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• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 542
  The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a happy Election Day last week, and is already looking forward to the next one. Here are this week’s highlights. TXsharon continues to report from a backyard in the Barnett Shale. Despite all the local and national press on drilling related toxins, carcinogens and ...
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• Grants For Spanish American -To Get Rid Of Financial Hurdles

  
  GetStudentLoanNow.com — Authority: 143
  Hispanics outnumber African Americans yet it is an alarming fact that percentage of them attending colleges and higher education is startling imbalanced. They are still under educated as compared to other minorities according to many sources and still financial hurdles and anti social disparities are considered as ...
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• New, improved Sammy Sosa

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 523
  Yuk. Read about it here.
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• Brevard County celebrates Puerto Rican heritage

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 500
    Celebrate!  There are different Puerto Rican parades in Central Florida. The picture above was taken during the Downtown Orlando parade that took place last April. Photo by Jacob Langston of the Orlando Sentinel.   With music, floats and Puerto Rican flags thousands will celebrate the 13th edition of the ...
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• Puerto Ricos Congress Rep: Let island decide status

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 500
  Guest Writer: Pedro R. Pierluisi Pierluisi, a Democrat, is Puerto Ricos Resident Commissioner --the islands non-voting member of Congress-- in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is also part of the Partido Nuevo Progresista, which supports statehood for Puerto Rico. This first appeared as an Op-Ed piece ...
  3 days ago

• Hispanic Power

  
  Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman — Authority: 432
  "A recent ADL poll showed that 12 percent of Americans hold anti-Semitic views - but among African-Americans, the figure is 28 percent, and among foreign-born Hispanics it is 35 percent.If 20 years from now the largest caucus in Congress is Hispanic, they will have a great deal to say about where foreign aid goes," ...
  4 days ago

• Minorities Now Majority in NY City Council

  
  New York Politics | NYPolitics.com — Authority: 135
  A historic win for a black woman on Staten Island and a Chinese-American woman in Chinatown have helped make a little more election history — for the first time, people of color will hold the majority of seats on the New York City Council. When newly elected members take office in January, the 51-person council ...
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• The Mikvah and "Black" Hairstyles

  
  Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman — Authority: 432
  Id like to respond to a number of issues in this post. For one, I;d like to respond to the number of criticisms of my video post, "Going to the Mikvah with your Nappy Hair":1. Too negative. I hate this criticism. Heehee, hate. I feel like I hear it every time I write something critical of the Jewish community or ...
  4 days ago

• Florida attorney is first Hispanic to head American lawyers group

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 500
  A Florida attorney will become the first Hispanic lawyer to head the American Bar Association in its 131-year history. The ABA is a national group that brings together about 400,000 members including attorneys and judges. The Miami resident, who is of Cuban heritage , vows to bring more attention to the legal ...
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• Why we are not marketing to Hispanics effectively?

  
  Hispanic Digital Media — Authority: 129
  In 1955, Raul Cortez launched Channel 41 (KCOR-TV) in San Antonio, Texas and in 1962, SIN (Spanish International Network) was created by Emilio Nicolas Sr., Emilio Azcarraga Vidaurreta and other visionaries. Since then, Hispanic advertising has only been a matter of language and culture. Today, in the realm of the ...
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• Women and minorities bit players, but gaining in selling to America’s biggest customer – the Federal Government

  
  "600 words by Esther J. Cepeda" — Authority: 115
  "600 Words by Esther J. Cepeda" It’s been about a year since I last wrote about women’s economic advancement and diversity initiatives in the context of The Great Recession. Things were starting to get rough back then and they’re still not great. Despite some nice indicators of national economic health, ...
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• So the GOP won a couple governor seats

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 523
  Big deal. Is this good news for anyone concerned about the direction America is headed in? Not at all. Both Democrats and the GOP are at war with white people, and want to see our white way of life in America destroyed. The only disagreement is the best way to bring [...]
  5 days ago

• Is CNN’s Lou Dobbs playing with fire?

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 500
  Guest Writer: Raúl Ramos y Sánchez Raúl Ramos y Sánchez is a marketing executive, editor of MyImmigrationStory.com , and author of the award-winning novel, "America Libre." You can visit his website at www.RaulRamos.com . I’m sure Lou Dobbs imagines himself a patriot. He seems compelled to defend ...
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• Day of the Dead: Apopka immigrants remember their dead

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 500
  About 60 immigrants got together Monday night in Apopka to celebrate the Day of the Dead. They made offerings of food and prayer to their relatives and friends who have passed away and then sat down to share food and stories that their deceased relatives would have enjoyed. The celebration --known in Spanish as "El ...
  6 days ago

• Orlando Puerto Ricans come together for their island

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 500
  About 50 people attended a Monday night candlelight vigil organized by local Puerto Rican community leaders to express solidarity for their friends and relatives on the island, as Puerto Rico remains mired in an economic crisis that has left many unemployed and has caused a massive protest on the U.S. territory. ...
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• Day of the Dead goes mainstream

  
  "600 words by Esther J. Cepeda" — Authority: 115
  By ESTHER J. CEPEDA Chicago Sun-Times November 2, 2009 http://www.suntimes.com/news/cepeda/1859076,CST-EDT-esther02.article Death is all around us. Well, that much is always true, but it has been especially so around my house, where, since Sunday, my living room has been graced by the yearly addition of a ...
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• Farmworkers looking to increase immigrant vote in rural areas

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 500
  Immigrant activists have been organizing to motivate their community to vote in rural areas in the state as several cities prepare to hold local elections tomorrow. Tirso Moreno, president of the Apopka-based Farmworker Association of Florida, said his organization has been knocking on doors and making phone calls to ...
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• Mass murder in Mayberry

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 523
  Mount Airy, North Carolina was the town which the fictional Mayberry was based on. But it has changed over the years. It used to be a mostly white town; now it’s heavily Mexican. And just like on the TV version, where Sheriff Taylor and Barney’s biggest problem was Otis the town drunk, [...]
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• Orlandos Puerto Rican community holding unity vigil

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 500
  Puerto Rican activists are holding a candlelight vigil for unity tonight as the community grows increasingly worried about the islands economic and political crisis these days. Puerto Rico is mired in a budgetary crisis that has caused the firing of thousands of government employees, sparking a large protest last ...
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• Case Study: Hispanics More Apt To Respond To Mobile

  
  Hispanic Digital Media — Authority: 129
  It’s no secret that younger consumers respond to mobile marketing much more than older consumers, but I came across an interesting case study that dove into the realm of socioeconomic and race-based demographics in regards to how they respond to mobile marketing. Continental Airlines recently ran a marketing ...
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