Elaiza AraizaThe New York-based entertainer performed on Thursday and Saturday nights at USHLI’s 42nd National Conference, held February 15-18 in Chicago. Her beautiful rendition of “Por Mi Viejo San Juan” captured the hearts of those in the audience and brought many …
Arguably the most decorated American soldier in the Vietnam War, Specialist First Class Sergeant Jorge Otero Barreto will be honored at the USHLI National Conference at the Hispanic Legends Awards Dinner, at 7:00 pm, Saturday, February 17, 2024. SFC Sergeant …
Set against the extraordinary events of January 6, 2021, Aquilino Gonell’s inspirational memoir is rooted in the joys and struggles of the immigrant experience that have long defined the American experiment Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the …
There are 100 million more guns in America than there are people. Mass shootings are becoming a common occurrence in America. 4,700 Latinos on average are dying by gun violence annually (22 per day) and 13,300 more are being shot …
Latino voter turnout (LVT) increased steadily in every presidential election from 2000 to 2008, and in the 2012 election, LVT exceeded 10 million for the first time. From 2012 to 2020, Latino voter registration increased by 5,000,000 and voter turnout …
In representative democracies, gerrymandering is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create constituencies with undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class. To that definition, one could add race, as has historically been the …
The Afro-Latino population is the fastest-growing subgroup among all Latino subgroups, comprising an estimated one-third of the total Latino population in the United States. While male Afro-Latinos have played prominent and highly visible roles in Congress, academia, sports, and other …