Months prior to her death, Garcia filed a police report explaining to the authorities that she feared for her life; and months later she would make a similar phone call. She reiterated details about her violent home life in her native Spanish, but because the domestic-incident report was never translated to English it was overlooked.
Research compared the percentage of Latinos and Blacks in private and public prisons in nine states. Each state, at different percentages, had higher rates of people of color residing in private facilities than public facilities. Inmates released from private prisons experienced recidivism at an average rate three percent higher than public prisons.
The non-partisan coalition tasked with encouraging Latino civic engagement and drawing millennial voters to the polls, Voto Latino, just turned 10-years-old.
As a judge Sonia Sotomayor takes her personal history and her community into account, using that to remind her that human beings consist of good and bad, horrific and heroic; and she treats individuals in her court as people while holding them responsible for their crimes.
By 2043, the ethno-racial landscape of America will completely change, and whites will dwindle to the minority in the US, which explains a level of discontent from other groups and the present white majority. The country's demographic changes show an evidential growth of Latinos, and that has resulted in the growth of anti-Latino hate crimes.
The soul of the Latino community rests in its ability to share resources and display an inventiveness that allows it to flourish. The collaborative and communal mentality of Latinos shines when people make contributions to commendable causes that help to fuel innovation, strengthen the youth, and embolden the community at large.
"Legitimo" nearly says it all...a Spanish word that means legitimate in English. The smartphone app, that employs the word, is a tool that manages to create legitimate contracts that act to safeguard those involved in domestic services, such as painting, cleaning, and minor home remodeling, and more.
“Just sound it out” is a strategy that’s been long employed in the United States when coaching children in elementary education through reading sessions. However, this process does not translate to Spanish. Stanford University produced a new study that suggests that learning to read words in English isn’t the same as how Spanish-speakers learn to read words in Spanish, particularly in Mexico.
Before being taken by Venezuelan government, López stood beside a raised statue of Cuban independence hero Jose Martim while holding a Venezuelan flag, and gave a rousing speech to 5,000 of his supporters.
Political parties' inability to secure a sufficient number of Latino candidates disallows the possibility that Latinos will be placed in political office, according to a study released by Michigan State University.
California has numerous boasting points: they have lower property tax rates than Texas, Californians tend to be healthier, and the Golden State Is the second best place in the nation for women to achieve economic security -unless you're Latina.
The Hispanic customer base is “on the margins of the banking system” and they are often left dissatisfied when seeking financial services from financial institutions.
LatinasRepresent, a collaborative effort between Political Parity–whose goal is to boost the number of women in the upper levels of government–and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, hopes to embolden Latinas to serve as political representatives.
New York City residents will receive municipal ID cards, according to a recent statement made by New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio in his State of the City speech. The IDs will act as a tool to help undocumented New Yorkers who don't want to “live their lives in the shadows.”
Barriers obstructing young Latinos’ path when seeking higher education are being bulldozed by young Latinos’ desire to succeed, and growing access to funds set aside for the Latino students who intend to attend college
Latino “think tanks” don’t only make it possible to access periodicals related to Latinos, they empower Latinos by keeping them informed about technology, culture, economics, politics, and social policies.
The American Dream promises a number of things, one of those things being a home …accented with an optional white picket fence. However, less than half of Hispanics in America have been able to seize that portion of the “Dream,” due greatly to the fact that minorities are more likely to be denied loans and they are less likely to apply for conventional mortgages for the same reason.
By and large, Latino Americans are Catholic; a majority of the 52 million Hispanics living in the United States belong to the Catholic Church. However, Cathedrals are emptying, and former occupants have taken to worshiping in mosques.
New York commuter and Chilean artist Maria Luisa Portuondo Vila believes that she saw the man of her dreams on her way home, and she's elected the whole city of New York to help her reconnect with him.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) published a report Growing Up LGBT in America, which slightly challenges findings that state that Latinos are accepting of the LGBT community.
Romeo and Juliet, and Tristan and Isolde are accessible (fictional) examples that may come to mind, but the history books –and succeeding web pages– are lush with examples of Latin couples who’ve affected history by being revolutionary, dynamic, passionate, and/or the talk-of-the-time.
Many republicans suggest tabling reform until next year because it will not benefit them in the 2014 elections; as many House Republicans reside over white-majority districts.
Boehner’s own party responded to his proposal with displeasure –and the plan has deeply divided the House’s 218 Republicans, who’ve failed to unify over a strategy. Mixed reception is perhaps why Boehner is reluctant to press ahead.
