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Latino Issues' Are American Issues  - This weekend, two issues on the Latino Victory Project's platform are of particular interest to the people of San Diego and the Latino leadership at the ...

Jorge Ramos: Hero to Latinos !  - There are black issues for black people , Native American issues for Native Americans, and of course, Latino issues for Latinos . If you're born into a ...

American Latino issues highlighted at Aspen Institute's inaugural summit  - The Aspen Institute's Latinos and Society Programme launched a new ... for people who represent them and ultimately ensuring that Latinos are at the ...

Are There No National Latino Leaders?  - Then, there was a Colombian-American man by the name of Harry Pachon, who drew national attention to Latino issues, such as bilingual education , political  ...

Report: Latino and African-American Media are Pro-Gay According to the report, "Public Opinion and Discourse on the Intersection of LGBT Issues and Race", a study of attitudes toward LGBTs and studies of Latino and African- American niche media show that pro-LGBT voices far outweigh anti-LGBT voices.

Latin American immigrants are unique in the history of US immigration - The panel, moderated by the  Point 's managing editor, Rachel Wiseman, focused exclusively on immigration from Latin American countries. I attended the event, and at the time, that focus bothered me a little. (I said so during the Q&A.) To me, the issues raised by Latino immigration and Muslim immigration have become inseparable—fears of Mexicans sneaking into the country to take our jobs and fears of Arabs sneaking into our country to blow up our buildings having been adroitly mushed together to create a miasma of xenophobia that defeats clear thought on either front. Nevertheless, the Latino focus gave the evening its highlight. A young man stepped to the mike and introduced himself as a 27-year-old millennial, a member of a generation that has "at their fingertips, the greatest wealth of information available possible," as he put it. And not simply information about our history...

Campus inclusion of African American LGBT Community members to see improvement - According to the LGBT Mental Health Syllabus, a website created by the LGBT Issues Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, or GAP, “ LGBT individuals who are black , Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander or Native American are members of a double minority.” According to the committee, ...

People are advised to throw away any questionable products or contact they ... 27.5% Black or African American, 0.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% Asian, ... View article...

US Minority Groups Think Doctors Don't Care About Them  - A new study published in Social Science Research reveals that African-American and Latino minority groups in the United States are having trust issues with their physicians. These groups of minorities have higher mistrust than white people, according to researcher Abigail Sewell from the University of Pennsylvania.