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Cameroon rally targets suspected gay bars amid rise in anti- LGBT ... He was the most high-profile African LGBT rights activists to be killed in two years. No arrests have been made in the case. In the weeks since Lembembe's  ...

Will Hollywood ever have a gay action hero? Report highlights lack ... LGBT rights body GLAAD examined the 101 films made by Hollywood's 'Big Six' studios (20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Sony Columbia, Universal  ...

Soledad O'Brien to Moderate Education Panel Two students will receive a $10,000 Time Warner/ People en Espanol scholarship in partnership with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), and MundoFox will  ...

Health Overhaul Targets Hispanics 14.5 million: The Hispanic population of California. This is the largest Hispanic population of any state, as well as the largest numeric increase within the  ...

The Cousteau legacy strives to empower Latino students to create ... LatinaLista — For one generation, the surname of Cousteau reignites memories of mini subs,deep sea diving and nature's wonders that lie beneath the sea.

South Dakota's truly colorful people The fastest-growing minority in the nation is people of Hispanic background, as 13.9 percent of Americans claim Hispanic or Latino roots. They are also on the  ...

Maria Hinojosa Reflects On 20 Years Covering Latinos “[But] Latinos have the fastest growing prison population , and the fastest growing population detained in immigrant detention centers, and a spike in hate crimes  ...

How Costa Rica Compares to the Rest of the World Along with Brazil and Mexico, Costa Rica is one of the best countries in Latin America when it comes to welcoming foreigners. This assumption is based on the  ...

Which Countries Currently Have the Best Fighters? In those fights, we saw three new world champions from three countries . Boxing is truly a universal game. It's popular in the United States, throughout Latin   ...

Immigration Reform 2013 News: 'One Million Voices' Group Calls for ... Various organizations formed by Latin American countries in California have come together to help the "Millions of Voices for Immigration Reform " coalition take  ...

Peru is second on S&P Latin America list Standard & Poor raised Peru's long-term sovereign foreign currency rating, making the Andean nation the second highest rated country in Latin America behind  ...

Latin American leaders and their love of Twitter Chavez's account still leads the pack of Latin American leaders with 4 million Twitter followers. In a politically divided country like Venezuela, being able to  ...

Argentina govt, conglomerate go head-to-head over media law The judgment, expected in weeks, will be closely watched in Latin America, where several countries have seen confrontations between leftist governments and  ...

The State of Spectrum in Latin America: Only 20% of 2015 ITU ... "By 2015, most Latin American countries will be 50 percent below the ITU recommended spectrum allocation. With the increasing usage of data, multiple devices  ...

Civil Rights Includes Gays 50 Years After March Gay issues can be divisive, especially in black churches. ... The inclusion of gay rights marks an evolution in how Americans think about civil rights as rights  ...

Historian Kevin Mumford talks gay rights, civil rights With the rapid recent progress of the gay -rights movement, including changes in public attitudes, some see parallels with the earlier African - American civil-rights  ...

As Gay Culture Goes Mainstream, So Must Advertising to Gays As gay goes mainstream, marketers need to do the same in planning and buying their media. If brands ... Think of a parallel -- marketing to Hispanic consumers.

New intervention reduces risky sex among bisexual African ... The innovative approach, called Men of African American Legacy Empowering Self, or MAALES, is described in an article in the peer-reviewed journal AIDS.

Task force launches to aid African - American and Latino students San Jose State University's diverse campus does not come without disappointing numbers in graduation and retention rates for African - American and Latino  ...

Spike Lee, Mick Jagger and the James Brown sage We're NOT ... The Stones' music is dominated by the influence of black American music – but those very musicians have rarely been justly compensated for their innovations –  ...

America Is Two Big Steps Closer To Colorblind Justice System For all who believe in colorblind justice — and want to see fewer African - American and Hispanic men caught up in the system — there are two items of good  ...

African Americans and mentally ill make up bulk of city jail inmates Just 6 percent of San Franciscans are African American , yet 56 percent of jail inmates are black, according to a city report issued last week. By contrast, around  ...

Not Just A ' Black Thing': An Asian- American's Bond With Malcolm X ... The brief friendship of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama began close to 50 years ago with a handshake. Diane Fujino, chairwoman of the Asian- American studies  ...

Lee Daniels, Gay 'Butler' Director, Says ' Black Men Can't Come Out' Openly gay filmmaker Lee Daniels recently discussed his belief that gay men in the black community just "can't come out." The "Butler" director sat down with  ...

Some black clergy not comfortable with LGBT movement sharing ... Gay men and lesbians will be represented in the coalition of groups marching ... Black Americans, for example, have been slow to embrace same-sex marriage,  ...