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Democrats should be worried about losing Latino support—and not just in the obvious places.

Two openly gay candidates will face off in Chicago's mayoral race. The newcomer shares his journey growing up gay in Chicago's Latinx community.

Two openly gay candidates will face off in Chicago's mayoral race. The newcomer shares his journey growing up gay in Chicago's Latinx community.

Both stars have turned to the deep grooves of house music for their new music. Here's why.

SAGINAW, MI -- Larry Rodarte is tired of the Latino community being silent on issues. Rodarte, director of Saginaw’s La Union Civica and publisher of Mi Gente Magazine, says that needs to change with a renewed focus on mental health and community awareness. “I haven’t seen this kind of local outcry since Oxford, and before that parkland and that was four years ago,” Rodarte said. Rodarte called it shame that more people aren’t involved to make a change after what happened in Oxford, six months ago. “The images we’ve seen in a Tex-Mex community, with relations not unsimilar to ours here in Saginaw, really hit home,” Rodarte said.

You can't bring up white supremacy to many white people without getting accused of being a racist for doing so.

When I found out that the person who killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, was named Salvador Rolando Ramos, my stomach dropped.

Beto O'Rourke confront Gov. Greg Abbott during Uvalde, Texas shooting update.

The map includes one less Latino-majority ward than the Latino Caucus wanted.

"When it stretches that far, it’s not your neighbors anymore," one resident said.

The four groups of voters that will prove critical to results in the 2022 midterm elections.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says there are pressing issues that need attention "that have nothing to do with" the ward map.

After months of fighting between Black and Latino City Council members over the next decade of council power in Chicago, aldermen say they’ve reached agreement on a new map.

The buy is part of a $10 million purchase by Pence's group, Advancing American Freedom.

The proposed map would create 16 Black-majority and 14 Latino-majority wards, sources said, one less than the Latino Caucus wanted.

The move was done "to make sure the people of Chicago have no say," one good-government advocate said.

The reggaeton superstar said he thinks it's the "perfect role" for him.

The reggaeton superstar said he thinks it's the "perfect role" for him.

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest stars on the planet, is about to become El Muerto, a Marvel hero you may not have heard of.

Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny will play the title character in the Spider-Man spinoff El Muerto — about a wrestler who gets superpowers from a mask. Sony Pictures plans a 2024 release.

Pennsylvania’s education secretary Noe Ortega will step down April 29, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday.

New York plans to add 1,000 seats for third grade and 100 more for kindergarten gifted and talented programs.

FLINT, MI -- Flint Community Schools is hosting a Future Focused community forum to hear from the Latino community next week. A community forum to gather input on the use of COVID-19 funds will take place from 5-7p.m. Asa Zuccaro, executive director of the Latinx Technology and Community Center, said he is glad that the Latino community is being included on the conversation. “I am really appreciative that Flint Community Schools finds it important to engage with the communities that we serve,” he told MLive-The Flint Journal. A Zoom link to the meeting is available on the Flint schools website.

Lee grew up in Chinatown and replaces Patrick Daley Thompson, who resigned following his conviction in a tax case.

Black and Latino caucuses on the City Council have been at odds over a new ward map.

More than 700,000 Latinos purchased homes in 2020, the biggest one-year increase for that demographic in two decades.

Revise census questions now, and protect the decennial count from another president like Donald Trump.

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (English) or 1-888-628-9454 (Spanish). Notably, suicides among Latino men increased nearly 6%. “(Latino men) weren’t getting much help to begin with,” said Fredrick Sandoval, executive director of the New Mexico-based National Latino Behavioral Health Association. On top of that, Latino men (and women) lost jobs at disproportionately high rates after COVID-19 arrived. While the men didn’t want to speak for others, he said he understood how the economic upheaval associated with the pandemic could have driven some Latino men to take their lives.

The director of Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy discusses a staggering new report on child poverty in the United States.

Donald Trump ganó terreno con Latinos en 2020. Este año, votantes en un nuevo distrito congresional de Colorado enfrentan preocupaciones económicas que podrían costarle a los demócratas.

Donald Trump made gains with Latinos nationally in 2020. This year, voters in a competitive new Colorado congressional district are facing economic and pandemic concerns that could cost Democrats.

For those following a decades-long quest for greater opportunities in Hollywood, these are signs that 2022 could be the year the Latino storyline is finally rewritten. “Encanto,” from Disney, nominated for Best Animated Feature. Fellow Spaniards Alberto Iglesias (Best Original Score for “Parallel Mothers”) and director Alberto Mielgo (Best Animated Short Film, “The Windshield Wiper”) also won nominations. The future looks bright for Latinos in Hollywood, Gibson added. Two of Pagán’s recent articles for palabra have been nominated for the 14th-annual Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards.

