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Music Video for Dominicans
Fom the Barrios of the Dominican Republic comes “Hasta Mañana,” a music video from Dominican Rapper, Vakero. The song is a love letter to the daily lives of Dominicans in the poorest areas in the island.
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“Alberto Gonzales is resigning as U.S. attorney general, and here is what critics of all stripes are saying: He was blindly, brainlessly loyal to President Bush, gave atrocious advice, was an incompetent managerial mangler and klutzy in his own self-defense.
His legacy includes a Department of Justice that’s demoralized and in disarray, argue some detractors who [...]
New Jersey Police will now check immigration status
“After a review driven by three brutal slayings, the state attorney general on Wednesday ordered New Jersey law enforcers to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving is found to be an illegal immigrant.
Attorney General Anne Milgram reviewed the states policy in light of the execution-style killings Aug. [...]
Hispanic Athletes Learns From West Palm Professor
“Batista credits the instruction he received from Dr. Lynette Nadal, an English professor at Northwood University in West Palm Beach. For 17 years, Nadal has devoted much of her time to teaching Hispanic players English as a second language and working to improve their life skills.
“Before her, we had no one,” said Batista, 36, a [...]
Puerto Rico to Strengthen AIDS Treatment Program
“Puerto Rico’s AIDS treatment program, hit by drug shortages in recent months, will be aggressively revamped to ensure patients in the U.S. territory receive medication without delays, the governor announced Tuesday.
The program aims to provide anti-retroviral drug therapy for thousands of HIV/AIDS sufferer but has faltered recently due to a forced rationing of free medicine [...]
Cities Ban Ethnic Food Trucks
Taco truck owners in New Orleans, Louisiana are accusing local officials of singling out Hispanics after the City passed a law banning certain kinds of mobile food vendors. According to the Boston Globe, local politicians “have long turned a blind eye to whites and blacks peddling shrimp out of pickup trucks and snow cones on [...]
Plan to Send Immigrants Home Is Defeated in Senate
“The Senate on Wednesday killed a Republican proposal to require all adult illegal immigrants to return home temporarily in order to qualify for permanent lawful status in this country.
Also defeated was a Democratic bid to restrict legal status to those who have been in the United States for four years.”
Virginia’s HIV Campaign Targeted at Hispanics
“The Virginia Department of Health has been using Spanish radio to encourage Hispanics living in Northern Virginia to get tested for HIV.
The $50,000 statewide advertising campaign coincides with National HIV Testing Day, a day to encourage people to learn their HIV status. The testing day, which was yesterday, was started in 1995 by the National [...]
Presidential Candidates to Debate on Univision
MIAMI – Two presidential candidates have accepted the invitation of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision to participate in Spanish-language debates next fall, reports Spanish news service EFE in Diario Hoy. Univision, the number one Spanish-language TV broadcaster in the United States, proposed separate Democratic and Republican debates to air after Labor Day. They would feature simultaneous translation [...]
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