Wealth Gap Among Races Has Widened Since Recession
Wealth Gap Among Races Has Widened Since Recession
By Annie Lowrey, New York Times WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans suffered a loss of wealth during the recession and the sluggish recovery that followed. But the last half-decade has […]
Latino Fertility Just Might Mean Economic Vitality
By O. Ricardo Pimentel, San Antonio Express News Some highlights of a nuanced talk in San Antonio recently on Hispanic demography by Emilio Parrado of the University of Pennsylvania: The Hispanic fertility rate […]
Latino Children Tragically Boom in Foster Care
By Toni Castro, Voxxi A historic number of Hispanic children are in the country’s foster care system, a dramatic change brought on by immigration and the assimilation of a growing […]
Mainstream Media Getting It: Latino Immigrants Are Immigrating
By Ian Reifowitz, Huffington Post You may be familiar with Samuel Huntington. He’s the political scientist who, in his last years, offered dire warnings that Hispanic and especially Mexican immigrants behave profoundly differently than […]
Letter From Mom of Sandy Hook Victim, On Daughter’s Birthday
By Adrian Carrasquillo, NBCLatino Ana Grace Marquez-Green, the little girl who loved to sing and dance, and was killed in a brutal school shooting at Sandy Hook elementary, was remembered by her mother […]
Latina Teens Second Birth Likely Despite Knowing Prevention
By LatinaLista The first time a teenage girl gets pregnant it can truthfully be called an accident but a second, third or fourth time? A new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control […]
The Wonders of Promoting School Involvement From Spanish Speaking Parents
By Esther J. Cepeda, NBCLatino CHICAGO — Something bordering on the miraculous happened at my community high school the other night: The parents who speak only Spanish were included and […]
Cuéntame An Honest Conversation
By Cuéntame An Honest Conversation is a sober, honest, and often painful short documentary featuring story vignettes from LGBTQ Latino youth, their friends, families, and the community in general. This […]
Latinos Increasingly in Favor of Gay Marriage
By Sandra Lilley, NBCLatino When it comes to gay marriage and Latino public opinion, the last few years have seen dramatic changes, according to Ingrid Duran. She and her partner, Catherine Pino, are one […]
Hablan Español? Do your kids speak Spanish?
By Claudia Sermeno, Being Latino That is a question that we as Latino Americans are used to asking of representatives of educational, community, political, service and other societal entities. But […]
