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Chris Pe�a as the new assistant news director at NBC 5 Chicago to the community. The reception was held at the National Latino Education Institute, 2011 W...Pe�a is the only Latino in a high-ranking management position in the nation�s third largest television...
Tags: Chicago, Latino, George Lopez, NBC, NBC Universal, Rockefeller Center
Oxford House and DePaul University are teaming up to conduct a study that focuses on Latinos who have a history of substance abuse and are trying to get their lives back on track. �[We�re going to] invite Latino men and women, who come out of treatment...
Tags: Oxford Houses, Dr. Richard Contreras, Latinos, Spain, Madrid, Oxford House, Latino, Drug rehabilitation, Settlement houses, DePaul University
Breaking Barriers,� a half-hour special profiling five �Latina power brokers,� women who are among the most influential policy makers and business leaders in the country. Beat� will air June 27 at 6 p.m. with an encore presentation on July 5 at 11:30...
Tags: Chicago United, Chicago-Kent College of Law, ABC, Chicago, Latina, Loyola University Chicago, Latino
Chicago welcomed the third annual Latino Fashion Week.
Tags: Latino Fashion Week, Latino, fashion, designers, models
A couple of developments erupted this week to let us know Hispanics have not quite earned full acknowledgement of such oddball concepts as civil rights and basic dignity. First, in New Mexico, a hotel owner informed his Hispanic workers that, henceforth,...
Tags: latino, hispanic, Larry Whitten, New Mexico, hotel owners, language, Dallas, traffic ticket, Spanish
Larry Whitten is a hotel owner. In fact he is known as a person that buys hotels that aren’t as successful and then turns them around. Larry Whitten doesn’t want ethnic sounding names to be used when his employees are at work. He...
First thing this morning, I noticed an intimidating fellow staring at me from my computer screen. Yes, it was the infamous “illegal alien” costume that got many immigrant-rights groups up in arms. For those who can't get enough...
Tags: latino, hispanic, Halloween, illegal alien costume
It was a genuine for-sale-to-the-public Halloween costume with an alien head, a green card and an orange prisonlike jump suit stamped with the words "Illegal Alien." For many people it was so offensive, they marched straight to Facebook, Twitter, and...
Tags: halloween, latino, illegal alien, green card
Pregnant Latino women smoke and drink less than pregnant white and African American women, Latino newborns have lower infant mortality rates, and the cognitive skill of infants 9 to 15 months are about equal for white and Latino children.
Tags: cognitive skills, Latino
It seems that in Arizona, the “Toughest Sheriff in America” has overstepped his bounds. The man with this unimaginative nickname (one that seems self-generated) is Joe Arpaio, who is the law in Maricopa County – and don’t...
Tags: illegal immigration, Joe Arpaio, latino, hispanic, Homeland Security, Arizona