Essentials + Massachusetts Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 6, 2009

Carmen Ortiz has been confirmed as the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, becoming the first Hispanic and the first woman to hold the state’s top federal prosecutor’s job.

November 4, 2009

Lawrence elects Massachusetts’ first Latino mayor – William Lantigua

September 1, 2009

Massachusetts Cuts Back Immigrants’ Health Care – 31,000 legal immigrants

August 18, 2009

Cases of swine flu higher among Boston’s blacks, Hispanics

July 20, 2009

Salsa musician and actor Ruben Blades celebrated his 61st birthday Thursday with a nostalgic visit to his archive collection at Harvard University.

June 5, 2009

Controversial right wing radio talk show host Jay Severin, suspended for a month for making derogatory comments about Mexican immigrants, will return to the airwaves Tuesday. – was suspended April 30 after calling Mexican immigrants “criminaliens,” “primitives,” and “leeches,” and saying Mexico’s leading exports included venereal disease and “women with mustaches and VD.”

August 20, 2008

Twenty months after stunning Boston by backing out of the superintendent of schools post, Manuel J. Rivera has quit as deputy secretary of education for the State of New York.

August 1, 2008

Dodgers get Manny Ramirez from Red Sox

July 23, 2008

Latino MBTA employees, angry over anti-Hispanic comments allegedly made by the transit authority’s antidiscrimination chief, took their frustration to Governor Deval Patrick yesterday, seeking a high-level ally to air their grievances. – Massachusetts

June 4, 2008

Massachusetts sues H & R Block over its mortgage unit’s lending practices – The complaint alleges that the sub-prime division discriminated against black and Latino borrowers.

May 22, 2008

Tuition aid to illegal immigrants falters – Massachusetts’ Gov Patrick declines to act on behalf of graduates

April 15, 2008

Did You Know? The Colorado Civil Rights Division says Boulder County is the second-hardest place in the country for Hispanics to get a fair home loan. – Cambridge, Mass. was #1