The Center For Popular Democracy Action and the City of Newburgh, NY sued the Census Bureau and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in federal court, claiming their 2020 Census plans sharply reduce resources for counting black, Latino and other communities that the Census Bureau calls “hard to count.”
Read moreA Latino man’s claims relating to his detention by Customs and Border Protection officers at a bus station may continue, a federal court in Washington ruled. The government may be liable under the state’s anti-discrimination law because the acts of the officers caused the man to be “treated as not welcome, accepted, desired, or solicited” based on his race.
Read moreThree Colombian nationals residing in Los Angeles were arraigned Monday on federal grand jury charges of defrauding elderly Hispanic women in a scam that sought payments from victims in order to cash purported winning lottery tickets.
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A 61-year-old white Milwaukee man accused of throwing acid on a Latino U.S. citizen’s face will be charged with a hate crime, increasing the sentence he may receive if convicted, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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A court-appointed investigator concluded that high-ranking managers for former metro Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio disregarded a federal judge’s order for Arpaio to halt immigration sweeps targeting Latinos, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Read moreJosé Diaz sued Target Corp. for discrimination in federal court, claiming he was told he should put Jonathan instead of José on his nametag, because his given name would scare customers at the upscale white neighborhood in Freeport, N.Y.
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The Seventh Circuit revived a class action against Ford that claims the hiring process at its Chicago plant discriminates against Latino workers.
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Evidence supports a rival candidate’s claim that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan planted sham candidates on the ballot to dilute the Latino vote in his district, a federal judge ruled, but voters were aware of his conduct and voted for him anyway.
Read moreA naturalized U.S. citizen claims in a federal complaint that the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office jailed him for three days because of his Latino last name and falsely classified him as an out-of-state fugitive, though it had in its possession his U.S. passport, Social Security card and certificate of naturalization.
Read moreActresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and an immigration raid in Mississippi.
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When Albuquerque’s poet laureate arrived at an art show featuring Mexican-American women, the first thing she did was scan the room. Two exits. One security guard. If a shooter bursts in, she thought, how do my husband and I get out of here alive?
Read moreFor the first time in years, the number of births to immigrant American women of Hispanic descent declined, from 58% in 2000 to 50% in 2018 according to Pew research.
Read moreJoining some 20,000 members of the nationwide Latino community, four Democratic presidential hopefuls participated in a town hall forum Thursday at a convention held by the country’s oldest Latino civil rights organization at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee.
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Defeating the Democratic Party machine, defense attorney Tiffany Cabán landed one step closer Tuesday to fundamentally reshaping criminal justice in Queens. The insurgent candidate for district attorney wants to end the drug war and decriminalize sex work in a borough known for the harsh prosecution of petty crimes.
Read moreReviving fair-housing claims, the 11th Circuit ruled that Miami plausibly alleged Wells Fargo’s discriminatory mortgage-lending practices injured the tax base, resulting in “a disproportionate and excessive number of defaults by black and Latino homebuyers.”
Read moreThe percentage of U.S. adults who belong to a church or other religious institution has plunged by 20 percentage points over the past two decades, hitting a low of 50% last year, according to a new Gallup poll. Among major demographic groups, the biggest drops were recorded among Democrats and Hispanics.
Read moreIn a packed high school auditorium, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti presented a set of lofty goals for the city that includes forging a green economy, combating climate change and ending homelessness.
Read morePointing to the unambiguous intent of New Jersey laws to promote voting, rather than restrict it, an appeals court ruled Monday that ballots must be printed in English and Spanish.
Read moreIn the decade since the Great Recession, the income of Latino workers has not bounced back as fast as other ethnic groups largely because of a weaker recovery for those born in the United States.
Read moreBorder agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press that reveal some inner workings of a top government priority to address the burgeoning number of Central Americans arriving in the country.
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