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Today’s Latino News Headlines – August 7, 2018
Black Man Who Filmed Latino Workers Striking Is Fired from His Job, Regrets Nothing – The Root Remeber this guy with the running commentary from yesterday’s headlines? He recorded a group of Latino […]
The Literal Whitewashing of Chicago’s Latino Murals
*For some this is progress, for others it’s displacement. At a deeper level it’s erasing culture. VL NewsTaco CULTURE THURSDAY By Andrea Penman-Lomeli, Citylab (3.5 minute read) Iconic images—of […]
Latino Men Often Put Off Medical Care, Bringing Bigger Trouble
*Why you should read this: Because beyond being a cultural issue that has health repercussions, the fact the Latino men put off seeking medical care could be a health problem […]
An Unknown Latino Tuskegee Airman Has Been Discovered
*Why you should read this: Because this is new, or rather, resurfaced. Because It’s a cool story with cool pictures. VL By Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, The Atlantic (4.5 minute read) An […]
Garcetti Calls for More Latinos In Next President’s Administration
*This is the complaint I’ve been hearing coming from the Convention in Philadelphia – there needs to be more Latino senior staff in the White House. Bill and Barack fell […]
Some of Us London Latinos Saw Brexit Coming, is Trump Next?
*From the article: “Let us not fool ourselves. The threat that America will do the same is very real.” VL By Suzanne Ramírez de Arellano, NBC Latino Rule Britannia, Britannia […]
Urban Heat Islands amplify global climate change impacts for Latinos
*Take away: “place matters in identifying the most vulnerable populations” to climate change. Read this piece. Inner cities, where most U.S. Latinos live and work, are heat islands, paved-over, radiating […]
The Nation’s Latino Population Is Defined by Its Youth
*This article is chock-full of Latino millennial statistics: nearly half of native-born Latinos are younger than 18; one fourth of all U.S. Latinos are millennials; 44 percent of U.S. Latino […]
Trump’s Latino employees come out against Trump
*Orale. Seventy-five percent of the construction workers on the Trump Tower in Washington DC are Latino. For most of them “It’s just part of the job. It’s a way to earn […]
Good news for February Latino employment
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1 minute read) Good news for the economy overall, and some good news for the U.S. Latino economy specifically. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released February […]