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Guest Voz, Racial Justice, Social Justice, zNew Headline

Guest Voz: CDC Blunders in Excluding Communities of Color Among High Risk Groups for Covid-19

Jul 30, 2020, 12:32 PM 0

By Edward T. Rincón LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: Crossposted from The Culture of Research blog) It really makes little sense. Despite the fact that Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans are being hospitalized and dying at considerably higher rates than…

BlogBeat, zNew Headline

People of color breathe more air pollution

Sep 21, 2017, 10:59 AM 0

By Jennifer Langston Futurity People of color are exposed to more pollution from cars, trucks, and power plants than whites, a new 10-year study shows. Researchers estimated exposure to outdoor concentrations of a transportation-related pollutant—nitrogen dioxide (NO2)— in both…

Guest Voz, zNew Headline

Blacks and Latinos Will Be Broke in a Few Decades

Sep 20, 2017, 12:01 PM 0

By Josh Hoxie ncluido Many people see progress on racial equity in the U.S. as a steady march forward, in which people of color become more equal with their white counterparts as the years go by. Those are…

BlogBeat, zNew Headline

Body cams show cops are politer to white drivers

Jun 19, 2017, 9:27 AM 0

By Alex Shashkevich Futurity Police officers consistently use less respectful language with black community members than with white community members, the first systematic analysis of body camera footage shows. Although subtle, widespread racial disparities in officers’ language use may…

BlogBeat, zNew Headline

Black, Latino Boys in Boston Want Better Schools

Dec 21, 2015, 11:04 AM 0

By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Sixty black and Latino boys spoke to Boston school officials last week about issues they feel might be holding them back at school. Segregation, high suspension rates and teacher diversity were at the…

Community Stories, Great Plains, zNew Headline

Most Oklahoma police seizures of cash come from blacks, Hispanics

Oct 13, 2015, 12:09 PM 0

By Clifton Adcock, Ben Fenwick and Joey Stipek Oklahoma Watch Nearly two thirds of seizures of cash by Oklahoma law enforcement agencies come from blacks, Hispanics and other racial or ethnic minorities, an Oklahoma Watch analysis of high-dollar forfeiture…

Social Justice, zNew Headline

New survey highlights “whites'” trust of law enforcement over Latinos and blacks

Apr 7, 2015, 1:40 PM 0

LatinaLista — The myth of a color-blind society just got another nail hammered in its coffin thanks to the 2014 General Social Survey sponsored by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The complete report highlights the fact…

Diversity, zNew Headline

New federal data reveals there’s a reason why more Latinos and Blacks aren’t realizing the dream of home ownership

Oct 21, 2014, 4:53 PM 0

LatinaLista — Diversity is a concept everyone understands but it’s a practice that (surprisingly) is getting more pushback these days than ever before. From Silicon Valley to mainstream media newsrooms, diversity is increasingly having a polarizing effect on people…

Guest Voz, zNew Headline

Guest Voz: The awakening of Black Costa Rica

Sep 8, 2014, 12:00 AM 0

By Harry C. Alford LatinaLista I am writing this article from the beautiful nation of Costa Rica (Rich Coast in English). It is our mission to connect the dots of the African diaspora and this dot is pretty key…

Social Justice, zNew Headline

New Census report reveals poverty is becoming increasingly colorblind

Jun 30, 2014, 3:18 PM 0

LatinaLista — Historically, poverty has been associated with people of color and the latest Census Bureau report underscores that continuing trend. But the American Community Survey report, Changes in Areas with Concentrated Poverty: 2000 to 2010 also highlights a…

Guest Voz, zNew Headline

Guest Voz: Beyond Stop and Frisk: Communities Organize for Deeper Reforms

Aug 28, 2013, 11:06 AM 0

By Kenyon Farrow RH Reality Check On August 22, the New York City Council voted to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of the Community Safety Act, which is composed of two bills seeking to create more levels of accountability…

General, Life Issues

New study finds Latino and Black homebuyers pay more for their homes but researchers can’t explain why

Apr 23, 2013, 1:40 PM 0

LatinaLista — It’s sometimes said, to paraphrase a popular saying, that racism is in the eye of the beholder. That’s certainly the case over the last few years where lawsuits have been filed against universities and businesses implementing diversity…

