Essentials + New York Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 20, 2009
Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?
November 9, 2009
Remembering Marcelo Lucero : Images and Thoughts from Vigil in Patchogue, Long Island
October 29, 2009
New Study Shows that for Latinos in NYC, The Recession is a Depression
October 15, 2009
Mexican Illegal Immigrant (Mario Vera) Badly Beaten In Brooklyn – Devastated Wife Asks For Witnesses To Come Forward; Woodhull Hospital Under Fire Over Initial Treatment – (yet another apparent hate crime called “bias attack” – $12k reward for info) + video
October 12, 2009
Beyond the Barrio, With Growing Pains – El Museo del Barrio reopens with a new glass facade, a redesigned courtyard and modernized galleries, including one devoted to its permanent collection in East Harlem, NYC – Rafael Montañez Ortiz
September 8, 2009
In a strange twist, police busted a Hispanic man for tossing a bottle and a piece of wood at parishioners of a Hispanic church in an area of Long Island long plagued by racial strife — and charged him with a hate crime. (wt!@$)
Christhian Munguia Garcia
August 18, 2009
A Q& A with Ed Morales about documentary “Whose Barrio?” covering the gentrification or the selling of NYC’s Spanish Harlem, El Barrio
August 3, 2009
FDNY written exams excluded hundreds of black and Hispanic firefighters, federal judge rules
July 29, 2009
Olga A. Méndez, First Puerto Rican Woman Elected To U.S. State Legislature, Dead At 83
July 22, 2009
New York International Latino Film Festival founder Calixto Chinchilla marks 10th anniversary
July 13, 2009
Latin Alternative Music’s Movers and Shakers Meet
June 11, 2009
Latino-Black Rivalry Helped Fuel G.O.P.’s Takeover of New York State Senate – re: Pedro Espada Jr. new president of the Senate and Hiram Monserrate
May 7, 2009
Staten Islander arrested a 2nd time in alleged hate crime – accused of whipping a Mexcian immigrant with his belt, reportedly told police: “We did nothing wrong. … He’s an illegal immigrant. I’m an American citizen.”
April 10, 2009
New York will soon have a new daily Spanish-language newspaper. On April 20, NY Al Día will be launched
March 11, 2009
MTV’s ‘I’m a Nuyorican’ not getting El Barrio love – has only managed to spark a lot of drama.
March 4, 2009
2 Indicted in Fatal Beating of Ecuadorean Immigrant – The two suspects, Keith Phoenix, 28, and Hakim Scott, 25, are charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and assault, all as hate crimes, for the Dec. 7 attack on the immigrant, Jose O. Sucuzhañay, and his brother Romel, who survived.
March 3, 2009
Hoping for a Latino Archbishop, Eventually – Latinos account for at least half of the Roman Catholics in New York
January 15, 2009
New York City police stopped, questioned and frisked more than half a million people last year, 80% of them black and Hispanic, a civil-rights group said Thursday.
December 18, 2008
Several hundred Hispanics gathered Wednesday in the New York borough of Queens to say their last goodbyes to Ecuadorian Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhañay, the victim of a hate crime.
December 15, 2008
Ecuadorean Man Dies From Beating Before His Mother Arrives to See Him – Jose Sucuzhanay
Hundreds protest New York immigrant’s fatal beating – Jose Sucuzhanay
December 10, 2008
New York beating victim dies, police say – Authorities open a homicide investigation into the attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant whose assailants reportedly shouted anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs.
December 9, 2008
An Ecuadorean immigrant was in critical condition Monday after being brutally beaten by four attackers who authorities say may have mistaken him and his brother for gay men. – New York City
A Self-Leaking Nominee? Adolfo Carrion Jr. for a cabinet post? :: Bronx Borough President, Democrat of Puerto Rican descent, serves as president of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials(NALEO) + a not to complimentary website adolfocarrion.com
December 5, 2008
Pedro Espada will take office as majority leader of the New York State Senate in January. – 33rd Senate District – Bronx, NYC
November 25, 2008
The high school student accused of stabbing an Ecuadorean immigrant to death pleaded not guilty to murder, hate crime and conspiracy charges in Riverhead yesterday.
