Alvaro Saar Rios, assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, professional writer and performer, has written a new play that characterizes Latino heritage, culture and family. The staged performance accepts the challenge of telling closely-held Latino stories.
Ethnicity and ethics are intertwined, particularly in a society where race affects socioeconomic status, education, careers, housing discrimination, health care, technology, class wealth and experiences of racism — both covert and overt.
For those who are unaware, Josephine Serrano Collier was the first Latina officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. She joined the force in 1946 despite her family's objections and her fiancé calling off their engagement.
For years King City, Calif. has been the hub of a corruption scandal that goes as far as the city's police chief, according to the "Los Angeles Times."
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.
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.
With a major winter storm hitting the Northeast, New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio kicked into full-on work-mode soon after he was sworn into office by former President Bill Clinton, who administered the oath of office at a ceremony outside City Hall on Jan. 1, 2014.
While he addressed the public about school closings and road conditions, and shoveled his own driveway in Brooklyn on his third day as mayor, he also made an effort to address the Latino community in Spanish.
Latino/a Americans require community-wide development of services made available to them, and they are in need of organizations that have a desire to push them to the forefront by sponsoring services that ensure access to quality education, economic stability and healthcare. Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), under the masterful leadership of Senior Manager for Corporate Relations Alexandra Aquino-Fike and a number of other skillful individuals, has helped to mobilize and motivate Latinos for the last 30 years, by funding and supporting more than 600 Latino organizations from coast-to-coast.
Latino American men and boys face unique challenges in the United States. Discrimination and disparities are commonplace, as well as tribulations regarding health, poverty, education and well-being.
Forty percent of the United States homeless populations are under the age of 18, and Hispanics make up 20 percent of the total homeless population. So, with approximately 640,000 homeless in a given year, that means around 51,200 Latino youths experience homelessness on a yearly basis.
