Hispanics who move to the United States are 40 percent more likely to develop certain cancers than those who remain in their native countries, according to a study from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine that was conducted in Florida, a state with a diverse Hispanic population.
Researchers speculate that one reason for the increase in cancer risk is that immigrants quickly adopt new, less healthy dietary and lifestyle habits, such as increased alcohol consumption, after moving to
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Aimed at improving the lives of Austin Latinos, FuturoFund Austin is accepting applications from nonprofits for its first grant cycle, which will invest $50,000 via grants to the local community.
Founded last year by a group of young Hispanic professionals, FuturoFund was formed to support nonprofits that assist and serve Latinos, and to provide leadership training. The fund’s giving priorities are: arts and culture, community development, education, health and human services and social justice
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Google's grants program favors nonprofits run by whites and Asians, in effect is raising ad prices for African-American and Hispanic nonprofits, a new report says.
Over the past three years, Google has given away $300 million worth of free advertising on its site, says the report from TechMission, an association of Black and Latino-led nonprofits addressing the digital divide.
That $300 million in advertising grants is used by recipient nonprofits to bid on specific search terms related to th
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Republicans U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry are walking a tightrope heading into their primary, where the winner will emerge the front-runner for the governor’s race in this decidedly red state.
On one side are Hispanic voters – a growing and influential bloc willing to listen to the GOP titans and one the candidates may need in the general election. On the other is a group that Hutchison and Perry cannot afford to anger: the Republican base of religious, largely white and c
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A legal advocacy group launched an education and awareness campaign Wednesday encouraging Latinos in 11 Midwest states to participate in the 2010 Census.
The campaign by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Chicago — including fliers in Spanish and English and door-to-door visits — is one among several advocacy groups nationwide working to ensure minorities are accurately counted.
"This is one of the most important civil rights issues," said Elisa Alfonso, a director of t
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An immigration policy group says Latinos and Asians in Colorado have a buying power of nearly $26 billion and their businesses employ more than 53,000 people.
The Washington-based Immigration Policy Center said in a report Wednesday that the Latinos and Asians, who make about 22.6 percent of Colorado's population, will be an important part of the state's economic recovery.
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The KPMG Foundation is marking the 15th anniversary of its Minority Accounting Doctoral Scholarship program by announcing today it has awarded a total of $390,000 in scholarships to 39 minority doctoral scholars for the 2009 - 2010 academic year. Of the awards, eight are to new recipients scheduled to begin their accounting doctoral program this fall, three are to new recipients who have already begun programs, and 28 are renewals of scholarships previously awarded.
Each of the scholarships is
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Edinson Volquez ate lots of fast food while working his way from the Dominican Republic to Major League Baseball, and not just because he had little money.
"In the minor leagues we always went to McDonald's, Subway," the Reds right-hander said. "You point at the number for what you want. You try to talk, but you're scared because somebody may be laughing at you."
Volquez, like most Latin Americans in the major leagues, arrived in the United States speaking little or no English. The language a
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The Latino/a population in the United States is expected to triple by 2050, according to projections from the U.S. Census Bureau. And along with that growth, says University of Illinois professor Lydia Buki, will come a rise in the number of individuals from that population who are diagnosed with cancer.
In particular, based on current statistics, Buki expects that diagnoses of breast and cervical cancers among Latinas will increase significantly. READ FULL STORYRead more…
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…