Ahead of the event, campaigns to curb trafficking have been popping up in the city. Some say it could lead to arrests of sex workers, not traffickers.

Larry Dominick commented in response to a staff report that some Cicero residents were confused by mixed messages regarding COVID-19.

One third of the city’s preschool students weren’t receiving all of their legally mandated services.

Jamal Simmons took on the new role last week.

Some students said they have endured racial slurs from other students, while others alleged being targeted by some teachers who have kicked them out of class or called security on them.

Illinois Democrats defend state legislative remap against legal challenges, saying the state exceeds the goals of the federal Voting Rights Act.

Personal photographs posted on the Instagram account Nuevayorkinos offer a revealing portrait of the city.

The information was passed to Equifax, which sold it to ICE and other police agencies.

Today, we are filing suit against the State of Texas based on our determination that Texas’ 2021 Redistricting Plans violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Instead, our investigation determined that Texas’ redistricting plans will dilute the increased minority voting strength that should have developed from these significant demographic shifts. These redistricting plans will diminish the opportunities for Latino and Black voters in Texas to elect their preferred representatives. The complaint also asks the court to establish interim plans pending a lawful state redistricting. The Justice Department stands ready to protect the constitutionally guaranteed voting rights of Americans in Texas and indeed throughout the country.

The lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Texas, claims the state violates part of the Voting Rights Act.

The Justice Department has sued Texas over its new redistricting maps, saying the plans discriminate against minority voters, particularly Latinos, who have fueled the state’s population boom.

A Q&A with U.S. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal on canceling student-loan debts, the pandemic’s hit to college enrollment and why elite schools should pay less attention to college rankings.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine in Des Plaines welcomes pilgrims for annual feast with new entrance after pandemic hiatus.

Fourth annual Insult-A-Columnist Holiday Food Drive begins as the number of people facing food insecurity in the Chicago area remains at a record high level.

Communities such as Pilsen and Little Village, once plagued by overcrowded schools, saw major enrollment losses during the pandemic.

The education department will group certain nearby high schools so they can share access to sports teams.

The rollout of COVID-19 shots for elementary-age children has exposed another blind spot in the nation’s efforts to address pandemic inequalities.

Asian American leaders in Chicago are demanding the next map of City Council include Chicago's first-ever Asian majority ward.

Chief exec acknowledges his comments "compounded the grief" of the families of two Chicago children who were fatally shot.

Challenges to a Democratic-drawn state legislative map in Illinois call for additional majorityLatino districts.

On this last day of National Heritage Month, we were joined by a Detroit author who is educating children about Latin culture and showing them that everyone who is Hispanic or Latinx does not necessarily look the same. She has written the book, “Latina Looks Like Me,” a personal story of her own upbringing.

President Joe Biden has announced another diverse group of candidates for his second round of judicial nominations, a day after some in his first slate of picks went before the U.S. Senate.

In state legislatures across the country, lawmakers of color are seizing on the nation’s reckoning with racial injustice.

Calls have grown for federal investigations into police killings across the nation since President Joe Biden took office and said he believes racial disparities in policing must change.

Democrats are escalating their charges that the Republican push for tighter state voting laws is designed to make it hard for people of color to vote.

Latino voters who have been hard hit by the pandemic could be a key group of voters in Newsom's potential recall election. “If they're successful in doing that then certainly the Latino vote could be persuaded to vote for the recall," Alvarado said. “Latino voters are incredibly important to our campaign, to Kevin personally, and to our pathway to victory,” he said. He said the campaign is partnering with community-based organizations that understand the diversity within California’s Latino communities and deploying surrogates to speak around the state. For both sides, the key will be to connect their outreach to Latino voters’ individual experiences, she said.

Roberto Clemente was the first Latino to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The legacy of Roberto Clemente is still treasured today, proven nearly 50 years after his death. In fact, the Orange County School Board unanimously voted to rename the facility Roberto Clemente Middle on Sept. 21, coincidentally during Hispanic Heritage Month. Becoming baseball’s most prominent Afro-LatinoRoberto Clemente started his Major League Baseball career with the Pittsburg Pirates. The son of a sugarcane worker, Clemente began his professional baseball career just after finishing high school.

