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Cyntoia Brown will finally walk as a free woman when she is released from jail on August 7. Brown, now 31, has spent half of her life behind bars. Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted Brown clemency eight months ago after being sentenced to life in prison in connection with the…
Hispanic and Latina women have not fared well in terms of health after the 2016 presidential election. A study published Friday using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that there could be correlations between President Donald Trump’s election and premature births, worsening cardiovascular health, sleep problems, anxiety…
The hashtag #RacistPresident trended Monday morning in the wake of President Trump tweeting that the four freshman Democratic Congresswomen of color should “go back” to where they came from. All but one were born in the U.S. Often called “the squad,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rep. Rashida Tlaib…
Tiffany Cabán could make history as the first Latina ever elected as district attorney in the borough of Queens, New York. The 31-year-old public defender from Richmond Hills, Queens, born to Puerto Rican parents, is just one of the new faces in Latino advocacy. Cabán has been actively fighting for…
… Says the working American Latina Congresswoman to the elitist, rich, white administration. Trump tried to belittle Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) with a “young bartender” comment, but it only resulted in a dig at working-class people. He remarked at an NRCC fundraising dinner on Tuesday: “The Green New Deal done by…
“He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening,” wrote Flores, a former Nevada state assemblywoman.
A white man screamed racist hateful speech out of his car window at Janet Sabriu, a citizen and Houston voter on her way to the polls. Alongside Sabriu on the road in the Spring Branch neighborhood, the white man criticized Sabriu’s driving and yelled, “That’s not how we drive in…
A Latina trailblazer,Lisa Garcia Quiroz, senior vice president and chief diversity officer at Time Warner Inc., and president of the Time Warner Foundation, died Friday at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. An advocate of diversity and inclusion, education and the arts, Quiroz created a dynamic legacy….
Maria G. Arias, Comcast Corporation’s Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion, shares how her experience as a woman of color in corporate America helped her build an inclusive culture for multidimensional diverse talent. (Comcast NBCUniversal is No. 29 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) I was a young girl…
By Sheryl Estrada Actresses America Ferrera (left) and Eva Longoria at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 10. At the 2016 Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Sunday night,actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoriaused wit to make a point to Hollywood about its subtle racism:stop consistently mistaking Latina actresses for…
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