Category: Community Stories
Latinas experience mental health barriers
By Jennifer Patiño Extra CHICAGO — Latinos, regardless of immigration status, encounter various barriers to seeking mental health treatment. These barriers impacting Latinos as a group include affordability, transportation, lack of resources in their community and scarcity of Spanish speaking professionals. A survey shows that in 1999 there were only 29 Latino mental health professionals [...]
1st Meztiza to Open a Free Store Front in San Diego County
By Marissa Acierto La Prensa San Diego NATIONAL CITY —A mestiza woman of multi-ethnic descent of Filipina, Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Hispanic American descent went for the opportunity of a lifetime to be a business entrepreneur. Shirley Hunter was a former employee of Kaiser Hospital in the radiology healthcare department and currently a Real Estate [...]
El Paso safer home for the border Electronic Dance Music community
By Jesica Alvarez Borderzine (LL note: The following is the transcript for the audio report) EL PASO — While the violence in Juarez has increased significantly over the last 3 years, so has the safety and unity of El Paso’s Electronic Dance Music (EDM) community. Since 2008, many kids and young people have ceased going to [...]
Texas Troopers To Patrol Rio Grande For Mexican Cartels
By Hernán Rozemberg Fronteras News Desk SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Texas Highway Patrol will soon hit the water. The Rio Grande, actually. Arguing the federal government continues to do too little, too late to protect the U.S.-Mexico border, the state of Texas feels compelled to pick up the slack. The Rio Grande Valley, the [...]
In Lawrence, MA, controversy keeps us alive
Editorial Rumbo Looking back at the year that just ended, we cannot honestly say that it was a very good year for Lawrence, especially for some Lawrencians. Certainly, while some of the goals for the City of Lawrence were accomplished; those same accomplishments left some citizens in a grim situation. It is not a secret [...]
APEC Economic Leaders Meeting in Honolulu Hawaii
By José Villa Hawaii Hispanic News HONOLULU, Hawaii — The APEC Economic Leaders Meeting – which took place in Honolulu November 7–13 – was the first held in the U.S. since 1993, when Bill Clinton was president. Since that time, the Asia-Pacific region has experienced unprecedented economic growth and become a leading driver of the [...]
Hispanics welcome the new year with rituals
By Juan Miret & Juan Carlos Nañez Hispano de Tulsa TULSA, Oklahoma – Some eat 12 grapes. Others eat lunch with a serving of tasty lentils, and many clean the house top to bottom. Whatever their ritual, Hispanics hope 2012 brings prosperity, health and success. The rituals Extravagant acts include jumping on one’s right foot [...]
Hispanics Have Been in Texas Since November 6, 1528
By Lino Garcia Rio Grande Guardian BROWNSVILLE, TX — Pánfilo Narváez left Spain on June 12, 1526, for the voyage to the New World. On board the five vessels were 600 men, also on board, and serving as treasurer for the expedition was Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. It took them four months to cross [...]
Former Journalist Wants World to Wake Up to Slavery Crisis
La Costa Latina GULF COAST — A woman was recently sentenced to 140 years in prison after using two Nigerian immigrants as personal unpaid servants in her luxury home in Atlanta , Georgia . A few days later, two Ukrainian brothers were convicted of smuggling desperate villagers into the United States to work long hours, [...]
Women touched by sexual assault learn to help assaulted women in their tribe
By Joshua Armstrong Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Arlene O’Brien couldn’t believe it. It was the first day of training on the Tohono O’odham reservation for Safestar, a Justice Department program that trains everyday women to help sexual assault victims. The 14 women who were there to learn how to collect evidence and provide first [...]
