More Latinos Needed In Highest Levels Of Federal Government

All things being equal, with population growth rates remaining the same, by the year 2050 there will be no clear ethnic or racial majority in the United States. That’s according […]

According to a report from Reuters, Latinas, low-income, and older women are most likely to get unneeded surgery for breast cancer. As found in the study, more than a third of 18,000 […]

News Taco editor Sara Inés Calderón was recently profiled by La Cosmopolatina as part of their series of Latinas who are inspiring and empowering others. Check out the entire profile […]

A new study by the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession shows that minority representation has barely grown between 2000-2009, inching up from 9.7% to 11.6% , highlighting a serious need for more people of […]

Three Latinas will head the 200-plus member University of Texas at San Antonio marching band as drum majors. The three were voted in by their peers and head the first ever […]

Cervical cancer is preventable. This is true even though more young women die of cervical cancer than anything else in the U.S. — it’s the second leading cause of death […]

This has been a good year for Hispanic media – and by that I mean Spanish language media in general, which industry and academia insists on calling “Hispanic.” Univisión, the leader of […]

Girl Scouts of the USA has selected Mexican-American Anna Maria Chavez as its new CEO. As mentioned previously in News Taco, the organization is stepping up efforts to recruit more […]

More than 40% of women still don’t realize that heart disease is the number one female killer. One in 30 women’s deaths in 2007 was from breast cancer, compared to […]

Recently a friend and I were discussing our lady ‘staches and the ways in which we deal with them, so I figured we weren’t the only ones. Hair removal is […]