Education, Palabra Final

Latino and Black male students at the mercy of a segregated and suspension-focused school system

Sep 19, 2012, 4:27 PM 3

LatinaLista — Though pundits, mainstream media and the political parties themselves have been obsessed over the push-and-pull direction of the Latino vote in this presidential election, one of the real issues that matters is being ignored — kinda. The issue…

General, Guest Voz

Rodolfo Acuña: Diversity. The illusion of inclusion

Jun 6, 2012, 12:00 AM 1

By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following is a presentation Prof. Acuña gave at California State University East Bay on May 16, 2012 at its Third Annual Diversity Day.) It is only the second time I have…

Economy, General, Palabra Final

The browning of America doesn’t hold up in losing job market

Jun 1, 2012, 5:44 PM 4

LatinaLista — Today’s Bureau of Labor Statistic’s employment report was not good news for Latinos. The report showed that the unemployment rate among Latinos edged up in May to now stand at 11 percent. Though the unemployment rate among…

Children, Education, Government, Youth

The release of K-12 Common Core State Standards is a boon for students of color

Jun 2, 2010, 3:48 PM 0

LatinaLista — The U.S. Census reported last month that the national mover rate increased from 11.9 percent in 2008 (a record low rate since the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking the data in 1948) to 12.5 percent in 2009….

Government, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

Arizona’s new law makes it “open season” on the state’s Latino population

Apr 14, 2010, 5:06 PM 21

LatinaLista — A disgusting story has emerged from Paris, Texas. It seems at a company called Turner Industries it was “open season” on black workers. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found evidence that black workers were harassed with Confederate…

General, Health, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

GOP’s opposition to healthcare underscores party’s disconnect with low-income Latinos, blacks and whites

Mar 24, 2010, 4:49 PM 4

LatinaLista — A strange little press conference was held this afternoon in the Senate Print Gallery on Capitol Hill. It was led by Senator Carl Levin, Chair of the Armed Services Committee and Senator Claire McCaskill, Chair of the…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Youth

Illinois bill assumes all Latinos and blacks are gang members

Mar 15, 2010, 6:06 PM 5

LatinaLista — When it comes to guns, I’m not a fan. Yeah, I’ve heard all the “Constitutional arguments” for them and even saw that the Texas State Board of Education felt the need to emphasize the right to carry…

Economy, General, Palabra Final

The sad state of Latino unemployment

Mar 5, 2010, 5:03 PM 1

LatinaLista — Everyone is suffering in this economy but until the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ February report spelled it out in numbers, the high degree of unemployment in the Latino community wasn’t truly appreciated. While national unemployment stands at…

Children, Environment, General, Media, Youth

Latino and black children have highest rates of media usage — and it shows

Jan 20, 2010, 12:23 PM 1

LatinaLista — A new national study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds, reinforced what too many Latino and black families already knew — our children spend way too much time…

General, Guest Voz, History, Social Justice

Martin Luther King Jr. Day inspires rememberance and homage

Jan 18, 2010, 4:41 PM 0

(The following text is taken from usconstitution.net) In 1950’s America, the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color — blacks, Hispanics, Asians — were discriminated against in many ways,…

General, Government, Palabra Final, Politics

New Pew survey reveals Latinos’ hopes for change under Obama are fading

Jan 13, 2010, 5:51 PM 3

LatinaLista — The Pew Research Center released a report today meant to evaluate how blacks view the state of “black progress,” especially since Barack Obama was elected president. Not surprisingly blacks responded favorably to most of the survey questions….

General, Palabra Final, Social Justice

Institutionalized racism exists — it’s time to deal with it

Jan 6, 2010, 4:05 PM 6

LatinaLista — Yesterday, Latina Lista reported on how the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Washington state’s justice system was found to be racially infected against Blacks and Latinos in how they were treated during the judicial…

Children, Education, General, Government, Palabra Final, Youth

Nothing innovative about dumbing down curriculum to close racial achievement gap

Jan 4, 2010, 4:12 PM 2

LatinaLista — There has always been talk of redesigning the high school curriculum to help close the achievement gap that persists between Anglo students and Latino and black students. Yet Berkeley High School is doing something that, while it…

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