clout of American Hispanics has infused the collective American dinner plate with the flavors of the Latino kitchen. And it turns out that culinary cultural exchange goes in both directions.
As Hispanic communities have grown and increasingly rubbed elbows with neighbors, the American Latino kitchen has changed, too, adopting more of the flavors and ingredients of other cuisines, according to Daisy
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A group of Latino community leaders is criticizing Cal State San Bernardino for the lack of Latino faculty and students in the education doctorate program.
The Latino Community Leadership Committee -- made up of university faculty, education and political leaders, including Rep. Joe Baca, D-Rialto -- formed about a year ago to address this issue.
Committee members are concerned that only one of about 50 faculty members and five of 24 students in the education doctorate program are Latino. They
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Dr. Jane L. Delgado, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation's leading Hispanic health advocacy group, released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determination that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. The announcement begins a 60-day public comment period.
"We congratulate President Obama and EPA Administrator Jackson on today's action finding that greenhouse gases pose a danger to th
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An estimated 11.9 million illegal immigrants are residing in the US, out of which 11 per cent hails from the Asian countries, a study has said.The total number of unauthorised labour immigrants is 8.3 million, which forms the part of America's 154 million strong labour force. The 5.4 per cent illegal immigrant share of the labour force in 2008 rose rapidly from 4.3 per cent in 2003, and has levelled off since 2007, the study by Pew Research Center, based on the data collected by the US Census Bu
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With his gleaming fluoride smile and billion-dollar business interests, Oscar De La Hoya is far removed from the image of grizzled Mexican road warriors who have sustained that fighting nation's fistic heritage.
The face-first fury of legends like Pipino Cuevas, Ruben Olivares and Julio Cesar Chavez created an insatiable requirement amongst Hispanic boxing supporters for blood and guts to go with their glory.
To those weaned on such uncompromising styles, De La Hoya was anathema: a fighter wh
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The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit Monday against an El Segundo investment firm, accusing its owner of operating a $23-million Ponzi scheme that targeted Latino investors from seven states.
Clelia A. Flores and her company, Maximum Return Investments Inc., attracted about 150 investors from 2006 to 2008 by offering returns of 25% a month, the lawsuit alleged.
Instead of profiting in real estate, banking, and oil, silver and gold exploration as she promised, Flores used mone
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Dr. David Hayes-Bautista set out to show that the growing Latino population, whose increase is mostly because of higher birth rates, plays a key role in balancing retiring baby boomers Tuesday evening during a University of the Pacific public forum.
"Latino babies are going to grow up and pay (Social Security) for these baby boomers," Hayes-Bautista said. "I see this is one of the best things that happened, ... so we need to invest in it."
Hayes-Bautista also challenged labels of Latinos as i
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Latino workers in California and Texas allegedly punished for speaking Spanish in their workplaces will be granted up to $450,000, free English classes and other relief under a consent decree approved this week in a class-action lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles.
The lawsuit alleged that Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. and affiliated firms, based in Orange County with facilities in six Western and Southern states, enforced an English-only rule agains
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Little pre-K access for LatinosKids behind at start of school, advocates sayBy Margaret Ramirez | Tribune reporterApril 15, 2009Bryant Cruz, 4, pauses as he tries to spell his name in Janeth Medellin's class at Casa Infantil Head Start. The class is bilingual, which providers say is key to greater access for Latino families. (Tribune photo by Jose M. Osorio / March 25, 2009)Inside Casa Infantil Head Start in Logan Square, teacher Janeth Medellin called on her students to form a circle and then s
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Learn. Lead. Create CommunityAs many of you know during the past few months our Director of Child Care, Celena Roldan has been out talking to the media about our Nationally Accredited Preschool program. Last month, she recorded an interview on Comcast Newsmakers a local news program which airs on the national cable channel CNN Headline News (also now known as HLN).Newsmakers segments run all day every day at the end of national programs. Celena’s segment on Erie will begin running today. If you
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The Sonoma County Grand Jury is embarking on a recruitment campaign to draw more Latinos and younger people to the jury.
"Basically, grand jurors are older, gray-haired people who are white, and they really do not reflect accurately the population of Sonoma County," said current jury foreman Richard Klein of Santa Rosa. "There are significant issues in Sonoma County that have to do with Hispanics and Latinos and things that have interest to younger people, and we just don't have those (jurors).
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The University approved a new Program in Latino Studies at a faculty meeting on Monday, more than 10 years after the idea was conceived. The certificate program will be launched in the 2009-10 academic year.
“Latinos offer us a way to understand social change ... and rethink the contours of race,” said sociology and Wilson School professor Marta Tienda, who will direct the program. Tienda noted that “Latinos predate formation of the American nation” and represent an increasing segment of the Am
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Hispanics made up nearly half of the more than 1 million people who became U.S. citizens last year, according to a Hispanic advocacy group.
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials said the number of Latinos who became Americans in fiscal year 2008 more than doubled over the previous year, to 461,317. That's nearly half of the record 1,046,539 new citizens overall in 2008, a 58 percent increase from 2007.
"Latinos who naturalize are eager to demonstrate their commitme
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