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The White House is answering your questions, and @BeingLatino is joining our friends at @NCLR to ask them. Are you curious about the rise of voter suppression laws? Do you want to know how the White House plans to secure comprehensive immigration reform? Were you wondering how the historic mortgage settlement will benefit the millions… [Continue Reading]
Welcome to this week’s Sin Palabras! Life can be hectic sometimes, which is why it’s good to have a place you can go to relax and unwind. Here are some of your favorite places to do so. From Josephine Gavidia in New York City.
The Census Bureau reported last week that the U.S has hit an all-time high in the percentage of Americans holding bachelor’s degree. According to the Census, 30 percent of American adults hold at least a bachelor’s degree compared to 26.2 percent 10 years ago. More women are also graduating leaving the gap between men and… [Continue Reading]
When raised in a traditional household, the mentality drilled into a young Latina is that she must go to school, find a job, and find a husband. You get married, have children, and live happily ever after as husband and wife. While this sounds like a nice goal to have, there’s a serious flaw in… [Continue Reading]
The use of Google as the default for almost everything in our live: email, search, Youtube, social networking, and much more is pretty much complete. A couple weeks ago, you may have received some notification that Google is updating its privacy policy. Now, usually when it comes to privacy policies and terms of service, you… [Continue Reading]
In an ever changing and increasingly technical world, it makes sense to start teaching young people how to interact and use computer technology at an early age. It’s a vital skill, one that our youth will undoubtedly need to know – so why not start them out when they’re very young? The makers of Scratch… [Continue Reading]
America, it’s been said, is a “patchwork quilt.” Irish hands helped build the Erie Canal, and Chinese immigrants went to work on the transcontinental railroad, making cross-country travel possible “from sea to shining sea.” America’s present-day economic might was paid for in flesh by millions of African slaves – whipped, beaten, and forced to toil… [Continue Reading]
The Vatican recently announced that the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, is poised to make a foray into the world of social media by joining micro-blogging platform Twitter. That’s right – the Holy See will be sending out messages on the popular website, spreading the Gospel and the word of God, 140 characters at a… [Continue Reading]
My life before her was miserable. I suffered through nights of eating bonbons and watching Waiting to Exhale when all of my friends had a ride to the club, except me. My family kept judging me. “Look at him, 27 and no car. Is he gay?” I suffered humiliation after humiliation, being invited to far… [Continue Reading]
Recent reporting suggests the federal government intends to draw back from the controversial Immigrant Investor Program, known within the halls of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as “EB-5,” and pejoratively labeled by critics as “cash for visas.” The program offers a pathway to citizenship to wealthy immigrants who agree to invest between $500,000 and… [Continue Reading]