Obama Naming Hispanics To Top Posts At Record Pace
MIAMI — President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide rang...
MIAMI — President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide rang...
The March of Diversity | Saturday, December 19, 2009 | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics
With Hispanics providing the principal engine, the nation's minority population is not only increasing but also dispersing beyond the big cities where...
Ruchika Tulshyan | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
There are a growing number of severely depressed Hispanic adolescents in Queens who hide suicide attempts. In some traditional pockets, to talk about mental illness is considered shameful.
Michael J. Wilson | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living
The correlation that stuck with me the most from my service at the Department of Labor during the Clinton years was the one between learning and earning, simply, "The more you learn, the more you earn."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.07.2009 | Home
Recent events don't type Palin as a racial bigot. They do type her as the latest in the long train of right-side GOP politicians who calculate that they can score big with a subtle play of the race card.
Jarrett Murphy | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York
Not only did being black or Hispanic hurt your chances of getting a decent loan, but simply living in areas with high concentrations of blacks and Hispanics did, too.
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver
I happened upon this barrio, East Highlands, as a college student. Paradoxically, 20 years later, my education and professional experience allowed me to move into the neighborhood.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment
2012 pillages an ancient culture, deliberately misrepresents its traditions, and then claims its all true. More important, it taps into the serious vein of crazy that we have in this country.
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
An Arizona RNC official called a Tucson conservative talk radio program last week and told a Arizona Democratic County Chairperson to "ask the brown people" to learn about local crime.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
I expected the neocons to get upset over the census. What surprised me is that some Latino groups have joined people like noted nutjob Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in calling for a boycott.
McClatchy | William Douglas | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Immigration, an issue placed on the congressional backburner by attempts to revamp the nation's health care system, is percolating again as Republican...
Liz Neumark | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
How interesting to embark on a project developing the menu for a museum whose surrounding neighborhood -- El Barrio -- has been described as a food desert.
AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
LONG BEACH, Calif. — When Teresa Ocampo opens her census questionnaire, she won't have to worry about navigating another document in English. T...
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.20.2009 | Denver
At present, the anti-immigration faction of the GOP has antagonized Hispanics and alienated independents, presenting a public face of the party with its most prominent features being intolerance and intemperance.
Laura Chapin | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver
Ron Brownstein has written a cautionary tale and sound advice to Democrats who might get complacent over the blue tide sweeping the Rockies.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Hispanics account for more minutes used and for a higher percentage of cell-phone ownership than other ethnic groups, despite their comparatively lower incomes.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
My family told my grandmother smokers were taking a grave risk, analogous to stealing a car in broad daylight.
The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Last week, over 8,000 people lined up to be treated by medical volunteers at the Forum stadium in Inglewood, California. It was a rare moment of visib...
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Suffering from a series of unexpected and unexplainable defeats, Republicans are likely to go off on a prolonged period of silence and eventually die for lack of political support.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 09.13.2009 | Chicago
I'm not a fan of pandering for pandering's sake, but someone addressing you with words they're unfamiliar and maybe a little uncomfortable with shows not only respect, but warmth.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Now that the Beer Summit has resolved any lingering issues over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, we can get back to our perfectly harmonious post-racial society. I, for one, am relieved.
Dolores Huerta | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
The Right never expressed disapproval over rulings by Scalia and other conservatives who concur with Sotomayor, underscoring how disingenuous attacks by the NRA and its allies have been.
John Ridley | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
MartÃnez's move can been seen as another accomplished person of color flipping a metaphorical middle finger at all the Republicans have devolved into: The party of the "angry white voter."
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Lack of diversity and a long history of racial intolerance has taken its toll on the Republican brand with the fastest growing non-white part of the population: Hispanics.
AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics