The violation of low-income or vulnerable citizens during arrests and stops is just a part of the greater contempt for Latinos and people of color. The investigation that's pending, regarding the county's treatment of Latinos, presently fails to take the thefts into account.
Latinos aren't signing up for the Affordable Care Act's healthcare marketplaces in droves, as President Obama's administration expected. Now a Hispanic market research firm in California says it has the reason why: the marketing was all wrong.
State Sen. Steve Gallardo (D-Phoenix) openly disclosed that he was gay, just a week after the veto of Senate Bill 1062, a bill that would have disabled LGBT rights in Arizona if it had been signed into law. Still feeling the after-burn of the proposed bill, which gained protests from civil-rights backers, business leaders, and clergymen, Gallardo decided to publicly voice his sexual orientation.
The self-proclaimed "Champion in Chief," President Obama, pledged to legal immigrants that they should not be discouraged to sign up, and enrollment would not put their undocumented family members at risk. That said in spite of the Obama administration's stunning deportation record.
President Obama will provide specific information about how the new healthcare law will affect Latinos in a nationally televiseid press conference at 11:30 on Thursday.
Seattle Mariners' Robinson Cano, who recently signed a 10-year, $240 million contract this offseason, believes that the Mariners need more of an offensive strike, though the team already boasts two of baseball's choice talents, Cano and Felix Hernandez.
The Women, Infants and Children program, better known as WIC, has just expanded its food choices -- and for the first time in 34 years, fresh, frozen and canned vegetable has been added, as well as yogurt and tofu.
Fine points regarding Latino health has been revealed in multiple studies over the last number of years, and the public has become privy to information regarding conditions and diseases that most affect the Latino community.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of the late socialist leader and political trailblazer Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer at age 58.
In the aftermath of Chavez's reign and amid this tumultuous time of political unrest in Venezuela, many are reflecting on the past, praying for peace and economic stability and mourning the loss of 18 anti-government protesters. This has left the country in a deflated state of bewilderment, sadness and anxiousness as to what the next chapter will bring.
Reuters reported that government leaders urged Venezuelans to skip protests in lieu of traditional trips to the beach during the Carnival holiday. Venezuelan television was apparently filled with descriptions of young people sitting beachside, celebrating in honor of the holiday, despite protests in the streets.
SB1070 is a legislative act in Arizona, which at the time of passage was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in recent U.S. history. The senate bill has prompted immigration-status checks, and it has received national and international attention and prompted considerable controversy.
Arizona Republican State Representative John Kavanagh, one of the foremost defenders of Senate Bill 1062, spoke at a roast for Phoenix's controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Rep. Kavanagh two weekends ago, where he delivered a series of remarks that set off a firestorm in the Latino community.
In a conversation about blackness and being Panamanian, Anthony Palanco's grandmother spoke about her mother, who had fair skin, and her father's dark skin and features that's traditionally associated with blackness.
What draws you to eat a particular burrito? Taste, quality or price -- or all of the above? And if you are paying more, are you truly getting better quality or are you just getting wrapped up in the claims and flashy advertising?
One farmer gave mega-burrito giant Chipotle a piece of his mind on the depictions of farmers, the origins of its food and challenged the company to change its ways.
Panamanian Anthony Palanco author of Verses from the Diaspora: A Poetic Tale of the African Diaspora sat down with Latin Post and spoke about his mixed Panamanian roots, his upbringing in the United States of as a Spanish-speaking Latino with a dark complexion, and Panama's gaParze when it comes to skin politics.
"(1) Drop: Shifting The Lens On Race," a project headed researcher Dr. Yaba Blay and photographer Noelle Théard, examined culture, ethnicity and attitude about race and questioned the perspectives of 58 people who identified as being some degree of "Black."
In 2012, sales of skin lightening creams in India alone totaled 258 tons, and the global market for skin lighteners is projected to reach US $19.8 billion by 2018 based on sales growth primarily in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, according to Andrew McDougall of CosmeticsDesign-Asia.com. Many of these skin-whitening products use active ingredients (such as mercurous chloride) and hydroquinone, which can be harmful. In fact, hydroquinone is banned in Europe; and skin lightening creams available in Nigeria has caused mutations in bacteria, proved to be possibly carcinogenic.
The application of melanin-concentrated chemical creams that strips away color, and otherwise whitens, lightens, brightens or bleaches skin is a emerging process that's often marketed to remove blemishes or abnormally high pigmentation such as birthmarks and moles, but historically and continuously, these creams are used for the overall whitening of dark skin tones in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, South America, and even in the United States. The desire to eradicate "unflattering" parts of one's lineage begins with altering one's skin color for many dark-skinned men and women.