November 21, 2008
6 Long Island Teens Charged With Hate Crimes and one with murder in the Nov. 8 killing of Marcelo Lucero
November 20, 2008
Congresswoman Nydia M. Velazquez (D-N.Y.) Chosen to Lead Hispanic Agenda in the 111th Congress – Unanimously elected Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
November 17, 2008
In Ecuador, a killing on Long Island sparks fear
November 12, 2008
A community looks to heal after death of Hispanic man – Patchogue, Long Island
November 11, 2008
The brother of an Ecuadoran immigrant who was murdered on Long Island for being Hispanic said Monday his “American Dream” was crushed. His words came as the teenagers accused of killing 37-year-old Marcello Lucero were denounced in court as a “lynch mob” by a prosecutor.
November 10, 2008
A gang of white teens prowling for Hispanic victims stabbed an Ecuadoran man to death on Long Island in a brutal attack cops described Sunday as a hate crime.
November 4, 2008
A suburban New York county sent an official mailer telling thousands of voters in Spanish that Election Day is Nov. 9, then spent the weekend making automated calls to alert people to the mistake.
October 28, 2008
Study Notes Fewer Loans to Hispanics and Blacks – The number of new mortgages to blacks and Hispanics fell sharply in New York City in 2007, while staying flat for white borrowers and — surprisingly — rising for Asian-Americans
October 27, 2008
Secret of their 6-cess: Queens couple Victor and Digna Carpio share story delivery of sextuplets – believed to be the first sextuplets born to a Hispanic couple in the U.S.
October 6, 2008
Last Call: Join Leading Executives at Hispanic Digital and Print Media’s Preeminent Event
September 23, 2008
Vicious bat attack leaves radio host blind in one eye – Dominican Pelagio de la Cruz – (video included)
September 22, 2008
From New York Soil, the Taste of Home – Agustín Juárez maintains Mexican traditions on his labor of love, a small plot in Staten Island where he grows the vegetables and herbs of home.
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 12, 2008
Overall, 43% of Hispanic students in 2007 graduated in four years, compared to 41% in 2006 and 37.4% in 2005, an increase of 5.6 points. – New York City (while an increase is encouraging the percentage is still under 50%!!!)
August 3, 2008
Rapid growth for Spanish-speaking television news – On an evening its rivals were preoccupied with Christie Brinkley’s divorce and the capture of a Brooklyn murder suspect, New York’s WXTV led its local news with a story about graffiti saying “Get out of the USA” painted near a Peruvian restaurant on Long Island.
July 30, 2008
Local New York Univision reporter Miriam Ayala filed a federal lawsuit against the local Univision station (channel 41) and the larger network, claiming that she was passed over for plum positions anchoring and on good stories because she wasn’t light skinned enough, young enough or pretty enough.
July 24, 2008
Just a couple of months after WCBS/Ch. 2 correspondent Pablo Guzman cheated death in a car crash, he’s now recovering from a heart attack. – New York City
July 21, 2008
The deportation of illegal workers is dividing Long Island, one of America’s wealthiest regions
July 16, 2008
Immigrants Eager to Vote Sue to Hasten Citizenship – New York
June 5, 2008
Emilio Navarro an ageless ambassador – At 102, Navarro is the oldest living professional baseball player and the first Puerto Rican to play in the Negro Leagues.
May 28, 2008
The galleries of the venerable Museo del Barrio have officially closed to make way for the last stage of a $28 million renovation that will give a needed face-lift to the city’s only Latin-focused museum. – NYC
To Omar Minaya, racial divide on Mets sounds altogether wrong
May 19, 2008
High Price of Rice Is Felt by New York Latinos – In Latino Enclaves, Less Arroz, More Beans
May 14, 2008
Beto Cuevas will showcase unreleased songs in his NY solo debut
