Lumping by ethnicity leaves many untreated
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 01:00
Most Americans with depression go untreated. ...
Blacks and Hispanics still the losers in health care reform
Wed, 12/30/2009 - 01:00
Blacks and Hispanics have the most to gain from real reform. ...
3 Police Officers Indicted In Race-Related Beating
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 11:29
According to CNN, five people, including three police officers, have been indicted in the fatal race-related beating of a Latino man in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
"The evidence suggests that Mr. Ramirez was targeted, beaten ...
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Latino DJ on mixing cultures
Tue, 10/20/2009 - 10:25
Radio personality Bobbito says it's perfectly fine for ...
Tue, 10/20/2009 - 10:25
Radio personality Bobbito says it's perfectly fine for ...
Study: U.S. Hispanics Lag In Health Insurance
Fri, 09/25/2009 - 13:11
Six out of 10 U.S. Hispanic illegal immigrants lack health insurance, more than twice the rate for legal Latino residents and citizens and three times the average for the population as a whole, a study released on Friday showed.
The survey by the Pew Hispanic Center, which drew on a nationally representative sample of 4,013 U.S. Latinos in 2007, found 60 percent of adult Hispanic illegal migrants lacked health insurance. ( ...
Black, Latino Tensions Blamed For Prison Riot
Mon, 08/10/2009 - 11:57
State officials said Monday that a riot at a Chino, Calif. prison which left people injured and a dormitory burned was the result of racial tensions between Black and Latino prisoners. Officials announced that 1,100 inmates were being moved to other facilities after the riot.
Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the ...
Latinos will control urban programming
07/14/2009
by eharris
It doesn't work the other way, though.
Hollywood producers know that black-oriented programming will pull in a large number of Hispanics, but Hispanic projects cannot expect black support. Until now, this has hurt the number of Hispanic-oriented films and projects produced, but that could change soon as the number of blacks and Hispanics in this country shift.
Housing crisis erases wealth of blacks, Latinos
Wed, 06/24/2009 - 00:00
After the largest growth in home ownership in history during the last 15 years, blacks and Latinos are now suffering their largest loss in wealth in modern history. And that erosion of wealth could lead to a second collapse in the national economy within a year. ...
Sotomayor: The Rosa Parks of a new movement
Sun, 06/14/2009 - 00:00
If immigration reform was the catalyst for a Hispanic Civil Rights Movement, Sonia Sotomayor may be the accelerant that changes the course of history and ruins the GOP's political futures, just like Rosa Parks helped ignite the black Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s South. ...
Sonia Sotomayor's Latina perspective
Tue, 06/02/2009 - 00:00
Why is it OK to say Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's choice to become the next Supreme Court associate justice, relates too well to Latinos and immigrant families to make fair judgments? We'd never think it acceptable to say a judge is too male or too white to make sound decisions in cases about women or minorities. ...
