Magic Happens When Kids and Adults Learn To Swim. Tragedy Can Strike if They Don’t.
At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their parents in tow.
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Category: Latino
SAVE Act: A New Weapon Against Black and Brown Voters
Since the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, Republicans have worked relentlessly to chip away at protections for voters — particularly Black Americans, other people of color, and women. Those efforts reached a fever pitch after Barack Obama’s historic victories in 2008 and 2012, which sparked what many observers say was the modern white supremacist movement and reignited GOP efforts to suppress the vote.
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Walmart Ends Diversity Commitments as Trump Policies Stoke Division
In 2020, following the global Black Lives Matter protests, Walmart pledged to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging. Its “Belonging” program promised associates they would “feel seen, supported, and connected” and highlighted that diversity would drive engagement and business success. Four years later, Walmart is reversing course, dismantling many of those commitments as the incoming Trump administration advances policies critics argue will deepen racial divisions in America.
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Blacks Feel Erased by Santa Barbara’s Changing Demographics; — Latinos Express Similar Fears
In Santa Barbara, a coastal city of about 89,000 residents, the Black population has dwindled from a peak of 3.27% in 1970 to about 1.37% in 2024.
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Cinco De Mayo: Five Interesting Facts You Should Know About the Popular Mexican American Holiday
To explore the historical significance of Cinco De Mayo, we step back to the origins of the commemoration, share how some Mexican American Californians regard it and trace how it has morphed into the celebrations we see today.
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25 million Black and Latino Voters are Missing or Incorrectly Listed in U.S. Voter Databases
An eye-opening report titled “Surfacing Missing Voters: Addressing Data Systems, Tools, and Engagement Models that Invisibilize Black and Brown Communities,” authored by Miriam McKinney Gray for the Democracy & Power Innovation Fund (DPI), has unveiled a concerning reality: Nearly 25 million Black and Latino eligible voters are effectively absent from voter databases, making them virtually unreachable by traditional outreach methods.
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Daniel Suárez wins the Mexico Series race in LA
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Homelessness Surges, Disproportionately Affecting Black and Latino Communities
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released its 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report, revealing a distressing 12% surge in homelessness since 2022. The report, encompassing the Housing Inventory Count, paints a bleak picture of the current state of homelessness, with a staggering 653,104 individuals experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023—the highest since the national reporting on the Point-in-Time count began in 2007.
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California Latino Legislative Caucus Celebrates 50th Anniversary
The California Latino Legislative Caucus (CLLC) celebrated its 50th anniversary with a black-tie event at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles last Friday. The event was a retrospective awards ceremony, honoring the achievements of the caucus over the past five decades.
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Black and Hispanic Households Consistently Saw Lower Cash Balances and Relative Gains During Pandemic
Black and Hispanic households consistently maintained lower median cash balances than their white and Asian counterparts during and post-pandemic, according to a new JPMorgan & Chase Co. comprehensive Household Pulse study.
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New World’s Tallest Christ Statue Received More Than 130,000 Tourists In 2022
More than 130,000 tourists have visited the Christ since September 2021
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Gervonta Davis Wants KO Of Hector Garcia To Get To Ryan Garcia
“I’m ready to go through everybody that’s in my way,” said Davis.
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