Women's health groups in Mexico City are launching campaigns to help normalize breastfeeding for mothers. However, the initiative utilized distasteful posters, featuring toned and topless female celebrities with a banner censoring their bare breasts, which reads "No les des la espalda, dale pecho," — "Don't turn your back on them, give them your breast."
Negrita, the Spanish term from which the documentary gains its title, means little black girl, and the expression has both has positive and negative connotations. Numerous women featured in the preliminary footage stated that the word can be used offensively; but, generally, the word is used with cariño or affection.
The father of 20-year-old Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, who was killed by Elliot Rodger in a local deli, blamed the National Rifle Association and "craven politicians" for the death of his son. Many Latinos say they feel similarly.
Throwing a no hitter is one of the greatest achievements for a pitcher. Multiple Latin American born pitchers have thrown the no hitter from various countries.
According to a study released in the Health Affairs journal by University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Latino senior citizens are 35 percent less likely to have prescription drug coverage than white citizens.
Latinos love mobile. That's been the message of various studies and surveys throughout the recent past, and this week PricewaterhouseCoopers added its own research into the chorus.
Spanish-language Latina Hope classes are equipping Hispanic women in South Texas with the necessary tools required to launch their own craft businesses, also helping those with pre-existing craft businesses to function more professionally.
Less than half of undocumented youth living in the United States identify with the Democratic Party, while most of the others claim loyalty to independent parties or nonparty affiliations, according to a new study published earlier this week.
Executive compensation at top-tier public research universities increased 14 percent, between 2009 and 2012, and increased by a third for presidents, equaling a bump to nearly $1,000,000 in annual compensation. The ballooning of salaries for presidents at the top 25 highest-paid public-research university has coincided with student debt growth and faculty disenfranchisement for the last number of years.
March 31 has come and gone, and the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period has concluded. Now there are 8 million newly insured individuals, many of whom are confused about what this means for them.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, the international restaurant chain which serves up customized burritos and tacos in an assembly line-fashion, launched an initiative meant to give customers a brief, literary experience by printing short stories on its bags and cups. "Cultivating Thoughts" features writers such as Toni Morrison, Sarah Silverman, Jonathan Safran Foer and George Saunder. But noticeably missing from its lineup are Mexican-American and Latin American writers.
At 50 million and counting, the Hispanic population has become the largest ethnic group in the nation. The multiracial group hosts a collection of subgroups who claim a number of identities, and, increasingly, more and more of its individuals are identifying as white, according to a new study of census forms.
Northern Honduras: in the fertile and lush Bajo Aguán region, there has been continuous violence, uninvestigated corruption and brazen lawlessness since 2009. The violence can be traced back to the agrarian law enacted in 1992, which allowed for the sale of large tracts of land that previously could only be owned collectively. The government's decision to change the law sparked questions of land sale legality and provoked unforeseen violence.
The fact that low-income students continue to face an uphill battle, as the rest of the nation's students flourish, is obvious to Bill Admans, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Minds Matter, a tutoring and mentoring nonprofit. In a conversation with Latin Post, Admans talked about the status of low-income students and the ways Minds Matter has worked to improve conditions for them on a local and national level.
The Supreme Court decision Brown v. Boad of Education of Topeka paved the way for school integration. Now, 60 years later, a new report assesses the status of school segregation in America and explores the transformation of the nation's school population since the civil rights era.
In the United States, it's illegal for children under 18 to buy cigarettes. But it's permissible for those very same children to be a part of the cultivation and harvesting of tobacco, which produces side effects far worse than if they'd simply taken a puff.
