The Future is Now: See our multimedia, bilingual reports that get behind the Census numbers.
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo appoints two more Latinas to his administration.
An Impremedia-Latino Decisions poll shows that immigration reform and the Dream Act are top issues for both Latino immigrants and native U.S. Hispanics.
Joseph Abreu, 20, boricua y dominicano de Bushwick. Luego de abandonar la escuela superior y cumplir una sentencia en Riker’s Island por posesión de drogas, Abreu se matriculó en un programa para obtener su diploma de educación general, y se desempeña como rapero bajo el nombre ‘Cook Monsta da Illest’.
An NPR analysis of documents and records show that private prisons helped draft and pass Arizona’s SB1070 law. El Diario’s editorial series on the immigration prison complex.
Report shows that 24 percent of Puerto Rican young men in NYC are neither employed nor in school. VIDEO: Bushwick youth has a message for young people.
A spokesperson for Andrew Cuomo says the NY gubernatorial candidate misspoke at his own presser yesterday in saying that he had voted for Bloomberg—not former mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer—in a past mayoral election.
El Diario asked the Material Girl’s daughter, who is half Cuban, whether she speaks Spanish. Here is Lourdes’ response.
Editorial: English Language Learners should be a high priority in how NYC targets its Race to The Top funding.
Hispanic New Yorkers are divided on the mosque around the perimeter of Ground Zero. One 9-11 hero says an anti-mosque group is using the issue to advance a “right-wing agenda” on immigration.
Editorial: There are more cases of excessive police force and abuse that do not make front pages, if they receive attention at all. And they must be met with independent accountability.
Hispanic students were one of the groups most negatively affected with New York State changing standardized test results.
Puerto Ricans mourn the death of nationalist Lolita Lebron.
The superintendent of Los Angeles’ school system Ramon Cortines suggests he knows better on educational issues than Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. (During his tenure as NYC schools chancellor, Cortines also butted heads with Mayor Rudy Giuliani.)
El Diario/La Prensa editorial: To set the academic bar higher for public school children without the funding, and thus the resources, to
meet that bar is to write off the future of our kids.
Twitterverse: Former Apple employee says the company has never shown interest in doing business in Puerto Rico.
Judge who gutted Arizona’s SB1070 law receives angry threats.
Some American farmers complain now that there
aren’t enough workers to pick crops and crops are rotting in the fields.