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Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services 20 states in the country have completed congressional redistricting and 22 states have done so with respect to legislative district maps. Although communities of color in southern states are pushing for more equitable representation, partisan mapmakers aim to undermine their influence and legislators are...
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Mark Hedin Ethnic Media Services A new lawsuit against the recently adopted Texas political district maps alleges deliberate, illegal discrimination against the state’s fastest-growing ethnic population, people of Asian American and Pacific Islander descent. Fair Maps Texas Action Committee v. Abbott is the fifth lawsuit Texas is facing over...
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ISLA ALCATRAZ, California – Hace unos 400 años, en 1621, los colonos y las tribus nativas comieron juntos en la primera comida de Acción de Gracias. Pero muchas tribus ven esta fecha fundamental en la historia de Estados Unidos como un día para lamentar las pérdidas de vidas y...
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ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif. — Some 400 years ago in 1621, the settlers and Native tribes ate together at the first Thanksgiving meal. But many tribes see this seminal date in American history as a day to mourn the losses of Native American lives and land that followed. This Thanksgiving,...
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TEGUCIGALPA – Un adolescente está sentado de cuclillas al lado de la entrada de un edificio, su cara manchada de lágrimas mirando perdidamente más allá de la cinta policial extendida a través de la intersección. Adentro, un grupo de hondureños indígenas están reunidos. Han viajado a la capital para...
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TEGUCIGALPA – A teenage boy is crouched to the side of a building entrance, his tear-stained face staring blankly past the police ribbon stretched across the intersection. Inside, a group of indigenous Hondurans are gathered, having traveled to the capital to denounce what they say is the government’s ongoing...
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A new report presents compelling data that Latinos in the United States are performing economically far beyond expectations, contradicting long-held stereotypes. 2021 State Latino GDP Report reveals that their GDP in 2018 amounted to $2.6 trillion. If Latinos were an independent nation, they would rank eighth in the world,...
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El desempeño económico de los latinos en Estados Unidos es impresionante. Un nuevo informe titulado 2021 State Latino GDP Report revela que el PIB de la población latina en este país ascendió en 2018 a 2.6 billones de dólares. Esto significa que, si los latinos fueran una nación independiente,...
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For Tonya Muhammad, who runs Lil Critters Family Daycare in Hawthorne, spring of 2020 was, in a word, “horrible.” The early rush on cleaning supplies meant that she and her husband had to criss-cross Los Angeles to find disinfectant, sourcing bottles of Lysol from a dental supply company and...