But it also showed that candidates can't always take traditional supporters for granted, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate. Nationally, Biden earned support from roughly two-thirds of Latino voters, while Trump got the backing of about a third. But Latino voters are not a monolithic bloc, given their vastly different cultures, and many U.S.-born Latinos have few cultural ties to Latin America. AP VoteCast also found South Americans made up 3% of the electorate, and they split about evenly between the two candidates. Trump voters remain adamant that the economy is in good shape: About three-quarters call national economic conditions excellent or good.

This image shows a party game focused on Latino pop culture. the Tragos Stay Home Pack and includes such activities as showing off your best moves to Bad Bunnys Yo Perreo Sola dance and taking your best shot at duplicating Cardi Bs coronavirus howl. Half the proceeds of the set go to The Immigrant Worker Safety Net Fund. Options in Spanish and English, both digital and in a box, are now widely available. (Tragos Games LLC via AP)

Options in Spanish and English, both digital and in a box, are now widely available. Options in Spanish and English, both digital and in a box, are now widely available. Widely available. Widely available. Widely available.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – JPMorgan Chase said Thursday it will extend billions in loans to Black and Latino homebuyers and small business owners in an expanded effort toward fixing what the bank calls “systemic racism” in the country’s economic system. “Systemic racism is a tragic part of America’s history,” said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in a statement. Citigroup announced last month it is committing $1 billion toward closing “the racial wealth gap” in the United States, including $550 million toward homeownership programs for racial minorities. He noted that there’s a 30% gap between Black and white homeownership, amounting to about 4.5 million households. JPMorgan was one of 27 major New York-based companies that joined a program to recruit 100,000 workers from the city's low-income, predominately Black, Latino and Asian communities over the next 10 years.

Gretchen Whitmer has issued a proclamation declaring Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 as Hispanic Heritage Month. There are more 60 million Hispanic Americans in the United States, and the cultural, economic, and artistic contributions of Hispanic communities continue to enrich Michigan’s society, Whitmer said. “During this month I want to encourage everyone to appreciate and recognize the countless achievements and contributions Hispanic Americans have made to this great state,” Whitmer said. Hispanic Americans have acted as entrepreneurs, educators, trailblazers, activists, artists and so much more. To view the proclamation, click the link below:Special section: Hispanic Heritage Month

A man wearing a face mask walks past a mural Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in South Central Los Angeles. California's plan to safely reopen its economy will begin to require counties to bring down coronavirus infection rates in disadvantaged communities that have been harder hit by the pandemic. It allows counties to incrementally reopen businesses as they meet more rigid state standards for both numbers for two consecutive weeks. The equity measure will require that positive test rates in its most disadvantaged neighborhoods, where rates are often much higher, do not significantly lag behind the county overall. “We think it needs to go beyond that because if you don’t have savings, you cannot stay home and not work.

This undated photo provided by Panda Bear Films/Latino Public Broadcasting shows Latino construction worker stands outside a Dallas construction site. (Moyo Oyelola/Panda Bear Films/Latino Public Broadcasting via AP)RIO RANCHO, N.M. – Since the Great Recession, cities like Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, and Hobbs, New Mexico, have seen construction booms. “Building the American Dream,” a new VOCES/PBS documentary, examines the effects of this construction boom in the American Southwest on Latino workers by telling the stories of those erecting buildings in Texas. The film dives into the lives of one Mexican immigrant family in Texas after their construction worker son dies while on the job. The film, though a partnership with Latino Public Broadcasting, is scheduled to begin airing on most PBS stations on Tuesday to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States.

NEW YORK Chita Rivera, Gloria Estefan, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thala will headline a benefit digital concert in October to celebrate Latino culture and achievement in theater. Hear Our Voices will be held online Oct. 1 and will be hosted by Andra Burns. It's going to pay attention to the present and look to the future, said Trujillo, who said the themes will explore Latin representation, inclusion and diversity. Additional attendees include Lucie Arnaz, Melissa Barrera, Jaime Camil, Florencia Cuenca, Ral Esparza, Mandy Gonzalez, Ral Gonzalez, Ivan Hernandez, Ariana DeBose, Mauricio Martinez, Bianca Marroqun, Shereen Pimentel, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Philippa Stefani, Anglica Vale, Robin de Jesus and Ana Villafae. The concert will be broadcast on Playbill.com, Playbills YouTube Channel and on The Broadway Leagues Viva.Broadway website.

The initiative is backed by the group Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino. The journey toward a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino began in 2004. Other museums in the making for minority groupsLatino people aren't the only ones trying to get a national Smithsonian museum. In this congressional session alone, there are similar bills for a Smithsonian Women's History Museum, a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture, and a National Museum of Irish American History. Of all the bills, the Women's History Museum has the most traction.