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WASHINGTON, D.C. -The number of minority-owned businesses increased by 45.6 percent to 5.8 million between 2002 and 2007, more than twice the national rate of all U.S. businesses, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, the number of women-owned businesses increased 20.1 percent during the same period. The total number of U.S. businesses increased [...]
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) challenged the federal government and Corporate America to appoint more Latinos to higher positions at this year’s 81st Annual LULAC National Convention.
By the numbers, Latinos are the dominant minority group in the nation, totaling more than 15 percent of the population, a proportion that [...]
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SOUTHFIELD, MI – Multicultural ad agency GlobalHue today revealed the results of a new U.S. survey of four major population segments, creating a comprehensive cultural map of a rapidly changing nation and providing marketers with new information on consumers in the New America.
Surveying people in African-American, Hispanic, Asian and non-Hispanic [...]
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By SOPHIA TAREEN
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — In her police mug shot, the doe-eyed cartoon heroine with the bowl haircut has a black eye, battered lip and bloody nose. Dora the Explorer’s alleged crime? “Illegal Border Crossing Resisting Arrest.”
The doctored picture, one of several circulating widely in the aftermath of Arizona’s controversial new immigration [...]
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By Dr. Gail Christopher
WASHINGTON, DC—Tears of joy were shed the night that America elected its first African American president. It was fresh evidence the historic civil rights struggles of the 50s and 60s had been worth the fight; that blood had not been spilled in vain. And across the nation, the words “President-elect [...]
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PHOENIX, AR – MALDEF, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Arizona and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) held a news conference today on the House of Representatives Lawn of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix, Arizona to announce their future legal challenge to Governor Jan Brewer’s recently signed SB1070. In addition, the [...]
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Arizona has got a national PR fiasco of epic proportions in its hands. The state government’s passage of what is widely considered a racist Latino profiling law is causing some weird but not fully unwarranted repercussions. Arizona is almost being treated like another country as major metropolitan cities across the country call for what looks [...]
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Study of DC area loans reveals racial component to lending and
foreclosure unexplained by objective underwriting criteria
WASHINGTON, DC — As financial reform works its way
through the Senate, a new study by the National
Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) indicates that subprime
lending and subsequent resulting foreclosures were led by the private
market and contained a clear racial component not explained [...]
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Diversity Keynoter: PRSA CEO and Chair-Elect Rosanna Fiske, APR, will discuss her rise to the top of PR
- Fiske will speak about her rise to the top of PRSA’s leadership as part of opening reception that will also reveal results of the national Hispanic PR Census
- Corporate and agency human resource managers and other recruiters [...]
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MONTEREY, Calif. — Starting in April, UnitedHealthcare will offer two free Medicare education seminars aimed at helping Hispanic-American seniors understand the basics of Medicare. Following the seminar, seniors are encouraged to take a free Zumba Gold class, a Latin-infused fitness program that blends the rhythms of merengue, salsa, cumbia, rumba, and tango.
UnitedHealthcare will offer these [...]
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NEW YORK, NY– Wesley, Brown & Bartle, a national executive search firm, announces survey results reflecting a dismal re-employment picture for minority executives.
“Despite the advance of widely publicized corporate diversity programs
since we last surveyed them five years ago, lingering myths, de-selective biases and an impaired hiring process have impacted far more severely on African-American and Latino executives than their white [...]
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Jon Kutchera, of dotGlobal Hispanic/Latin American marketing, is requesting the participation of any professional in the Hispanic marketing, online or translation industry, to complete a short survey about search engine usage among US Latinos, online content availability in Spanish and online media trends in general.
The data will be used in his book , “The New [...]
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By JUAN CASTILLO
The Statesmen
Austin, TX–A South by Southwest music conference music panel will explore how the entertainment industry can expand its audience by engaging Hispanics, the youngest, fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, organizers have announced.
The music panel, “Reaching America’s Fastest Growing Market,” will be held March 19 at 5 p.m. at the Austin Convention [...]
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By JOHN T. EDGE
The New York Times
AUSTIN, TX - Austin can’t claim taco primacy. That category is too broad, encompassing too many variations in style.
When it comes to breakfast tacos, however, Austin trumps all other American cities.
Roberto Espinosa, proprietor of Tacodeli and the breakfast taco interpreter of the moment, espouses a slacker consumer theory of why [...]
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BOSTON, Mass.– United for a Fair Economy announced that its annual report on racial economic inequality is now available for download in Spanish. The report, State of the Dream 2010: Drained – Jobless and Foreclosed in Communities of Color, examines racial economic disparities in a range of areas including foreclosures, poverty, income and wealth.
Newly updated [...]
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Accurate Census Data on Children Critical to Billions in Federal Funding and Community Planning
WASHINGTON, DC– The U.S. Census Bureau today launched a “Children Count Too” public awareness campaign reminding parents to include babies and young children on their 2010 Census forms. Most of the nation’s 120 million households will begin receiving census questionnaires by mail [...]
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PITTSBURGH, PA — The University of Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work and the Center on Race and Social Problems will host “Race in America” — designed to be the most solution-focused conference on race ever held — on the University’s Pittsburgh campus June 3-6.
Seven key areas will be explored during “Race in America”: economics, education, [...]
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WASHINGTON, DC– According to the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are two times more likely than their white counterparts to have Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Hispanics are one and one-half times more likely than whites to have Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Although whites make up the great majority of the more [...]
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The 2010 Sleep in America poll released by the National Sleep
Foundation (NSF) reveals significant differences in the sleep habits
and attitudes of Asians, Blacks/African-Americans, Hispanics and
Whites. It is the first poll to examine sleep among these four ethnic
groups.
NSF’s Sleep in America poll found that more than three-fourths of
respondents from each ethnic group agree that poor sleep [...]
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MIAMI, FL – According to projections from the United States Census Bureau, people with skin of color will comprise approximately half of the U.S. population by 2050. This group, which includes African-Americans, Asians, Latinos and other ethnicities, are more prone to certain dermatologic problems than those with lighter skin tones due to their genetic make-up [...]
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WASHINGTON, DC - The Justice Department will monitor several primary elections tomorrow in Fort Bend, Galveston, Gonzales, Williamson and Wilson Counties in Texas, to ensure compliance with the minority language requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes. The Voting Rights Act requires these covered jurisdictions to provide language [...]
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ISELIN, N.J.– The Siemens Foundation announced the winners of the 2010 Siemens Teacher Scholarship today in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The CSR program from Siemens provides scholarships to students enrolled in the nation’s public and private Historically Black Colleges and Universities who are pursuing teaching careers in science, technology, engineering or [...]
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SANTA CRUZ, CA – Two of the country’s preeminent scientific societies have agreed to collaborate on initiatives to advance underrepresented minorities in science, specifically in the field of chemistry.
SACNAS, a national society advancing Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in science, and the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, plan to use their combined [...]
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J.– The NACCP has launched the NAACP Interactive Historical Timeline, a multimedia website that tells the story of the 101-year-old civil rights organization through words, pictures and video and narrated by actor Laurence Fishburne and other celebrities.
The Web site, www.naacphistory.org, was funded through a $500,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic [...]
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In honor of Black History Month, PRSA is spotlighting the role of African-American scholars and practitioners in advancing the public relations profession.
PRSA has invited prominent leaders in the public relations profession to offer their views on race and public relations and their ideas for achieving greater racial and ethnic diversity in the industry. Wilma Ruth [...]
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