Tu Voto Si Cuenta is the slogan for a statewide effort to get Connecticut's Latino residents who are U.S. citizens to vote.The English translation is: Your vote does count."It's a nonpartisan campaign," said Valeriano Ramos, director of constituent services for Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz and state coordinator for Tu Voto Si Cuenta. READ FULL STORYRead more…
The man who risked his career on an immigration reform bill embraced by Hispanics is struggling to win these same voters.
Cindy Florez can't always remember the name of the man who will get her vote for president, but she knows his party and that's enough.
"I will vote Democrat," the 23-year-old hotel housekeeper said, in broken English, moments after registering to vote at a John McCain campaign booth in a Latino neighborhood market.
It's an insult-to-injury moment for the Republican presidential candidate. And when it comes to McCain's relationship with Hispanic voters, it's not the first. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Latinos make up almost half of all newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases reported in Los Angeles County compared to 19 percent nationally.
-- A week of activities aimed at raising awareness and encouraging HIV counseling and testing to coincide with National Latino AIDS Awareness Day observed on October 15. READ FULL STORYRead more…
The vitriolic illegal immigration debate of the last few years has left Latinos feeling hurt and angry, according to a recent poll of both citizen and non-citizen Hispanics.
The finding isn't too surprising. It's what happens when one class of people becomes a scapegoat for a nation.
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, which polled 2,015 Hispanic adults this past summer and released the results in September: READ FULL STORYRead more…
Immigration experts are at odds on how quickly Hispanic immigrants are blending into U.S. society and whether the rate of assimilation even matters.
Some scholars say Hispanics are intently focused on work and church, but less interested in becoming U.S. citizens or voting, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Sunday.
Duke University Professor Jake Vigdor developed an index on immigrant assimilation based on such factors as education, gaining citizenship, military enlistment and English speaking ability among immigrants to the United States. The index pegged Mexico at a 13 compared to more than 40 for Vietnam, Korea and the Philippines and a 53 for Canada.
That is troubling, Vigdor told the Star-Telegram. What really distinguishes Mexican immigrants from other immigrants both past and present is that they don't make a lot of progress over time. READ FULL STORYRead more…
A new Hereford-based beef brand — Nuestro Rancho ("Our Ranch" in Spanish) — that targets Hispanic consumers was developed by the American Hereford Association and Certified Hereford Beef LLC. National Beef Packing Co. LLC is C.H.B. L.L.C.’s processing partner and Harvest Meat Co. Inc. distributes the product. READ FULL STORYRead more…
When Juan Rivera came to America as a teen in 1996, he had $5 in his pocket and a commitment to join the Navy.
“I came here to work hard and make the money and then when I have enough money to retire, go back to my hometown and help my hometown,” said Rivera, speaking of his native Dominican Republic. READ FULL STORYRead more…
When it comes to powerful Latin women, the name Frida Kahlo always comes to mind. But in addition to Kahlo, women like Rufina Amaya of El Salvador and Alfonsina Storni of Argentina also made an impact in their home countries.
"Tres Vidas" is a theatrical production based on the lives of these three women, and El Pasoans will have the opportunity to learn more about them Friday at UTEP's Magoffin Auditorium. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Nancy Roldan Johnson is raising an "army'' of young, confident and empowered Latinas, and her efforts have garnered her national attention.
Johnson was one of 80 female leaders invited to attend a workshop this summer co-sponsored by O, The Oprah Magazine and the White House Project on how to take their projects to the next level.
Johnson, a Milford resident who grew up in Bridgeport, co-founded the Latina Army, with a goal of reaching 1 million young Hispanic women, encouraging them to accomplish their dreams and goals.
More than 3,000 women entered the magazine's "Women Rule'' contest, trying to earn a spot in the leadership training program. The magazine was founded by television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey. READ FULL STORYRead more…
In 1982 a group of young professional Latinas came together with an ambitious goal.
They wanted to create an organization that would support Hispanic women, celebrate their accomplishments but also empower them to become leaders.
That's how Latinas Unidas was born.
Now their baby is turning 15.
So in typical Latina fashion, the organization is celebrating this coming of age with a quinceañera.
"We're ready to announce to the world that this little girl is all grown up," said Daisy Rivera Algarin, president of Latinas Unidas. READ FULL ARTICLERead more…
The normally expansive Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was anything but that when she was asked if the Democrats should get some of the blame for the Wall Street financial mess. Pelosi answered with a terse “no.” But Pelosi quickly got expansive when she finger pointed Bush and the Republicans for creating the mess. This is the standard Pelosi line.
Bush and the Republicans eagerly cut sweetheart deals with financial industry lobbyists to gut lending and stock trading regulations, winked and nodded at the banks and brokerage houses as they engaged in an orgy of dubious stock swapping, buys, and trading, conned millions of homeowners into taking out catastrophic sub prime loans and watered down the oversight powers of government regulatory agencies. READ FULL STORYRead more…
Efforts on the part of some conservatives to pin the Wall Street meltdown and the $850 billion rescue tab on the backs of minority homeowners are shameless and spurious, several activists and minority lawmakers said Friday.
“That is total bunk,” said Kathleen Day, spokeswoman for the Center for Responsible Lending, a public interest group. “I think this is an effort by extremists who are embarrassed that their economic model of little regulation and oversight failed miserably, so they’re trying to deflect blame to the victims.” READ FULL STORYRead more…
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday said Latinos and African Americans must "face up to" existing racial strains over jobs, language differences and violent crime by addressing the underlying causes of those tensions, primarily poverty and the lack of opportunity. READ FULL STORYRead more…
It’s not often that a documentary makes the case for its own spuriousness, but in a sense that’s what “Latinos ’08” eventually does. That may sound like a criticism, but it’s intended as a compliment: this zippy little film about the Hispanic vote in the current American presidential election isn’t afraid to turn conventional wisdom on its head, including the conventional wisdom that there is even such a thing as a Hispanic vote. READ FULL STORYRead more…
A new survey confirms that the outcome in some of those battleground states may be decided by Latino voters turning out in record numbers. READ FULL STORYRead more…
When democratic operative Paul Begala made a donation to the Obama campaign this year, he wrote in the memo field of the check "for negative campaigning only." As much as candidates and voters complain about negative ads, the ads persist because, as Begala knows, they work.READ FULL STORYRead more…
Although minorities have made tremendous strides in many other fields, African-Americans and Latinos make up only 1.7 to 1.8 percent of professional American orchestras. Rather than wringing its hands over the situation, the Sphinx Organization is addressing the problem directly. READ FULL STORYRead more…
With regard to the recent controversy over Fernando C de Baca's racist comments on Hispanics not supporting an African-American person for president, it is obvious that C de Baca considers himself a white Hispanic and appears to be making the assumption that all Hispanics in New Mexico are white as well. READ FULL STORYRead more…
The city council voted down the English-only proposal Monday night. More than 120 people packed City Hall for the vote.
The crowd was divided on two controversial proposals on the table.
One sought to make English the official language of Lewisville. The other was aimed at banning bilingual city documents, except those required by state and federal low. The council looked at eliminating translations for 20 documents that were considered non-essential to life and health. READ FULL STORYRead more…
A former PTA president and mother of four, Josephine Mercado had a full-time career as an attorney in New York City, working first for the city government and then for a private firm that took on civil lawsuits. But she gave up the courtroom and what could have been a lucrative career to become a community organizer -- focusing from the beginning on health issues that affected Hispanics. READ FULL STORYRead more…
