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Posted on: April 28th, 2008
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Northern Virginia Hit With Cost Of School Migration - Pr. William Policies Drive Immigrants To Inner Suburbs

Director of Chicago’s Latino Union gains respect of day laborers, groups formed to help them - Jessica Aranda

New study builds on old one to track Mexican American progress - After finding questionnaires from a 1965 survey in a UCLA basement, two professors followed up with about 700 of the participants and their children. The news is good and bad.

Nun who led civil rights march in Dallas leaving for Mexico - Sister Consuelo Tovar

SBA Deputy Jovita Carranza Expected to be Nominated as Agency Chief

Diabetes Before Motherhood More Than Doubled In Six Years, Study Finds (52% of the participants were Latinas)

Health risks high for Latinos - Study’s findings suggest poor working, living environments have negative impact

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Mayan immigrants face prejudice - Underlying discrimination within ethnic minority highlights major issue facing immigrant communities

A rediscovering of East L.A.’s core - Latino artists help revamp a place where the community (and freeways) intersects.

Hispanics on Harris County voter rolls triple in generation - Houston, Texas

Immigration debate erupts in Rhode Island, fueled by budget crisis (AP finally writes about it - but if you already knew about this if you are a regular reader)

‘Universal story’ told in film of immigrant deaths - ‘19 Victoria’ documents horrors using unconventional style - (short film on immigration)

10 ugly things about the immigration debate - Ruben Navarrette Jr.

Lena Guerrero’s rare journey through Texas politics

Hispanic congressmembers attack CNN over Lou Dobbs - (took them long enough)

Civil Rights, Immigration Policy And Workers’ Rights Groups Present New Evidence On Devastating Impact Of “No Match” Rule

Eye Openers –» view the latest 50 headlines or 25 excerpts

Millions of ‘Latino’ immigrants boost Spain’s low birthrate

Supreme Court Upholds Voter Identification Law in Indiana

Interest in immigration rallies wanes as groups focus on other methods of activism - Chicago area

Indian enclave at risk if Duroville closes - The desert trailer park is an outpost of the Purépechas, indigenous people from Mexico. ‘They are the poorest of the poor,’ says a nun who works with them.

Draining the basin that’s Mexico City - The metropolis, situated in a giant natural bowl, suffers flooding and backup with every rainy season. A $1.3-billion government effort aims to clear the problems.

New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie speaks at Dover church forum - Illegal immigrants aren’t criminals

Work is Criminal for Mississippi Undocumented

Son of Elvira Arellano returns to Chicago for May 1 immigration rallies - (I still have to say that the utilization of a child for this cause disturbs me)

In a political fix? Call Shakira

“Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe:” Interview with Goldman Prize Winner Jesús León Santos

Blogente –» view the latest 50 headlines or 25 excerpts - Picked from Blogente.com

La Bloga: In the Grove special issue: homage to Andrés Montoya

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Did You Know? Hispanics make up nearly 40 percent of Houston’s Harris county’s population but just 15 percent of its electorate - Texas

Did You Know? Hispanic men die from accidents at nearly twice the national rate for men, and Hispanic women die from diabetes at twice the national rate for women

Did You Know? UTEP ranked fourth for enrolling Hispanic students in graduate programs overall. In 2007, 1,855 students, or 57 percent, were Hispanic.

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“Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime,” New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie told more than 60 residents and town officials. “The whole phrase of ‘illegal immigrant’ connotes that the person, by just being here, is committing a crime.”

“I had Hispanic agencies telling me that, ‘no, Mexicans like soccer, baseball and boxing,’ ” Hambric (Lorena Ochoa’s Agent) said. “But this is a woman who is now the No. 1, best-regarded person in her country.”

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A twist of lime, indie music for beer launches

Argentina may be the most distressed story in Latin America, but it is also the most undervalued.

Work is Criminal for Mississippi Undocumented

MyGrito.com Launches New Music Player

Alfredo Duran Named Senior Vice President, Branded Services and General Manager of The Warner Channel Latin America

LATV Kicks Off Sophomore Season

SBA Deputy Jovita Carranza Expected to be Nominated as Agency Chief

New venture pushes Hispanic business growth - National Hispanic Business Information Clearinghouse (NHBIC)

Mexico’s Televisa, partner Univision head to court

The Intelligence Group Releases 2008 Latino Lifestyle Study(R)

The National Society of Hispanic MBAs Names Patricia Romero Cronin 2008 Ultimate Hispanic Executive

Hispanic Grocery Store Tries for Larger Appeal - Virginia

NAHP Conference on Digital Information Publishing Atlanta, Georgia

Line-X Truck Bedliners Launches Hispanic Campaign

Batanga, Inc. Reaches 10.8 Million Unique Visitors

Mega TV Puerto Rico Names Luis Roldan Senior Vice President and GM

Spanish Broadcasting System Hosts First Upfront for Mega TV

Civil Rights, Immigration Policy And Workers’ Rights Groups Present New Evidence On Devastating Impact Of “No Match” Rule

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Tito Guizar: Fans want his star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Jorge Villamizar da primeros pasos como solista en Colombia

Jorge Villamizar: going solo is tough, but rewarding - x-Bacilos

Miguel Zenon turns traditional Puerto Rican sounds into innovative jazz

Jaime Camil to release a new album

Eva Longoria Parker wants to play a Mexican diva

Congress sees eye to eye on helping one immigrant group — entertainers

MyGrito.com Launches New Music Player

In a political fix? Call Shakira

Mega TV Launches ‘La Descarga Con Albita’

Legendary Brazilian Musician SERGIO MENDES Announces Summer Tour Date

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Letras Latinas offers Latino poetry online - from the University of Notre Dame

Marisa Alicea Named New Dean of DePaul University’s School for New Learning

3 to travel to U.S.-Mexico border as part of LCC’s ‘Humanigration’ - Purdue University

Exhibit explores Latin arts’ meaning - The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts - San Francisco

Popular with tourists in Brazil, Recife is deadly for residents - Soaring homicide rate among the Brazilian city’s poor gets little notice. But a team of journalists is trying to change that.

Mystery surrounds Tijuana drug shootings - Newspapers are full of unattributed accounts of who was involved and who was killed. Mexican officials remain tight-lipped.

Gang shootout in Tijuana leaves 13 dead

In growing Latino community, Episcopalians see opportunity - Virginia

Tepoztlan: A sampling of Aztec divinity in Mexico

Calderón: ‘Mexico appreciates you … Mexico misses you’

Latest Blue Beetle issue published almost entirely in Spanish

Literacy fair targets Detroit Latino community

Latinos talk housing, Puerto Rico statehood he 13th Annual Hispanic Leadership Conference in Lorain county, Ohio

Deadline looms for Arizona governor to act on immigration bill

Latina/o Culture Professor Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes receives Circle Award

Dehlly Porras ready to take helm at Raritan Valley Community College - New Jersey

19th Annual Hispanic Youth Symposium - Idaho

Residents in Predominately Hispanic Southern Texas Region Suffer Higher Rates of Disease, Report Finds

Churches Seek Unity Of Black And Hispanic Communities - Memphis

Utah Office of Hispanic-Latino Affairs boss aims to boost office’s profile - Silvia Castro Thomas

Michigan Hispanic Chamber Hosts Fiesta Hispana May 16: Chrysler’s Simon Boag is Keynote Speaker

St. Louis Hispanic Scholarship Applications Accepted

IDB, Ricky Martin Foundation, Ayuda and local partners launch campaign against human trafficking in Washington, D.C .

Latin America: The Downside of the GM Revolution

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