While conversations about social, educational and economic status of Latinas regularly mark the front of newspapers, talks about mental and emotional health aren't visited with the same regularity. Depression and suicide rates have increased for young Hispanic women. Also, Latinas are less likely to receive mental health support than White women or African American women, but one effective way for Latinas to address mental health challenges in their lives is for them to find their voices.
Millennials are on target to be the most educated group in U.S. history, chiefly due to educational advancements among diverse populations and U.S. women. Also, multicultural students are swarming early age classrooms, despite failures to properly integrate students of different races and ethnicities.
Junot Díaz, Julia Alvarez, Isabel Allende, Sandra Cisneros and quite a few others are exceptions to the unwritten, well-practiced rule that Latinos can't penetrate the mainstream publishing industry. Nonetheless, some Latino authors are tired of fighting the good fight, and they've opted instead to pursue self-publishing.
Estofado de Champiñones, Yucca Causa with Chipotle, Radish Salsa Criolla and Ajíes Rellenos de Choclo are just some of the stunning, tantalizing and homey Peruvian dishes mother-daughter chefs, authors and bloggers, Morena Cuadra and Morena Escardo, regularly showcase on their extraordinary website, Peru Delights.
Psoriasis Awareness Month is an opportunity to spread understanding about the chronic, serious long-term skin problem that affects millions in the U.S.
While there is widespread agreement that race relations in the U.S. are in a sorry state, but racial division exists regarding race relations' contribution to police violence. Multicultural groups in the U.S. are far more skeptical than whites about law enforcement's efforts to control crime. Also, Democrats are more disposed to mistrust law enforcement.
New York Times Bestselling Author Pam Muñoz Ryan has penned more than 25 phenomenal books, including "Esperanza Rising," "Becoming Naomi Leon" and "Echo." The incomparable author has been putting her pen to work for over 20 years, and she still has plenty of magical, edifying and charming tales to tell.
The season of the sun provokes culinary artists to prepare everything from sizzling barbeque to decadent desserts to refreshing salads. Latino cooks, in particular, love to get busy in the kitchen during the summertime, making dishes you'll absolutely want to add to your summer bucket list.
The undocumented immigrant population has been stable since the start of the Great Recession, shifting longstanding trends related to the undocumented population, particularly among undocumented Mexicans, who once represented about half of undocumented immigrant.
Habitual consumers of salt and individuals who gradually increase the amount of salt they eat both face heightened risk of developing high blood pressure, as stated by a study featured in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The study confirms the need to maintain a low-salt diet over a lifetime.
The thriving U.S. Hispanic population is earning more and gaining influences amid the mainstream, but home ownership for the community has dipped. Could this be due to cultural spending habits and an aversion to acquiring credit?
Reyna Grande, author of the critically acclaimed memoir "The Distance Between Us," endured a desolate and deprived early life, filled with abandonment. But decades later, the award-winning author has used her story as a tool to transform her life.
Ensuring a healthy future for infants, preteens, adults and the elderly is a matter of receiving timely vaccinations, to protect the population against dangerous and sometimes deadly diseases and viruses, such as the flu, measles and pneumonia.
Women have long been subjected to wage inequalities, but Hispanic women, particularly low-earning Hispanic women, face the largest pay inequalities in the state of Massachusetts, according to a new report.
The allure of private Ivy League universities are as time-honored as the institutions themselves. Nonetheless, multicultural high school seniors are less likely to pursue education at Ivy's and more likely to stick to safety schools.
Thousands of warehouse workers in Southern California's Inland Empire typically earn less than a living wage. Also, most don't have health care benefits and many hold temporary positions, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside.
President Barack Obama has called higher education "one of the crown jewels of this country." However, U.S. students have garnered more than $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, and 83 percent of that debt, or $1 trillion, stems from federal student loans. This has had a deep impact on millennials and the economy.
More than half of young Catholic families (53 percent) identify themselves as Latino or Hispanic compared with 32 percent of all Catholics, according to a recent survey. Could the presence of Hispanic families in the Catholic Church indicate Latino congregational growth, or at least the slowing of a once-persistent decline?
El Museo del Barrio, a gem located in the heart of East Harlem, has opened its doors to the city with a summer lineup featuring exhibits "Rodriguez Calero: Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos," "Cut N' Mix: Contemporary Collage" and "Presente! The Young Lords in New York."
Hispanic homebuyers are ready to move the housing market, according to a new report. More than half of Hispanic homebuyers are comfortable with making a down payment of 20 percent or more on an affordable new home. Additionally, most Hispanics plan to buy their first home within the next five years.
The booming back-to-school retail market is only preceded by the holiday market in terms of spending. "Back to school," "school supplies," "school shopping," and "back to school sales" were the top search terms in 2013, and 27 percent of businesses launched back-to-school marketing activities as early as May of that year to preemptively meet the needs of their evolving customer base.
Skin cancer doesn't care about skin color, not matter what popular opinions about skin cancer may be. In fact, over the past twenty years, melanoma diagnoses have increased by 20 percent among U.S. Latinos.
Maria Hinojosa, award-winning journalist and executive producer for NPR's "Latino USA," presented a TEDx talk at the first-ever TEDxPennsylvaniaAvenue event.
Brando Skyhorse, author of acclaimed works "The Madonnas of Echo Park" and "Take This Man," has a great deal to say about passing, fiction and capturing one's own story. Armed with an original voice and a layered history involving the catch and release of identities, he has an interesting story to tell.
