While everyone reserves the right to choose their own labeling, the tension that exists between " identity and reality can be incredibly detrimental to the Latino community," in fact it could be lethal, because men who frequently have sex with other men but reject a homosexual identity, often engage in unsafe risky sex practices.
While his presidency has often been described as post-racial, events have sometimes occurred that forced President Barack Obama to speak directly on race, with varying degrees of elegance and success. On Thursday, however, Obama purposefully announced an intensely personal initiative he called "My Brother's Keeper."
Hordes of Sinaloa citizens took to the streets in different municipalities, clad in white; arriving at a temple known as La Lomita in Culiacan to demand that billionaire Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman be released from prison. Univision.com reported
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently publicized that Republicans were not likely to touch immigration reform this year, despite bipartisan promises made and mounting outrage from Immigration Reform protesters.
Super Bowl XLIX is meant to kick off in 339 days during February 2015, at the University Of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. But, the state of Arizona could have fumbled, and foiled those plans. A controversial and conservative bill could have resulted in the Super Bowl being moved from the state for the second time in recent history.
When you are considered "the biggest drug lord of all time" and make Forbes' top billionaires list, you pretty much always get what you want through power and corruption -- even when it comes to matters of the heart.
Fernández-Armesto drafted the book with the intention of filling in gaps, integrating Latin history and American History, and providing a prospective that would "go beyond the traditional, from east to west, sea-to-shining-sea narrative."
Stanford and UC Berkeley joined forces with UC Los Angeles and the California Institute of Technology, forming the California Alliance for Education and Professoriate (CAEP). In partnership, the institutions, intend to tackle minority under-representation in math and science Ph.D. programs, and in faculty positions.
Puerto Rico’s economic crisis features a shrinking economy and a declining population, with 15 percent unemployment rate to boot. In laymen’s terms, things aren’t looking too good for the high income economy territory with the poverty rate of 41%.
Guzman was arrested on Saturday, February 22, 2014, without gunfire being exchanged –despite having a military-style assault rifle on his person. Guzman did not speak, and looked subdued as he made his first public appearance in years, then quickly vanished into the cargo bay of a helicopter waiting to take him to prison.
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.
Many Latinos have a strong sense of faith and a belief in the power of prayer, so when it came time to kick off the Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music Awards last night in Miami, presenters, performers and the audience channeled their love and support towards the people of Venezuela.
The non-partisan coalition tasked with encouraging Latino civic engagement and drawing millennial voters to the polls, Voto Latino, just turned 10-years-old.
It's never too late to right your wrongs - even if it's something that occurred five centuries ago. And in Spain's case it was in 1492 during one of it's "darkest chapters in Spanish history."
Spain has launched an initiative that would offer citizenship to Sephardic Jews as a gesture of conciliation for Spain's expulsion of Jews during the Inquisition, which has in turn sparked a lot of interest from Israel.
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.
Miss Turismo 2013 Genesis Carmona, who was shot in the head on Feb. 18 during anti-government protests in Valencia, Venezuela, is the latest fatality that has brought the death toll to five in a just a week.
