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The public has a penchant for looming conflicts. Last year it was the fiscal cliff. Now the country’s apparently headed toward a racial cliff: “A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political Read More
Fox News Latino attempts to count the number of Latinos serving in Congress: “There is no disputing this number in the Senate, which has three Latino senators. The House, however, is a whole other matter. The House Press Gallery, an administrative office of Congress that helps media and House officials get the data and background they need, Read More
A bit of good news for Latinos: “More Latinos are graduating from high school than they were nearly a decade ago, according to a new study by the U.S. Department of Education. According to the report done by the National Center for Education Statistics, Hispanic students graduated at a rate of 71 percent in 2010. That Read More
Some good-ish news came out of the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday. As reported by Fox News Latino: “The number of Hispanics in poverty in the United States dropped by 1.2 percent from 2010 to 2011 – the largest drop of any group – but overall 1 of 4 Latinos remain stuck among America’s poorest. Read More
The Census Bureau is currently in the process of revising how it addresses the race of Latino respondents. In the 2010 Census, Americans were asked if they were of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin and then asked to identify their race as White, Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, or Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. Oh, yeah, there was one last choice: Read More
It’s finally happened. What anti-multiculturalists the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santorum and Pat Buchanan have railed against – at least since September 2001 – has finally come to fruition: ethnic minorities are being born at a higher rate in the United States than the traditional, European majority. For the first time ever in American Read More
National Poetry Month Thank you for all your poetry submissions, BL poets! Here are the last two poems for our celebration of National Poetry Month. Hope you enjoyed it. Love as it is Today by Antonely Molina People seem to find themselves in confusion Confused over the word L.O.V.E. A word so powerful but yet, Read More