Promising to rebuild the economy tattered by the coronavirus pandemic, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a series of stops in South Florida on Monday as the race for the White House heads into the final month.
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MIAMI (CN) — Vying to energize Latino voters in the country’s biggest bellwether state, two political action committees steered by
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For much of the 20th century, Latino students in the tiny Texas borderlands town of Marfa – like many of their peers across the Southwest – were not allowed to go to the same school as white children.
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A study published Wednesday reveals members of the Latino community who are exposed to toxic pollutants at work are more likely to develop heart abnormalities — findings that help fill the cardiovascular research gap for this underrepresented group.
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Hispanics make up less than a quarter of Utah’s workforce but accounted for 73% of workplace outbreaks of Covid-19, according to research published Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Congressional Democrats from Texas on Wednesday urged the state’s Republican governor to give local officials the flexibility to issue stay-at-home orders, citing the coronavirus pandemic’s growing toll on the South Texas border area in particular and its disproportionate impact on Latino communities.
Read moreMiami sued Miami-Dade County in state court for its “refusal to provide for adequate early voting sites in the city’s predominantly Hispanic-American neighborhoods.”
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The Spanish-language ads for Joe Biden used the same slogan to contrast him with President Trump — “los cuentos no pagan las cuentas” — “telling stories won’t pay the bills.”
Read moreFamilias Unidas Por La Educación sued El Paso Independent School District in federal court, claiming it closed three elementary schools Latino neighborhoods, put no bond money toward facilities in these neighborhoods but put all of it into whiter neighborhoods’ schools.
Read moreA South Texas man was charged and arraigned Saturday with revving a chainsaw and shouting racial slurs at people protesting police brutality and the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Read moreA federal class action claims that JPMorgan Chase Bank assigns Latino loan officers to branches whose clients lack the income and credit scores needed to qualify for loans but holds them to the same standards as employees at more affluent branches.
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The message from the third day of the Texas Democratic Party’s virtual convention was clear: Victories in the Lone Star State and the White House hinge on activating the black and Latino vote, which represents a growing swath of registered voters who historically don’t vote at high numbers.
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An Iowa woman accused of attempted murder for allegedly ramming her car into two minority youths on purpose is competent to stand trial, a state judge ruled.
Read moreThe Georgia Association Of Latino Elected Officials, et al., sued Georgia and Gwinnett County in federal court for mailing English-only mail-in ballot applications to residents of Gwinnett County (which has more than 202,000 Latino residents) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreEnraquita Lopez, M.D., sued the Medical Board of California for disciplining her for using the “fictitious” name Quita — the name she goes by — instead of her full name, a practice she says is no different from a doctor named Robert calling himself Bob, in Fresno County Court.
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In Joe Biden’s pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, he’s run repeatedly into a wall in the West, where Bernie Sanders’ strength among Latinos propelled his campaign even as he struggled with other groups.
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An accent mark of the official seal of the capital city of the nation’s most Hispanic state is in the wrong spot.
Read moreA day out from the critical Super Tuesday contest, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren rallied supporters in Los Angeles around labor and immigrant rights and hailed her campaign as progressive voters’ best chance to take back the White House.
Read moreSix employees sued The Home Depot for harassment and discrimination, claiming they were told repeatedly not to speak Spanish at work, in Monmouth County, N.J. Superior Court.
Read moreA federal court in New York ruled that a Mexican immigrant may pursue his false arrest and Equal Protection claims against police officers who arrested him during a traffic stop. The immigrant was a passenger in the stopped vehicle, and at the time of the arrest, none of the officers had any evidence of the plaintiff’s immigration status, they only knew that he primarily spoke Spanish and “appeared Hispanic.”
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